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Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was not that favorable that he was considered in 1960, for instance. candidate for President. He was not considered by our people as the ideal You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy. When he was selected
  • First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that time in which you're beginning to think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the later one? F: No, I attended the national convention in Chicago in 1960 when Kennedy was nominated. That's the only one I ever attended. I never LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh January 26, 1971 M: You are Judge Anthony Celebrezze, and your connection with the Johnson Administration was as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, which you had actually undertaken in 1962 under President Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • contact after this? R: Here was a great change for me. For one thing, like many others, I had been much taken by Mr. Kennedy's personality and capacity to put things in verbal forms. It was inspiring. I think my wife even more so; she had been so
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • by focusing on your experiences from 1961 to 1965, serving both under President Johnson and President Kennedy. You were appointed the Director of the Bureau of the Census in 1961. S: Yes. G: This is a political appointment? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and that he would stand by these principles that he hoo practiced and expoused (sic) for so many years. B: Did you participate in the 1960 presidential campaign, sir? M: Yes, sir, I did. B: Did you campaign for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket? M: No, sir, I
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the originator, or were you in on the beginning of the socalled Troika and the Quadriad? H: Yes. Let me tell you a little about that. Again, I may not have the exact dates, but these can be checked out from the memos in the Kennedy period. We, fairly early
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • after Johnson and Rayburn 8 The transition from Kennedy to Johnson as President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Oral History Collection Tape Index
Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • which would prove to our ultimate disadvantage. Now my position was public, was well known. When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see that having me
Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , and '64 into '68 I was middle level, and then became a top Troika man in '68-'69 . The Troika was really a Kennedy Administration innovation . I think it was a very important innovation because it put things on a regular review basis, which had never
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
  • ; contact with LBJ and White House staff; Vietnam; Johnson Administration legislative briefings; the Pueblo incident; reflections on LBJ in various situations; comparison and evaluation of the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations
Oral history transcript, Michael V. Forrestal, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • really until President Kennedy came along, when he of course was vice president. I used to see him during those days; because one of my duties was to brief the Vice President on the situation in the Far East. M: That's one of the questions I wanted
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • John Kennedy's. And as I studied it, it occurred to me that perhaps the addendum that was needed to the amendment was one that would put an end to the practice of allwhite [inaudible] juries which had developed in the federal procedure. So I
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connell -- I -- 2 research for the State Department. [He] left Humphrey in about 1958 to go with Chet Bowles over to India, came back and I think became director of intelligence and research under Kennedy. He's now
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or late fifties? T: He became more liberal in the late fifties in the Senate. I remember in 1960, when he ran for president, I supported him over Kennedy at the convention. I made a speech at the Democratic Convention to the South Carolina caucus
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 5 in 1959. We began to make a serious attack on it in 1961. We had a little gold crisis as Jack Kennedy
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Kennedy was made president and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Charles Diggs, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Kennedy's choice of Johnson for his running mate, I was pretty much assured that Stu Symington was going to be the Vice Presidential candidate. Since I was a preconvention supporter of Symington, I felt pretty good about that. When the announcement
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • perhaps you might just begin by indicating when your first acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson or with any of those close to him began . B: Well, actually, some of the acquaintance goes back to the Kennedy years, because I was somewhat involved
Oral history transcript, James C. Thomson, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. THOMSON, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Kennedy Institute of Politics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 M: Let's begin by identifying you. You're James Thomson, and you held several different
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : On any particular issue? B: Yes. I was defeated-- It's a tough thing to say, but the truth of the matter is that it was race. I ran twenty to thirty thousand votes ahead of President Kennedy in the election, but that still was not enough. fifty
  • Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • M: Mrs. Bartlett, you have already mentioned that he was in favor of Johnson's candidacy in 1960. Was he very surprised at Mr. Johnson's accepting the vice presidential spot with John Kennedy? B: Yes. He wasn't sorry, because here was a friend
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is sue on its own ITlerits? R: On the merits. The same way when Lyndon Johnson was President he adopted the Kennedy platform of 1960 and went beyond it; and he sent up some rather extreme public housing and urban renewal proposals to our Banking
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the State Department hierarchy, being in 1961 as, first, Policy Planning Council chief, and then later as Undersecretary for Political Affairs under Mr. Kennedy. Did Mr. Johnson take, that you could see, a very large role in foreign affairs as Vice
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • concerned me greatly because I don't think that it's necessary to have uniform thinking in any political party. I felt that the reason that Kennedy and Johnson had so much difficulty carrying Texas after Jack Kennedy had drafted Lyndon to be his running mate
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to France during the entire time Mr. Johnson had been President? % Yes, I was appointed by president Kennedy to France, and I got there in 2 F W R E H U 1962, and I was happily ensconced there, perfectly prepared and willing indeed to spend the rest
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in particular that were demanding that they be put on the committee. One of them was John F. Kennedy, who said he needed the prestige of the committee because he was getting ready to run for national office. The second was Hubert Humphrey, the whip
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President can have a very substantial influence on the program of an agency like this one. M· How does the impact that Mr. Johnson has compare to that of President Kennedy before him? G: Well, I would say there were no marked differences between them
Oral history transcript, Frederick Nolting, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in your Kennedy interviews, yes, I think it does. The Taylor-Rostow mission, which came in the fall of 1961--and there has been much commentary about that particular thing--they recommended a number of steps, two of which seem to have aroused more
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : Hoover, Eisenhower. First of all after Hoover, Roosevelt; and after Roosevelt, Truman; then Eisenhower; Kennedy; Johnson. six Presidents. topics. This is with five, Naturally all this time we had conversations on various I would not say the same
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of North Vietnam--going back to my visit in 1961 at the behest of President Kennedy, the report which I submitted upon my return to Washington included a reminder that the day might well come when it would be necessary to strike the source of aggression
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and this again is something that is just a historical point, I've always thought that both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower suffered a great serious loss in the first nine months of their first terms. When Senator Taft died the Republican Party control
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in October of ' 6 0 . The man he had named previously, who had formerly been District Commissioner, died before reaching Quito, and so I was the next one chosen. F: I don't want to pre-empt what people working on John F. Kennedy might ask you sometime
  • Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that President Johnson continued the same general advisory team that President Kennedy had and that you've got the sort of continuity that you'd have with keeping on the same team. Another is that Johnson in effect has sabotaged the Kennedy approach to foreign
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been in the Senate there's no question Lyndon Johnson would have been nominated over Jack Kennedy. But Lyndon just didn't fully understand the political realities of that. He thought that by having support of the senators and by working on the floor
Oral history transcript, Thomas K. Finletter, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to President Johnson on the day or the day after the death of President Kennedy that either we had to get in there or the South Vietnamese were going to collapse and that this was the fact. And the decision in effect was made at that time subjectively