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  • Eugene Patterson Sub .i ect (s) covered 15 - 17 Built-in antagonism between the Justice Department and the Civil Rights Cormnission; Robert Kennedy Nicholas Katzenbach; Ramsey Clark; Frankie Freeman 18 '65 report on discrimination in agriculture
  • following my graduation; joined the law firm of Brody, Charlton, Parker, and Roberts, as an associate at the salary of $200 a month, but I got a rapid raise to $275 a month by Christmas. I stayed with that law firm first as an asso- ciate, later
  • Biographical information; work on Credentials Committee at 1964 Democratic Convention; support for Adlai Stevenson at 1956 and 1960 Conventions; JFK’s nomination at 1960 Convention; becaming a State Dept. employee 1965; contact with Senator Robert
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT C. WEAVER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Robert C. Weaver
  • LBJ when NYA set up; John Corson; Frank Horne; reaction to VP LBJ’s approach to civil rights; comparison of JFK and LBJ’s style; LBJ’s knowledge of housing; 1964 and 1965 urban task forces; first acquaintance with Robert Wood; role in formation of HUD
  • Weaver, Robert Clifton, 1907-1997
  • Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Robert C. Weaver
  • said that I just felt he was the only one that really knew where it was, knew how to get those votes. G: Were you privy to any of the dealing between, say, Walter Reuther and Robert Kennedy on that? L: No, I wasn't privy, but I did do a lot
  • Biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; LBJ’s techniques; minimum wage; labor; Jim Suffridge; Dave Dubinsky; 1960 campaign and convention; Esther Coopersmith; West Virginia primary; Arizona delegation; Wyoming delegation; Kennedy machine; advance
  • don't think John F. could do it. With Robert, I'm not sure. G: What I was going to ask is that Robert Kennedy had some involvement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and with your contact there, some of the interpretations that I've seen
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • . and Mre. Robert Kleb rg Mr.. and Mre. Dolph Briscoe Mr. and Mr ■. Lloyd Bentsen, Mr. and Mra. Harry Jerei.g of San Antonio Mr. and Mrs. Warren Jr" Woodward TRAHSFERRED TOSTILL PliOTfl C~Lr-':JION ... ' , •1. > ~ ~ ..' ; : . f
  • on a year's leave of absence from the Library of Congress and work for Senator Johnson, actually transfer to his payroll. This was agreeable with me, and we had lunch with Juanita Roberts, who had been designated to be the liaison on this program, to sort
  • , for instance, that we brought and that reached trial were very few. I don't believe ten cases were tried during the year. B: Could you tell if the emphasis on civil rights activity came, if not exactly a surprise, as something unexpected, to John and Robert
  • , because I was the number two under Frank Wisner and I was the number two under Dick Bissell. As is probably relatively well known, both Allen Dulles and Dick Bissell were let go from the agency by President Kennedy because of the sad outcome of the Bay
  • for much of the three days of debate. 1/16 LBJ reports that Eisenhower’s budget is nearly $6 million above the goal the President set for this year as a candidate in 1951. 1/17 LBJ meets with Walter Reuther, Hubert Humphrey and Robert Oliver. 1/18 LBJ
  • of President Kennedy's task force on health and social security. 'ow he is a· member of the National Commission on Social Security and chairman of the NationaJ Commission on Unemployment Compensation. Professor Cohen·s experience with HEW began in 1961 when
  • a factor in a successful membership drive in Austin which recently brought in almost 600 new members of the "Friends of the LBJ Library." The total number of members of that organization now stands at 2,575. THE LIBRARY WITH ROBERT FLYNN, author
  • at that time. But that established a pattern for all of the period of the Eisenhower Administration and the beginning of the Kennedy Administration, the administration proposal was identical to the previous year's appropriation. It set up a situation wherein
  • funding; Marion Folsom and Arthur Fleming as secretaries of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW); changes in NIH under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy; HEW Secretaries Oveta Culp Hobby, Marion Folsom, Abraham Ribicoff, Anthony
  • with LBJ; doing LBJ’s makeup; LBJ giving to a poor family and the Catholic church in Stonewall; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys and Hubert Humphrey; LBJ’s interest in the media (TV, ticker tape, newspapers) and sensitivity to the media; diversity
  • members would report on current situations . He first called on Secretary Rusk for a summary of developments in Brazil. Secretary Rusk summarized our relations with Goulart, including Goulart 1 s dis cuss ion with President Kennedy, and later, in Rio, his
  • to formally head up this group. B: As I recall it, and as some of these memorandam indicate--and there are not enough that really tie it down--[that group was formed] sometime in the early fall of 1963 as a result of a [James] Patton visit to Jack Kennedy
  • The Wednesday Hon. Hon. Carl Sanders - Atlanta, Ga - the former Governor - to ask her to send flowers and wire to Robert Woodruff - ^BBMBBPBE his wife died, and the President sent condolenc e wire, and flowers to the EBBBBMBBpfunera.1. McNamara Clark
  • : to inspect IDA Cong. Robert Stephens projects and to get a feel for th e Cong. Tom Gettys substance and prospects of the Cong. Seymour Halpern new African Development Bank. Cong. Chester Mize Cong. Albert Johnson Cong. Henry Reuss Cong. Clement Zablocki Cong
  • Cartha Mildred John Senator William D Deke Crockett DeLoach Stegall Macy Robert Kennedy F RECOR D April White G 2 1965 Friday House Reedy Bill Moyers George Reedy McGeo Bill To Bundy Moyers mansion w/ JV to join Mrs . Johnso n i n
