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  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rather -- IX -- 5 R: Marie Fehmer, Juanita Roberts and me. For a little while there was another girl
  • of the year. They included: • enator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. who served as assistant ·ecretal) of lab r during the Kennedy anJ Johnson admin­ istratiom,. and later as a-;sislant to Presid ·nt RichJrd !\ ,on a
  • was the deputy budget director, talked to Ehrlichman or [H. R.] Haldeman. I also talked to [Robert F.] Ellsworth and I think some of us talked to [Robert P.] Mayo, I don't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Symington is placed on Armed Services, Mike Mansfield on Foreign Relations, John Kennedy on Labor and Public Welfare, Price Daniel and Henry Jackson on Interior and Insular Affairs. Kennedy, Symington and Jackson will also serve on Government Operations
  • Kennedy wanted the vice president to represent him, right? C: Right at the independence of an African Republic--Senegal. dent asked me to go along. of two or three people. And the Presi­ We took a plane and a congressional delegation I remember
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. LEWIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Lewis' residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to begin by tracing what you know about the origin of the Task Force [on Agriculture and Rural Life]. L
  • See all online interviews with Robert G. Lewis
  • Lewis, Robert G. (Robert George), 1919-
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 2 (II), 5/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. Lewis
  • INTERVIEWEE: DATE: Robert Fleming, Deputy Press Secretary for LBJ November 8, 1979 PLACE: Washington, D.C. SUBJECT: Fleming's Knowledge of Daily Summaries of the Network \ Television Coverage: During the Period of TET, 1968 INTERVIEWER: David Culbert
  • See all online interviews with Robert Fleming
  • Fleming, Robert H.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert
  • Robert Fleming
  • course whic h continues fo r a n additiona l 42 weeks. Student m 3 agencies o f Govt : AID , Stat e Dept . & Graduates were : John C . Tierne y Steve Richard J . Rosenber g Joh Robert F . Gould-Stat e Dep t Robert Y . Hayashida-Stat e Dept . F.David
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  • [Robert] Taft have a close working relationship? Do you have any insight on that? Y: I think he had a great admiration for Taft. Taft wasn't nearly as conservative as a lot of people thought he was. He was one of the sponsors of federal aid
  • things, little footnotes to history here: when Robert Kennedy died, we lost the liberal vote on the Judiciary Committee. We tried to get Goodell put on in his place, but Dirksen put his son-in-law on-- G: [Howard] Baker. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • for the Presidential nomination. Also, it had been indicated to me, either by President Kennedy or Secretary Di110n--I've forgotten now which--that we in the Treasury Department should extend, make every effort to keep the Vice President informed as to significant
  • chairmen and people at all levels in the party.We wanted to have Democratic governors and other officeholders around the country involved with the national committee. Vice chairmen were named. Governor [Robert] McNair became a vice chairman to be liaison
  • was able to purchase television time and allow Edmund Muskie to speak; 1970 election results nationwide; the Chappaquiddick incident involving Edward Kennedy; a February 1971 meeting between O'Brien, Carl Albert, Mike Mansfield, and potential 1972 potential
  • NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL WASKDC a VHB119 ,f DR HOVARD WJOHNSON, PRESIDENT, MIT CAMBRIDGE MASS 2 WHB120 ,r MRS ROBERT H GODDARD 1 TALLAWANDA ·DRIVE WORCESTER MASS L Q..R RECD VHB l 04 TO 120 • 845P EST TU i 3 L i 4 M GA VU BOOK OF 30 GOVT PD
  • of Senator Kennedy. You may wiah to •end a reply along the line• of Tab B. W. W. Ro•tow Attachments Tab A - Lotter to the Pre•ldent Diaz Ordaz. from Mexican Tab B - &111••t•d letter Pre•idential in reply. Pre•ident (TIA■ SUTIOI) LS 10. 2762 T3/R
  • , or home on leave, and hotel rooms were scarce. I think I've already told you about the time I had Mrs. [Jacqueline] Kennedy there. M: I don't believe so. J: It was when she was a brand new Senate bride. As I recall, Senator [John] Kennedy had already
  • to see him remarry; Horace Busby's employment with the Johnsons; Robert Kennedy's visit to the LBJ Ranch; Hubert and Muriel Humphrey's visit to the Ranch; Lady Bird Johnson's birthday celebration at the Ranch; the Johnson for President headquarters
  • over here on September 15. I will have Bro·mley Smith work on the question of a proper office in the Executive Office Building, where Max has lived happily before. MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON - 2 6. You may wish to know that Bob Kennedy has
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's office, Olney, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: Let's start with 1951. The first thing I want to ask deals with LBJ's election as whip. Do you have any recollection
  • See all online interviews with Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • think at first he had thought of me in the capacity of Executive Director of the Kennedy Foundation, which had just lost its director. I indicated to him that I would not be interested in thiS; that I couldn't do it; that I was very flattered, but I
