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  • ~dingin Southwestto Cen~~e ~, 1 All federal HousingAgencies IO/i,s-/~ By ROBERT J. LEWIS Siar 61aff Wrlltr , The federal government is preparing to start construction oC another huge building in the Southwest Washington urban 1 renowal area which
  • : Did the President ever entertain the notion that Shriver was disloyal to him? JG: I never saw any sign of that. MG: He seems to have been under the impression that OEO was full of Robert Kennedy supporters. Did you feel that way? LBJ
  • that he was not going to run again and the vacancy was then created when Larry O'Brien resigned as Postmaster General to assist Senator Robert Kennedy's campaign for the PreSidency, I believe the President decided ~hat the appointment to the Cabinet
  • of the Labor Department and Secretary of Labor Bill Wirtz; Wirtz’s temporary resignation; Robert McNamara’s resignation; setting the President’s appointments.
  • , 1969, an article by Charles Roberts dealing with the events leading up to Mr. Johnson's March 31st [1968] speech on Viet Nam. And since its publication, it has created some stir as to exactly how accurate it is. Could you just take that story as you saw
  • Charles Roberts article; Clifford’s doubts; TET offensive; personal doubts about the Vietnam commitment; LBJ didn’t like to hear opposition to the Vietnam policy; 3/22 luncheon meeting with LBJ; 20th parallel memorandum; State Department meeting
  • , 1984 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. BAKER INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Baker's residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 2, Side 1 G: Let's start with the discussion of this Upper Colorado River project and the Echo Park Dam. B
  • See all online interviews with Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • Baker, Robert G.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. (Bobby) Baker
  • during the Johnson Administration; Clement E. Conger (ACDA Executive Secretary), Robert W. Lambert (Chairman of History Project), Adalyn Davis (Assistant to the Chairman), Richard Creecy, John R. Wilbraham, Paul J. Long, Robert E. Stein, Alexander T
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT N. GINSBURGH INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: General Ginsburgh's residence, Chevy Chase, Maryland Tape 1 of 2 G: General Ginsburgh, would you begin by telling us how you came to be associated with the Policy Planning Council
  • See all online interviews with Robert N. Ginsburgh
  • in Vietnam; intelligence input to the Policy Planning Council; the response of intelligence analysts when their advice was not used; Dean Rusk’s relationship with Robert McNamara; joining Rostow on the National Security Council staff in 1966; Ginsburgh’s work
  • Ginsburgh, Robert N.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger
  • Robert N. Ginsburgh
  • John l • Haggartyand General Joseph B. Costanzo Robert s. Folsom Ernest J. Colantonio John J • HsggertyA1bort Harkness, Jr. MaJ• Gen.. Horbert J • Vandor Heido Capt. Alvin C, Berg Col. Frank c. Scofield, Jr. Col, George A. Baldry RECENTU.s
  • the matter further with Mr. Dunne on Saturday. Mr . Dunne was goint to Three Rivers on Saturde\1 morning and asked me to accompany him. On arrival at Three Rivers we first went to the Rice Funeral Home to talk with Mr. Rice and Mr. T. W. Kennedy, Manager
  • . Robert Kennedy was, I guess, Any--? 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • of gift. GENERALSERVICES ADMINISTRATION GSA DC 73-495 GSA FORM 7122 (7-72) NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWALSHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORMOF DOCUMENT CORRESPONDENTSOR TITLE DATE Robert S. McNamarato the President re talking
  • to McPherson, I go back to the Hansion now on Sunday, March 31st, somewhere around noon, and to Horace Busby. I remember Buz shoved some yellow legal pages across the table to me. The first thing my eye fell on was a quote from President Kennedy
  • ; 3.) bring about a "true revolution" by utilizing the private sector of Vietnam such as the Tenant Farmers Union. Robert Murphy and Justice .A.be Fortas agrees with Lodge. sho?ld expl~re Fortas believes we the greater use of smaller military units
  • or someone else. (Interrupti on) G: Babe Kennedy. W: I don't actually remember him living in that garage apartment> It was - a whole lot like [Raymond] Dwiggins has told me many times. He said, "Well, I can understand Barton Gill claiming that he
  • : Have you ever participated in any other similar type of oral history project? A: I've had a lot of colleges interview me on similar projects, and some of the Kennedy people interviewed me on John Kennedy's Presidency and my association with him. He
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Board of Education meetings; Richard Russell; Will Rogers, Jr.; recollections of LBJ as congressman; Albert Thomas; 1948 election; Mike Mansfield; Robert Kerr; Mike Monroney; Clint Anderson
  • . The Kennedy statement at Fort Bragg referring to th e U.S. G over nment's position at the time of the Geneva Conference. 2 . The Taylor Report, 196 1 -- that part which discussed what might be necessary if current moves did not work in Vietnam . 3. The Geneva
  • Sculptor Gilroy Roberts brings the model of LBJ's head for the Presidential Medal; Lady Bird visits Caroline Kennedy's school on third floor of the White House; Lady Bird remembers her mother's death when she was five; Lady Bird spends the afternoon
  • in. the program, since he Hasn't particularly knoHn to the Kennedys. Do you know anything at all about that? t>J: Well, I'm sure it was. I do know that a man by the name of rok. Arch i'4ercey of the Merkle Press told me that he had been in communication