  • . Kennedy . Accompanying th e Ambassador wer e Amb . Lloy d Han d and Asst. Secy , o f State Joh n Leddy REMARKS To th e offic e w / Si r Patric k Dean , Amb . Hand , an d Hon . Joh n Ledd y (Oki e too k pix ) McGeorge Bund y Out o f office an d i n mjdr's
  • , 1964, AT 12:00 NOON IN THE CABINET ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE The President of the United States, Presiding Speaker of the House of Representatives AID David Bell, Director ATTORNEY GENERAL Robert F. Kennedy CIA John A. McCone, Director DEFENSE Robert S
  • of Delegates of the ABA ! Hon. Emory H. Niles, Baltimore, Md. , liaison member of the Board of Governors r~~ ^ of the ABA _____ MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE: __ ,„________. Robert Ash, Washington DC | Sumner H. Babcock, Boston, Mass ___ _____ __, _________ |j _John W
  • Clark. H e then proceeded down the lin e shakin g hands with FBI Director Hoover , Chie f Justic e Earl Warren, an d New York Senato r Robert Kennedy . He was introduce d to the audience by Solicitor Genera l Thurgoo d Marshall who also sa t o n
  • troubled. He wasn't his same old humorous self that he normally was. But he [was] trying to make up his mind whether or not he would approve additional military men being sent to Vietnam. He said, "[Robert] McNamara tells me it's the thing to do
  • . It is unfortunate we are there, but throughout history we have had to face this situation where aggressors try to capture their enemies. Eisenhower told Kennedy this would be his biggest problem. Kennedy attempted to solve the South­ east Asian situation
  • , nineteen books by or about Robert Kennedy that were to be published in the fall and spring, before the elections of 1968. And that called to my attention [that] I hadn't seen anything about Johnson--particularly pro-Johnson; obviously there were books
  • don't think most presidents do. I mean, I think that's one of the reasons--they may do it once or twice early on, but I can remember [John] Kennedy once literally walked--the only meeting I ever went to, when he was President, with him, was over a covert
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 16 and Robert Kennedy was then counsel. I'm not very clear what this was all aimed at--whether
  • Policy; Clarence Randall; Chad McClellan; Henry Thurton; Sherman Adams; Stanley Nehmar; Henry Kearns; President Kennedy; Census Bureau; Stanley Ruttenberg; Assistant Secretary Weaver; textile structure; meeting-labor textile advisory commission; White
  • the Kennedy Administration, Goodwin was an assistant to Assistant Secretary Martin, who was in charge of Latin America. First he was in the White House. He had run into a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • to go head-to-head. The 1960 contrast between Nixon and John F. Kennedy illustrated Marshall McLuhan's dictum about the risks "hot" personalities face on television when confronting "cool" personalities. And, under the klieg lights, JFK was definitely
  • to go head-to-head. The 1960 contrast between Nixon and John F. Kennedy illustrated Marshall McLuhan's dictum about the risks "hot" personalities face on television when confronting "cool" personalities. And, under the klieg lights, JFK was definitely
  • - Discussion on Vietnam, Robert Kennedy, Eisenhower, Alliance for Progress, role of ror. 42. 9 December 1963 - Briefing. General revi·ew. Press, McNamara, Vietnam. I 43. 13 December 1963 - Introduced DDCI, Peer de Silva., reviewed checklist. Discussed
  • me home, because we had said that it would be tried for a week or so. And then I also figured out fairly early that I felt that I could understand him. I remember I guess one of my first weeks there when Juanita [Roberts] and I were working in what
  • Duties as Secretary, LBJ’s Vice Presidential days, Trips with Johnson, Fehmer’s opinion of LBJ’s relationships with the Kennedys, JFK’s Assassination and aftermath.
  • : Charles Corkran, Joan Kennedy, Tina Lawson, Walt Roberts, Cary Yarrington, William Thompson-Wa~hington o//ege Photography: Paul Ch va/ier, Frank Wolfe, J. Tyler Campbell-Washington Staff Assistance· Yolanda 8001er, Lou Anne Missildine 12 College
  • bill was originally drafted, and as you know, passed in 1935, national health insurance was in it because of the insistence of Senator Robert Wagner of New York, who had introduced the first national health insurance bill in the Senate in 1938
  • , "I'd like to speak to Lyndon Johnson." but he's out. I said, "Oh, I'm sorry, But may I take a message?" And this person said, "This is Jack Kennedy." CTJ: Don't (Laughter) But I want to ask, out of all of those good, wonderful vignettes that you
  • of rofurb!shing of the image o! the US aa having a second :revolutlcmary wind. as a country of tho future not the paat. We've lost a lot of ground in Asia and A&lca (and Europe too) slnce Kennedy's death mostly through force of drcumatance. But whatever
  • See all scanned items from NSF Files of Robert Komer Box 34
  • Includes suggestions for LBJ’s acceptance speech at 1964 Democratic Convention and for 1965 State of the Union Message and small amount of material on transition following assassination of President Kennedy
  • Folder, "Johnson Administration - 1963–1966," Files of Robert Komer, NSF, Box 34
  • Files of Robert W. Komer
  • on it. So he knew where I stood. Well, now, Hobart ran with the ball on that. He loved it. Because first Hobart-(Interruption) With due respect to all of them--see, my only role in all of this business with Johnson and Kennedy was just one thing: can I sell
  • the selection. F: Did anyone work for Mr. Johnson who didn't work closely with him? T: Well, you would work for him, but not every day. Like Mary Margaret was right in his office, and Juanita Roberts--of course, she's his secretary now-- and she was in his
  • than a hard-nosed politician who knew the ropes of getting the various commitments. M: Did it seem to you at the time that the Kennedys had already--to use the vernacular that has been expressed--had sewed up the delegates in the convention? G