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Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT CALVERTY INTERVIEWER: DAVID McComb PLACE: Chief Justice Calvert's office in the Supreme Court Building, Austin, Texas. Tape 1 of 1 M: To start off with, let's start with you. Where were you born, when and where did you get your
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Oral history transcript, Robert W. Calvert, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1971, by David G. McComb
Robert W. Calvert

Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. G: Sure, between LBJ and RFK. Now, Robert Kennedy met with the President shortly after that March 31 speech, I think on April 3, the day before this trip to New York, and evidently commended him on his speech and commended his statesmanship
to work on the Robert Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign; turnover on LBJ's staff.

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the relationship between the President and Attorney General Kennedy during Robert Kennedy's campaign for the Senate from New York? Did he talk with you? L: Did the President talk with me? F: Yes. L: No. F: He did come up here and work for him. L: I
in Washington D.C.; Lasker’s relationship with Mrs. Johnson; supporting Robert Kennedy; encouraging Mrs. Johnson’s interest in beautification and health; beautification projects in Washington D.C.; National Institutes of Health and clinical research goals; Nash

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

, though? B: If she did, she didn't show it any way that I could judge her. G: The story is told that there were two meetings between Robert Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and his people, among them Sam Rayburn, and during one of those meetings he [Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Courtney A. Evans, interview 1 (I), 3/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

question that future scholars are going to note and would probably wonder at the omission. During Robert Kennedy's tenure as Attorney General, there was a rather well publicized dispute between him and J. Edgar Hoover over electronics surveillance. E

Oral history transcript, Hector Garcia, interview 1 (I), 7/9/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

, where .we went ahead and had a meeting. At this time we told Robert Kennedy that we would like to work for the candidate, John F. Kennedy, but we would work at it by ourselves. That we didn't want to work under any state Democratic setup because we

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

perceived to be some foot-dragging. I think one member of the original cabinet of President Kennedy that had difficulty with it was the Postmaster General, Ed Day. Ed talked to me on a number of occasions and to others in the White House and he felt
to the Vatican during JFK's administration; difficulty managing the great number of lower-level appointments; Robert Kennedy's proposal to raise the salary of Justice Department lawyers; civil rights and the Democratic Party in 1962; Southern Democratic

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh I INTERVID~ INTERVIHJEE: ROBERT
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Strauss, Robert Schwarz, 1918-2014
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb
Robert S. Strauss

Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

'? We moved up here the first of January of 1961 and served in the Vice-President's office there. As a matter of fact, he was so short on personnel that the Army recalled Juanita Roberts and me to active service. She was a major in the WACS. and I

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

involved, as I see it, to do all these things. B: At that time whom did you deal with in the administration? Did you talk in those years, beginning in 1961, directly with the attorney general, Robert Kennedy? H: No, we were dealing more with John Doar
white leaders in Civil Rights: Hodding Carter III, Bill Reedy, Claude Ramsey, Father Phillips McCloone and Father William Morrissey; SCLC base in Alabama; opinion of Kennedy men; LBJ’s administration involved in voting rights, public accommodation

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

during the Johnson Administration, as indeed during the Kennedy Administration as well, was as executive secretary of the National Security Council from 1961 to 1969. S: That's correct. M: You had been a career Foreign Service officer in various

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 4 (IV), 8/25/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
for vice president; Judge Robert Hall and the Alabama delegation; Lloyd Hand and the JFK appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston; the 1960 campaign in Texas; LBJ helps Henry B. Gonzalez, brings Cantinflas to San Antonio; the special senatorial

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, the President asked me to serve as a member of the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. S: And, to this moment, today, you are still sitting on that commission? LBJ Presidential Library http
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Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
Patricia Roberts Harris

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

: This is extensive background, and I'm very sorry I must out of time--your time--limit some of my questions more to the 1961 area of your service in Defense. Would you briefly define for me the responsibilities of deputy secretary of defense? N: When Mr. [Robert

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

said, when I spoke about [John F.] Kennedy's support in the Senate--I said I thought a number of Senators wanted to support Kennedy and he said, "Yes, but the trouble is he's got all of the minnows and none of the whales." The whales generally sat

Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

-or-less the final break when Robert Kennedy ran for the presidency? C: I'm not sure that you've put the question in the right way or that I understand it. Do you want to try that again? M: Was there something that really brought it into the open
Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-hand now. I guess I was working for [Robert] McNamara by this time. Yarmolinsky had literally moved out of the Pentagon. Bob would not let him. He wanted to keep his hat as special assistant to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense and McNamara

Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. I have There were others the same day. That evening was the evening that Senator [Robert] Kennedy was wounded in Los Angeles, and the following day the activities were interrupted for that reason. F: Yes, I remember. T: And although we finished

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the preliminary work that had been done in the Kennedy Administration that I thought possibly the President wasn't familiar with. The pbverty program very essentially started out by having Robert Kennedy chair an administrative committee of cabinet or sub-cabinet

Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. It was, interestingly, at that convention that a then-young Senator named John F. Kennedy received his first nationwide attention. known him earlier, not really known him, but had met him. I had I had read his book, Profiles in Courage, and thought it magnificent. I

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

] Shiel of Chicago, in turn a friend of Bishop [Robert Emmet] Lucey of Texas. I had never met Johnson. But I had known well his chief Aubrey Williams, who was also a Texan, who was the [national] head of the Youth Administration. One day Aubrey Williams
with the Kennedy family; Joe Kennedy's proposal to make LBJ run for president in 1960 with JFK as his running mate.