  • on a trip. The one thing that I remember is talking to the Secret Service agent who had gained quite a bit of prominence at the Kennedy assassination, Clint Hill, who was the fellow who was on the second car and leaped on the back of the presidential car
  • by the acquisition of the personal papers of columnist Drew Pearson and former Johnson cabinet members John Gardner and Robert Wood, and the diary of Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson. In its continuing solicitation program the Library has now acquired the papers of more
  • in the East Room ^'w hich we a re a lre a d y obligated fo r , since they w e r e selected by M rs . Kennedy about last Septem ber a n d a lre a d y woven in F ra n ce. And then we look fo rw a rd to w hatever else we m ight a c q u ir e ! H e’ s r e a lly
  • Lady Bird attends meeting about artwork for the White House; diplomatic relations are restored with Panama; Robert Anderson; reception and LBJ's speech for the 15th Anniversary of NATO; Lady Bird mentions individuals attending the reception; Lady
  • ., and, where needad., appropriate legislation 10 that the Federal. Coftl"Dl1eAt ~ move allea4 1n tbia. area ettectiveq and soon." ••• . . ' ' ,' ·• f .. T • ., ' ' ' Robert G. Pl'estemon . .' • t ,. EXECUTIVEOFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT BUREAUOF
  • , I remember he dedicated the statue of Robert E. Lee. Well, I was shocked. I had never seen him before. He went up a little platform that they had built especially, and it seemed like it was agony for him to get along. F: Did you see much
  • . Marshall S. Carter, Deputy Director, plus three assistants (Clinton Conger, Chester Cooper, R . Jack Smith) DEFENSE Robert S . McNamara, Secretary Roswell L. Gilpatric, D eputy Secretary William P. Bundy, Ass istant Secretary for Internat i onal Security
  • programs. Well, he was overtaken by events, and after Kennedy's death and the great push to create th~ poverty program in his memory, things went so fast that Sam's pace and I'll have to say rather narrow views were not needed. Hence Moynihan became
  • to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
  • it if it had been offered to me; it wasn't. F: You were rumored. D: Yes,I was rumored, but I wasn't; he later appointed me on the Advisory Commi ttee. ma~ ~-Tashington. taking it? I found it Did you consider being USIA head under Kennedy? the mos t
  • the literature nobody made a big deal about it at all. Sort of said, "Yeah, that's a pretty good idea." This is the solution to the Achilles' heel problem which had vexed the Kennedy Administration and others up until this time. 15 LBJ Presidential Library
  • [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
  • an everwidening cone into Oklahoma and the Southwest. abiding fundamentalism. covert issue then. There's a deep and John Kennedy's religion was something of a I mean it was a burning brush fire among [what] I guess you would call the religious groups
  • talk history. Sec: [Identifying professor referred to above] H: Well, you see, a minute on Califano. Professor Shea. Well, the Cubans were coming in fast, and when they decided in the Kennedy Administration, to put the people who had been through
  • Adams; gaining minority representation; John Doar; Jim Folsom; Patrick Moynihan; rehabilitation program; attitude toward voluntary or national service systems; Ted Kennedy; definition of uniformity in relation to draft; criticism of lack of uniformity
  • was that at some point during the conversation, LBJ asked [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara to talk to the chairman about arms limitation, and particularly ABM [anti-ballistic missile] limitation. At which point, McNamara 11 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • for LBJ in 1967 following Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's death; Krimer's involvement in the 1967 Glassboro Summit as an interpreter; basic interpretation protocol; LBJ's relationship with Aleksei Kosygin; Kosygin's discussion with Robert McNamara regarding
  • by Robert Knudsen Some 600 members of he Friends f the LBJ Library from around Washington, D.C. gathered in the nation's capital on \1arch l J for the premiere of the film, ''The First Lady: Portrait of Lady Bird Johnson." The e\ent brought out much
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIII -- 2 were. As you might expect I--and I notice [Robert] McNamara as well wanted to include a statement that the Great Society was going forward. Everyone except Fowler now favored suspension
  • had a bargain with the President that he would honor an agreement that I had made with President Kennedy that I would go on vacation in January of 1964, I guess. Then certainly part of the Panama crisis was during that absence, but I do remember being
  • concurrent--I guess what I'm trying to say is that I would have probably gone over to the Civil Rights Commission whether or not Jack Kennedy had been assassinated. As I've been indicating in another context, I often wore a number of hats, and this was a time
  • to remember what was fact and what wasn't fact. M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Cyrus R. Vance, and your official positions in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations were entirely in the Department of Defense, as Counsel and as Secretary
  • Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917-2002
  • a decision concerning the involvemmt of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the Chicago, Illinois, civil rights movement might be made. Stanley Levison, unaccompanied by any other individuals, departed Kennedy International Airport, New York, New
  • . So I was one of them. Pat Kennedy, who was later to head up VISTA and who is now the city manager of Columbia, Maryland, was another. Jerry Bruno was the third one, and you know who Jerry is. Mel Cottone, who was also a Kennedy advance man