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Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 1 (I), 6/15/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be the ultimate. F: Did you get to know President Kennedy or Senator Kennedy through Senator Johnson, or was this developed independently? M: I met Senator Kennedy in the 1960 campaign. At the time I was acting as an aide in the campaign for Senator Johnson
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/4/1967 (Item)
  • Concepts ' indicates that on May 4 and 5 the Hon. David M. Kennedy, Chmn of the Commission--Chmn of the Board, Continental President's Commission on Budget Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Concepts met for the first
President's Daily Diary entry, 7/29/1966 (Item)
  • . Ramsey, General Vice President Jerry Whittman, Eastern Frank Heisler, Air Transport Coordinator Bob Mauney - Northwest Robert E. Stenzinger, Grand Lodge Representative Vernon Jirikowic - Research Director i ! William Schenck - Grand Lodge Representative
Oral history transcript, Reynaldo G. Garza, interview 1 (I), 12/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • then in charge of the land division, but apparently was a sort of a liaison man. Ramsey Clark was the first one that called me. F: Did you know Ramsey? G: Yes. And then after that, Robert Kennedy called me, and I was asked to come up to ~Jashington
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . He appointed Governor (John S.) Battle, former Governor of Virginia, Governor (Doyle E.) Carlton, former Governor of Florida, and (Robert) Bob Storey, who was then Dean of Southern Methodist Law School and immediate past president of the American Bar
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • not believe, by the way, that he ever left office because of political pressures from Robert Kennedy or anybody else. He told me months before, oh, I would think at least a year before he had to run again, he said, "You know, my family are not long-livers
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 72, January 2000," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , and Taylor by an appoint­ ment he igned naming one Robert Gamble to be Navy Agent for the port of Pensacola, May 4, 1850.) Eleanor Crook regretted the two sub­ stitutions in a letter to Library Director Harry Middleton: "As with Andrew Jackson, it has proven
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the increase. He said we couldn't let it stand; it would kick off inflation; it would violate the wage-price guidelines and we had to roll it back. [He] told me to talk to people in the government--[Robert] McNamara, [Henry] Fowler, what have you
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or John Kennedy, or Robert Kennedy, if it's really a terrific speech, and he can write the best, you know that Goodwin wrote it before it's even delivered. And that's caused problems for him with everybody that he's worked for. But in any case, we
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . President Kennedy, I think, was equally clear that the assassination of Diem and [Ngo Dinh] Nhu was a terrible thing, but I believe had tended to side with those who felt that there was reason for putting pressure on Diem and hoping for change, without
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 79, September 2002," LBJ Library (Item)
  • rendition of 'Taps." LBJ Library public relations officer Robert Hicks served birthday cake and lemonade to UT students on the campus West Mall. atb. Catherine Robb spoke at the LBJ Grove. 2 From the Photo Archives The continuing Middle East cri
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 5 (V), 12/15/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Robert McNamara came in in 1961 and had some very strong ideas about it. He and I had a number of long visits about the matter. I gave him the information that I had going back to the genesis of the Department itself, when he took over the Department. He
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 4 (IV), 11/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Robert Kennedy went down to Mississippi and I think they met with you when they came back. Can you describe that sequence of events in your. . . ? F: I don't remember too vividly. We were doing everything we could, and step by step that thing
  • LBJ's views on the food stamp program; the connection between civil rights and food programs; President Kennedy's involvement in food-related aid; funding and congressional support for the food stamp bill; Department of Agriculture involvement
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 2 (II), 5/3/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the UN. A: Oh, yes. This was when Kennedy was in office. I was serving in the Subcommission for the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities of the United Nations, and I was hearing so much static about what a terrible country we
  • in 1966 and Robert Kennedy’s involvement; a connection between U.S. support for Israel and Jewish support of Vietnam; LBJ’s Middle Eastern policy; the War on Poverty; the HARYOU-Act Program; Patrick Moynihan’s report on the black family; War on Poverty’s
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • everybody with every other person that was ever out here, but these things that were accomplished after Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon became President, I don't think they'd have gone anywhere but for Lyndon Johnson's big push as a President. And I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , of course, there were ongoing negotiations involving the liberal wing of the party, the [Robert] Kennedy supporters and the McCarthy supporters, to see if they couldn't mount a unified effort on their part to stop Humphrey. As I indicated earlier
  • Support for Hubert Humphrey's nomination from George McGovern and Edward Kennedy, but not Eugene McCarthy; McCarthy's complaint that the Democratic National Convention had not been fair; O'Brien's August 27, 1968, memo discussing the campaign
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : One of the themes that seems to run through the late fifties is politics looking on toward 1960, and the candidates lining up and frustrating each others' efforts in terms of legislation. I was wondering, in par- ticular with regard to Jack Kennedy
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 been
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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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that is a discussion you had with Joe Kennedy in the Oval Office about the New Frontier programs. O: Actually, it was a brief discussion, and it was en route from the living quarters over to the Oval Office. Joe Kennedy expressed some concern about his son Jack's
  • O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led by Howard
Folder, "[Manuscript] Chapters 1-9," Papers of William P. Bundy, Box 1 (Item)
  • were either missing or misnumbered when it was received by the Johnson and Kennedy Libraries. The attached inventory lists those pages and the counts for each chapter of the manuscript. REGINA GREENWELL Senior Archivist September 20, 1994 page
Transcript of Air Force One Recording, 11/22/63 (Item)