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Board of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, which is a mouthful; and we gave our first award dinner in Austin, and the awardee was Archbishop [Robert E.] Lucey from San Antonio. And the speaker that evening was Senator Johnson--I believe he
  • of the first announcements President Kennedy made after held been elected to the presidency--and this is in December of 1960--was that he was going to make the Vice President the head of his space advisory council, or something of that kind. Well, when we read
  • on and on and on and on and on, and the President kept him waiting for about an hour and fifteen minutes. Juanita [Roberts] was getting hysterical because she was running out of polite chitchat. You know, Hubert Humphrey just sat there and kept saying it was okay, he was prepared to wait. Hubert
  • helicopter support or something--without a clearance by the White House. I was appalled. When I was a special assistant to [Robert] McNamara, I got a call one day and I also found out that President Kennedy had cut back on Johnson's mess people and what have
  • and three or four others, [Robert] Kerr, sitting there. And I went back to Russell; I got up quietly and went back and said, "Shall we call for a quorum?" He said, "No, tell John to call for a vote." I went back and told Senator Stennis, "Senator Russell
  • might re-enter? That with all that had gone on with the Kennedy assassination, for example, the troubles in Chicago, and so forth, do you happen to know whether or not he ever waivered, whether there was a possibility that he might have come back? H
  • of the Vietnam issues in 1967. There was early on a disagreement between Secretary of Defense [Robert] McNamara and General [Earle] Wheeler over the effectiveness of the bombing. O: Yes. G: My impression is that the bombing became increasingly an issue
  • could see them; contact with the press and efforts to publicize legislative progress; disagreement between Robert McNamara and General Earle Wheeler over the effectiveness of bombing in Vietnam; cabinet meeting updates on Vietnam; LBJ's reaction
  • were picking up, but you couldn't find the expenditures, not through the government expenditures. What was happening was old [Robert] McNamara was putting out--he'd go to a factory and give them a letter of intent saying, "I want so many tanks, I want
  • Excise tax reduction; raising the discount rate in 1965; Robert McNamara's and Charles Schultze's misrepresentations of defense expenditures; Barr's involvement in the opening of a bank in Vietnam; the effect of U.S. involvement in Vietnam
  • Senator Robert Kennedy's body along with seventy-five staff members of the Kennedy family. But as I say, they are controlled by this office. Now, in addition to that, the President has a Jet Star for short hops. This hauls thirteen people and he used
  • Sunday should, accommodationso July Thursday with iews he as to key concerned does int Mission him as appropriate Mro Itinerary: Friday to and private he may desireo 2o to and President problemo He has made advance matters Kennedy
  • rebels with­ out a cause, "with their contempt for the squares of the world," and for America at large, "an old country ruled by old men." The election of John Kennedy in 1960 signaled a seismic shift. A new generation was taking over. The New Frontier
  • iclent From: Larry O'Brien Carding - Letter to LBJ from Seno Robert for courtesy at signin g of civil rights bill Kennedy thank i ng him [2 of 2 (front)] ,-- . ..... .. . # •• - RE El E1J NOV 8 1965 CEN rR L FILES [2 of 2 (back
  • ., Lynn, Mass., 7/23/64. BIHRENS,Robert, 7813 Kanis Rd., Little Rock, Ark., undated. GAYLOR, A. V., 2016 Bragg St., Little Rock, Ark., PM7/24/64. STAFFORD, Lloyd R., 401 Mills, N. Little Rock, Ark., PM7/24/f:A. WILLIAm,Mrs. R. L., 27 S. Wakefield Dr
  • of Japan" of friendship which the Ameri~an people hold for ENDQUOTEQ GP.... 4 RUSK I / GON FI DEM'.P!At V ·FEDERAL · COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION EXec utive 3-36Z0 COMMISSIONERS Chairman. Ros el H. Hyde Robert E. Lee Konneth A. Cox
  • See all scanned items from NSF Files of Robert Komer Box 34
  • Folder, "Japan - January 1964-March 1966 [2 of 2]," Files of Robert Komer, NSF, Box 34
  • Files of Robert W. Komer
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2 G: The first thing I wanted to ask you about was Johnson and Steve Mitchell, because Mitchell is really in the picture here in 1953. B
  • See all online interviews with Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Telephone f or t Mansion, Austin Date September 13, 1960 Activity (includ e visited by) * D Expenditure Code Introduced Sen Kennedy to crowd on steps of Capitol To For t Worth -- see travel activity Introduced Sen Kennedy
  • to other l a nd ft and p eople•, has a wldt1 range of program• directed toward the area ■ mentioned ln your letter. Sincerely~ Richard M. Moo1e )( M r. Robert M. Lelberger, Jr. 517 E . Cedar .Avenue Connell•vllle, Penn ■ ylvanla 15 4Z5 RECEIVED JULJ
  • , surprisingly to him, was run out of the attorney general's office and that he himself had very little control of it. Robert Kennedy was the one who would designate who got jobs and that sort of thing. Any recollections on that? O: I don't recall
  • . I said, "In Southeast Asia we need a policy as to where we're going . What are we there for? What are the conditions for us to leave?" I tried to get Kennedy to see this . I pointed out that in Korea we never knew what we wanted there . we
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968