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Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : November 29, 1977 INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT OLIVER INTERVIEWER : MICHAEL L . GILLETTE PLACE : Mr . Oliver's office, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 G: Do you want to start from the first again here? 0: This tape I consider to be highly confidential
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  • Oliver, Robert
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert Oliver
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the difficult periods that made it possible--even if Mr. Kennedy talked about going to the moon--for us to actually get to the moon. I particularly remember that night because the one who accompanied us on the walk was Mary Margaret [Wiley Valenti]. Somewhere
  • to Mexico, Robert Hill; LBJ's regret over accepting the vice presidential nomination; Corcoran's campaign strategies; the increased availability of a college education.
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the Senate Committee on Finance, two of the most prestigious and important committees in the Congress. This brought me into contact with Congressman [Robert L.] Doughton, who was the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the 1930s, ultimately brought me
  • [For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a strong women's division, and they really did wonderful work, but if I may be perfectly frank, I will say that the entire committee fell to pieces when Jack Kennedy became President, and I'm afraid that my dearly beloved Lyndon Johnson continued
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the President, and they helped Robert in the state. But Johnson had plenty of good Kennedy men working for him--O'Donnell and his brother Warren were both running the Johnson campaign and working in it very well. F: Did you have any difficulty at all
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • both of us had been nominated by President Kennedy before the assassination and gone through and been submitted to the Senate from the relevant committee, and our appointments were actually confirmed by the Senate, these two appointments, at 1 :00
Oral history transcript, Ivan Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy had me there on his ghetto housing bill that he proposed around 1966 or 1967. B: That would be Senator Robert Kennedy. A: Senator Robert Kennedy. And I became, more or less, a pretty con- stant visitor to Washington, being a big supporter
  • Evaluation of LBJ's Senate record; political background prior to election as Mayor of Atlanta in 1962; work with President Kennedy and request to testify on behalf of Civil Rights Bill; civil rights programs in Atlanta; support of mayors of America
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy had me down to Georgetown after he was elected and wanted to talk about some things, he asked me if I knew Robert Lovett. And I said, oh, yes, I did, and he was very surprised that I knew Bob Lovett. Well, hell, Bob Lovett had been undersecretary
Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1969 HlTERV I E\'JEE: ROBERT ROOSA INTERV I HJER: DAV 10 McCOMB PLACE: 59 Wall Street, New York City Tape 1 of 2 M: First of all, I'd like to know something about your background. Where were you born, when, where did you get your education? R
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  • Biographical information; Federal Reserve Bank; new economics; Treasury Department; Organization for Economic Cooperation; Organization for European Cooperation and Development; working parties; Group of Ten; ring of swaps; London Gold Pool; Robert
  • Roosa, Robert V. (Robert Vincent), 1918-1993
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Vincent Roosa, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb
  • Robert Vincent Roosa
Oral history transcript, Cecil Stoughton, interview 2 (II), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Service, the doctor, and I were in the basement; everybody else was upstairs. know what they were doing. I wasn't invited. I don't I didn't go up. What we were doing was waiting for the proper time to arrive. As you recall, the Robert Kennedy
  • the campaign and convention of 1964; Okamoto's return as White House photographer in 1965; trip with Mrs. Kennedy to England for dedication of a memorial to JFK; Stoughton’s final days as White House photographer; White House photographers and receiving
Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Was that by President Kennedy? B: Yes . M: Focusing on that work for a few moments : Was there a difference in the way the Kennedy Administration operated as compared to the way the Johnson Administration operated? B: In regards to the Fine Arts? M : In regard
  • and Lady Bird; role of Juanita Roberts; replica of Oval Office; exhibits; Lady Bird's role in planning the Library
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • serving in this position since 1961. Is that correct? "\1: Since July 1961. M: You were an appointee, then, of President Kennedy and served through the entire Johnson Administration. W: Yes. ~II: For many years you were associated IVi th various
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson in that campaign? W: Well, as much as one would see in any campaign, unless you are directly involved in traveling with the campaign. I think, at that particular point in time, I probably saw more of President Kennedy, because he seemed
  • fundraising dinner at the Ambassador Hotel; housing and Proposition 14; Pat Brown; Wasserman’s appointment to the executive committee of the Kennedy Center; LBJ’s ability to be a 'real' person; visits to the Ranch; 1968 election; the 'fatigue factor
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Robert E. Jordan III Subject(s) covered 18,19 Events in Dallas 19,20,21 Warren Commission Report 21,22 Autopsy on Senator Kennedy 23,24 23,24 James Rowley Rufus Youngblood 24
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  • Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy" confidence
  • Jordan, Robert E., III
  • Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
  • Robert E. Jordan III
Oral history transcript, Leon Jaworski, interview 1 (I), 12/23/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by them on all Texas appointments. M: This went on through Lyndon Johnson's term. While he was Vice President, did you not do some work with the Attorney General's office? J: Yes. M: And Robert Kennedy? J: Yes. M: Did you have any connection
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . M: Stayed on, yes. W: This suggestion was made by the Post. It came as a result of Robert Kennedy and the Justice Department raising some questions about the District affairs and not being able to get a satisfactory answer in his opinion
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Jones -- III -- 14 when he says to call a cabinet officer, to do it, and anytime I needed to get him to come in personally and not to Juanita Roberts or someone else. He wanted to deal directly. So access to him was always free
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • gave rise to the credibility gap. I had been seriously considering leaving the postal service before President Kennedy's assassination, and I continued pursuing various job offers after his death. One day, for some reason or another--I can't remember
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • I've maintained close contact with the Kennedy-Johnson administrations. M: You might make a statement about Brookings Institution in general and its purpose. P: Brookings Institution is a nonprofit research organization that is privately LBJ
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 24 (XXIV), 2/6/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • crises that kept jumping up. I don't think he particularly relished those foreign policy crises although in my view he handled most of them rather well. G: He sent Robert Kennedy to help resolve the hostilities between Malaysia and Indonesia. Do you
Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --then United Press--worked as a radio writer for many years, and then started covering several departments-- F: Did you see--? T: --and then started covering the White House [at the] start of the Kennedy years, January 1961. F: When did you first
Oral history transcript, Marie Fehmer Chiarodo, interview 3 (III), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • certainlyC C: Right in the middle. G: All right, well, what comes first? C: God, the awful campaign trips. I can't believe it. G: What about the selection of the vice-presidential candidateC C: Oh, my gosh! G: Cand ruling out of Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Dougherty -- II -- 2 and the resolution in condemning perversions of the agreement validated the agreement. When [Senator Robert] Taft had brought up the point, the resolution was dropped. It's just like
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and inflation, hut ~orked more generally in areas of forecasting overall economic outlook, concentl'ating ;leavily on prices, inflation, this of proi.:;:, ::1. SOy't fl,1: v~a.ges, Compared to the Kennedy-Johnson Administration; can you give me some
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Mills -- II -- 3 which was a pretty strong endorsement of it, I thought. I thought the time had come to pass it. I don't think we could have passed it in 1961. I told Kennedy that, and he agreed, I guess. He never did really press me about it. G: Did
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DATE RESTRICTION 1130170 A 1/30178 A 8118170 A .. FILE LOCATION Robert W. Komer Oral History Interviews RESTRICTION COCES (AI Closed by Executive Order 12358'governing access to national security information. (B
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  • Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert Komer
Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT WHITE INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • White, Robert M.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert M. White, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert M. White
Oral history transcript, A. Leon Higginbotham, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . That of course was kicked off finally by Robert Kennedy's assassination. Where did you enter the picture? H: Well, I was playing tennis, and when I got home someone said I had gotten a call from the White House. It was again vague. About three minutes later I
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 4 (IV), 3/12/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Do you remember anything of his visit during that time right after the convention? They nominated Stevenson and Kennedy for vice president. Okay. Also in that month Price Daniel ran against Yarborough for the Senate, and it was a very close race. I
  • Roosevelt; LBJ's first plane; the Lucy B crash in 1961; an October 1959 flood near the Ranch; LBJ's decision to accept the vice-presidential nomination in 1960; August Busch and his gift of exotic animals; Tommy Taylor's death; Robert Kennedy getting hurt
Oral history transcript, Everett D. Collier, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the President wanted to see me. And when I went in to see the President he had gone into that little-bitty office that had once been a bathroom, but President Kennedy converted into a very small relaxation room. As Jack and I went down the corridor toward
Oral history transcript, Mildred Portner, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This covered a span of about eighteen years. The first contact that I had with the Johnson office was in early March, 1958, and that was through a telephone call from Mrs. Juanita Roberts, his personal aide and secretary. She asked that I make time
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION Narrator Robert Forbes Woodward Address 3224 Harriet Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota Biographical information : government official b. October 1, 1908, A .B ., Univ. of Minn ., 1930 ; student George Washington U ., 1941
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  • Woodward, Robert F. (Robert Forbes), 1908-2001
  • Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert F. Woodward
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a phone you could pick up, and it would ring immediately, and he would answer it, because he knew whose phone it was. There wasn't any such thing as an emergency, at least from our side. Now on Juanita Roberts' side they may have had the right to walk
  • support for civil rights legislation; 1965 legislation topics; the possibility that Robert Kennedy would be asked to run for the vice presidency; Wilbur Mills; LBJ visiting President Harry Truman; Homer Thornberry's and James Coleman's appointments; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • side of the street was totally wrecked, the other side wasn't touched. G: Anything on the Kennedy assassination? R: You mean Bobby? G: Yes. R: The main thing I remember, I'd gone to bed early that night and Sam Houston called me. He was watching
  • Reedy’s return to LBJ’s staff; preparations for 1968 campaign; March 31, 1968 speech, Washington riots; assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy; Reedy’s book on the presidency; maritime strike; Sam Houston; last year of LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, Adam Yarmolinsky, interview 2 (II), 10/21/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Shriver's selection? Y: No. No, again, as I think I spelled out in that article of mine you've got ["The Beginnings of OEO"], I was aware of the fact that there was a task force under Kennedy. task forces. I guess there were several I was vaguely
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Fred Korth, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Interviewer: Paige E. Mulhollan Date: M: March 7, 1969 Let's begin, sir, by identifying you. You're Fred Korth, and your most recent government service was as Secretary of the Navy from early in 1962--January--until October of 1963 in the Kennedy
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Harold H. Saunders, interview 1 (I), 9/15/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the analytical-- G: Who was that? S: Robert Amory, who later on came over to be one of the three top people in the Budget Bureau. But Allen Dulles was then the director of CIA, too. I got a good overview of how CIA fit into the governmental picture
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was [Robert] McNamara's lawyer for those hearings. You may recall that as we saw the major issue in the hearings, the issue was whether or not the civilian leadership in the Pentagon and President Kennedy, at that time, had the right, in effect, to censor
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT J. McCLOSKEY INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: Ambassador McCloskey's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 G: Could you give us an outline of the occasion upon which you entered the Foreign Service? What led to that? M: I had
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  • McCloskey, Robert J. (Robert James), 1922-1996
  • Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger
  • Robert J. McCloskey
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT FINCH INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Finch's office, Pasadena, California Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Well, I was giving you a [inaudible]. G: You were talking about the relationship between Lyndon Johnson
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  • Finch, Robert H., 1925-
  • Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert H. Finch