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
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  • Special File on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Draft, Summary Remarks to the Cabinet, 11/23/63 (Item)
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
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  • Special File on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Memo, Remarks to the Cabinet, 11/23/63 (Item)
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
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  • Special File on the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Memcon, Moroccan Sympathy on President Kennedy's Death, 11/25/63 (Item)
  • This document was scanned and described as part of a digital exhibit about the days following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. All of our records are not yet digitized. The exhibit documents presented here
  • Memcon, Moroccan Sympathy on President Kennedy's Death, 11/25/63
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • election you joined the Kennedy Administration as special assistant to the Secretary of HEW for Health and Medical Affairs. How did that come about? J: I think I will have to go back and recount the circumstances that led to this kind of situation. While
  • , and Welfare (HEW); 1961 morale in the Kennedy administration; Jones' involvement in the introduction of Medicare; opposition to health program legislation; the introduction of Medicaid by the American Medical Association (AMA); JFK's meeting with members
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, I know about your congressional career. B: You do? G: You've covered that in your first interview. B: Did I? All right, okay. I did tell you that I had gone back to work in Indianapolis, and Kennedy--by that time Larry [O'Brien] had
  • Congressional relations with the Department of the Treasury during the Kennedy administration; Charls Walker; Barr's duties under the Department of the Treasury; Larry O'Brien; conflict between the Department of the Treasury and other departments
Folder, "Diggs, Charles C.," Name Files, WHCF, Box D-183 (Item)
  • r. Hoa9a of BeplPJriiH'IB(91r---­ Wutalai&oa. D. C .. jl/az ' ti. h (CCD:'es. to Mr. 0' en 's of'f1ce before being forwarded to Central Pilea.) §x PA~ I Kennedy t J -~ March 24• 1964 Dear C•puuaa: 11\11 lt aaon1 the first ln1141dy
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • presence as the sudden president of the United States after he had perhaps come to like Kennedy, or at least Jacqueline Kennedy. But Lyndon only regarded him because of his relation to his people, was my impression. And he used to just say, "Don't you do
  • Governor Pat Brown, his wife, Bernice, and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies; India Edwards; friends such as Zendra Pipkin and Richard and Maureen Neuberger; LBJ's battle with Tom Miller over what Austin citizens had to pay for electricity; Luci's
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Clinton is a career civil servant who worked during the Kennedy Administration for Ralph Dungan. He's now the director of housing of the new Communities Program for the Department of Hous ing and Urban Development. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • ; problems in accepting appointments; the Robert Weaver appointment; problem of women appointees; leaking appointments; loans of personnel from departments from the White House; impressions of LBJ as an executive; the Great Society
Folder, "[Visitors - Foreign] Adenauer, Konrad [April 1961] 1 of 2," LBJA, Subject Files, Box 90 (Item)
  • Thomas J. Dodd; General Julius ator Estes Kefauver. 8 Klein; Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; of Defense Robert S. Mc­ Senator Thomas J. Dodd Senator John A. Carroll; Sen• L to R: President John F. Kennedy receives Foreign Minister Heinrich von
President's Daily Diary entry, 5/2/1968 (Item)
  • Miss Mar y Kay Minehart, th e Wes t Virgini a Strawberr y Quee n (Mary Mary Kay) Kay ~ RobertF. Minehar t (mother ) Mrs. Robert Mr. Darrel l Hawkin s , President , Wes t Virginia Strawberr y Festiva l Association Mrs. Ralp h Comstoc k , Director o f
President's Daily Diary entry, 11/14/1967 (Item)
  • Robert Byrd r Secretary of the Treasury, Joseph Barr e Califano-pl * ' e Manatos ' - ' ' . Carl Albert * . Hale Boggs t Sanders G Lawrenc e O'Brien Rank Senato ^ j , Th _ The usher reported that the guest s began arriving at 8:25 and Sen. Byrd wa s
President's Daily Diary entry, 12/15/1967 (Item)
  • . Dean A. McGee, Chmn & Pres. , Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc. of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma reache d in NYC Sen. Robert Byrd, of W. Va. The President to the East Room for THE WmiE HousE Datf 15 December 1967 PREStDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON DAtLY DtARY
Press release, Remarks by Vice President, Conference of Federal Executive Board Chairmen, State Department Building, Washington, D.C., 7/25/63 (Item)
  • the seeking out of qualified personnel in your organization is an integral part of your program. In his first State of the Union Message, President Kennedy spoke of the civil service. He said: "Let every public servant know, whether his post is high or low
Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't know--you see, I think he always perceived Moynihan as a Kennedy person, you see-- G: Did he tie him to Robert Kennedy? B: Yes; New York, Bob Kennedy, all that kind of stuff because--the President chewed my head out at another time when I
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : Actually you got the formal endorsement of the Texas AF of L in the campaign? M: That"s right. And there was one Sunday when Morris Roberts and I thought we were going to get Stevenson to come out on the Taft-Hartley thing. We thought we had him
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 2 (II), 12/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the time schedule was, and he said that I should be out at Kennedy by no later than four o'clock; that they were going to have a plane there; that Luke Battle would be flying up to fill me in on the latest information; and that I would have a small staff
  • Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917-2002
President's Daily Diary entry, 4/3/1968 (Item)
  • with at Robert F. Kennedy requesting Sorensenwith President received a wire 9:09a 4-1-68 from the Senator an opportunity to meet him) Little Lyn out almost immediately. Walt Rostow sitting o n th e President's leftKennedy in the Vice President's chair
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President Johnson and Willard Wirtz regarding the violence down at Cape Kennedy, and the fact that there had been dynamite blasts against a train. I don't know--this may be no more than a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Illinois Central strike; National Independent Committee for Johnson-Humphrey; organizational task force for HUD; Robert Weaver; White House Civil Rights Conference; “Summit Conference” in Chicago; Cabinet posts offered; Demonstration Cities
Folder, "Boggs, Hale (Cong.) 1/1/1965 - 12/31/1965," Name Files, WHCF, Box B-330 (Item)
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