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

"This is it."? H: Well, I didn't have any advance notice. I had been talking-- Well, first of all, you know, I came up to see Robert Kennedy, who was then Attorney General. I did not see him; I saw Mr. [Byron] White, who later became Justice White. He was very

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the beginning and the recognition that he would receive as vice president, and he said that with great emphasis. There were no particular stories to the contrary but there had been stories that he and the Attorney General, Mr. Robert Kennedy, were feuding

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That was the critical difference. G: Was there anything in the staffing up of the committee that reflected the friction between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy? F: No. No, not particularly at all. Later on there were. You need to realize how the friction evolved

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ib), 12/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

there was genuine liking between the two men. B: There has been a good deal of speculation, and probably will continue to be a good deal of speculation, about the relationship of the Kennedy staff to Mr. Johnson--Robert Kennedy and President Kennedy's various

Oral history transcript, Homer Thornberry, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

witnessed that fight between Kennedy and Kefauver for the vice presidency? T: Oh, yes. F: How much did Senator Johnson show his preference to the Texas delegation in I was very much in that. that. T: Let's see if I can remember it. You know at one
presidential campaigns; Senators Kefauver and Kennedy for the vice-president; LBJ’s first heart attack and recovery; Senator Ralph Yarborough; LBJ to running for vice-presidency; JFK; opportunities for Thornberry to become a federal judge; limitations

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--to practice law; ran for the legislature from Dallas County that year and was elected. F: Was that Robert Storey? S: Yes. R. G. Storey. And served in the legislature for three terms through 1958, and I also practiced law at that same time. Ran

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in 1964? M: No, I read these stories with a great deal of interest, but-I couldn't detect any such movement. F: Did you see any overt evidence of the schism between the Vice President and the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy? M: No, I couldn't see
Biographical information; nomination of JFK and LBJ in 1960; Manatos’ work as Senate liaison in Kennedy and Johnson administrations; House’s receptivity to administration’s bills before and after the 1964 Congressional elections; head counting

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

trader. I think it was the Populist bias against restrictions on the free flow of goods. He believed very strongly in free trade and had a magnificent record in the area. The Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of his responsibility. B: Did the activity on the Commission change much when Cliff Alexander took over as chairman? H: Let's keep the order. ing byplay on that. When Mr. Roosevelt resigned--there's a little interestYou see, Senator Robert Kennedy had

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LX -- 4 two Kennedys joined with the Republicans--[Robert] Griffin who is a very partisan animal--to try to stick it to Johnson was in his mind. Then, I guess on the twenty-eighth, we had a bipartisan leadership

Oral history transcript, James Davis, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be in line and held give them the spoon and say okay, taste it. We thought, at least I thought, Senator Russell was a very good man and a good friend of the President. G: Now, Senator Robert Kennedy came out that fall, too, to go hunting. 0: Yes
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of Education. Therefore when Kennedy started the Peace Corps it wasn't surprising--to me-that he would ask somebody like me to take an interest in it. G: Sure. The material about you also mentions your working with juvenile delinquency, largely through your
; how the War on Poverty came to include more than Community Action; an Rowland Evans and Robert Novak column in the Washington Post indicating that Shriver might be LBJ’s 1964 vice presidential running mate and reaction of the Kennedy faction

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

: July. At least, I left at the end of July. Previous to that you had been director of the Bureau of the Budget under the Kennedy administration, and that had been your only government service since the time of the Truman administration. Is that correct

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, "Lyndon, that's not true at all." He had that feeling. He worked on it. He thought the New Dealer, the young New Dealers, who were an arrogant bunch-I used to say about the Kennedy crowd, "I've seen nobody as arrogant in Washington since we grew up

Oral history transcript, Milton P. Semer, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

field during the fifties. And in 1961 the late Senator [Robert] Kennedy mentioned to some of us that the largest single domestic success in the domestic legislative field was the Housing Act of 1961. Because Kennedy had trouble getting his domestic
; the Model Cities program; the development of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Robert Weaver's involvement; legislation involving Demonstration Cities; how Robert Weaver was named secretary of HUD and the first African-American

Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

for the purchase of the properties of Memphis Power and Light Company. Then I was called by a member of the staff at the White House and asked if I would be interested in being interviewed by Senator Robert LaFollette in connection with his need to have a general
Biographical information; Tennessee Valley Authority; Reconstruction Finance Corp; Robert LaFollette; Wendell Wilkie; Commonwealth and Southern Utility Group; Leland Olds; Adolph Berle; St. Lawrence Seaway Project; War Production Board; John Lord

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

his way, was the Attorney General, Mr. Robert Kennedy, who came really racing through, neither looking to the right nor to the left to get to the back of the plane. The only thing that I noticed was that I remember that he passed President Johnson

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of unease or ill will in that area? H: You heard talk about it, but I can't cite you any examples that came to my personal attention. B: I'm not sure of the exact years here, but later on as senators both Robert Kennedy and then Ted Kennedy were also

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[Robert F. Kennedy] Stadium? C: --named RFK Stadium RFK Stadium. We ought to cover that. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

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