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Folder, "Administrative History of the Department of State, Vol. I, Chapter 4, Sections E, F and G," State Dept. Administrative History Box 2 (Item)
  • encouraged this development and said that senior Department officials hoped to compare notes again on Gulf matters when British Minister of State Roberts came to Washington in mid-May. The British decision to give notice of termination of their specific
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fundamental changes have come about, not only in the makeup of the National Park System, but also in some of the policies and guidelines. F: Before we get on to your career as Director, you are on the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
  • Biographical information; National Park System; Robert C. Horn; National Capital Planning Commission; Preservation Commission; Grand Teton National Park; recreation; 1968 Land & Water Conservation Fund Act; Yellowstone National Park; tradition
Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /loh/oh Hight -- I -- 9 H: It was his comments, those that I overheard, that Senator [Robert] Taft was very good to work with. He was a pro in the sense that when certain agreements were struck, for scheduling or anything having to do
Oral history transcript, Roland Bibolet, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you want to recount the story? Sure, what little bit I know about it . really between Senator [Robert] of Texas, My recollection that it was Kerr of Oklahoma and Senator Johnson and it was up to Senator McFarland, would confer with all
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 31, June 13-20, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 17 (Item)
  • does -­ in terms of large increases in U. S. foreign aid appropriations. or -- you decide that we must pre-empt a Congressional move to enact a mandatory reevaluation of tbe aid program, like the Kennedy Amendment which was barely defeated last year. Z
Folder, "Gen PU 1 / FG 731 [Publications / President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity]," WHCF PU Subject Files, Box 33 (Item)
  • Opportunity. The fourth Task Force, on conferences and ublications, Commissioner William Graham. Kendrick, is under the supervision of Working on this Task .Force are Robert Gale, of the Peace Corps, Miss Katherine Ellickson, George 0. Butler. and Ofield
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 29, May 25-31, 1967 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 16 (Item)
  • ~--ABo ,rt_ :-:JT::tI~ "G,RE~:n RL:n~r,~ ~~~~"! · ~:!HEN · YOU- -AP.E HERE;·:. _: - - THA~JK,: ,YOU . VERY '. MUCH · FOR. .·YOUR KIND·.·coMMENT$.·-ABOUT·:~ tHE. '.: KENNEDY · ROUND - NEGOTIATIONS. __:· •.- -L AM ._ SURE -_TH£\.:AGREE!1ENT.JI.ILL: ?R-OVF
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh -7- very much interested in that problem a long time and had worked with Will Alexander in Georgia on the various race relations programs, but then he'd been switched over to the Public Power Division and [Robert C.] Bob Weaver took his
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 2 (II), 10/1/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise
Folder, "January 13, 1965," President’s Appointment File [Diary Backup], Box 12 (Item)
  • find it helpful to talk in theoretical terms about deficit financing, etc. (This, by the way, is different from Kennedy's approach in his Yale speech which aroused fears in the business community.) But you don't regard a -2- $100 billion budget
Folder, "Jamaica, Volume 1, 11/63 - 6/68 [1 of 3]," Country Files, NSF, Box 58 (Item)
  • . Among the other possible successors are Minister of Trade and Industry Robert Lightbourne, a brilliant speaker and politician: Minister without Portfolio Hugh Shearer, Bustamante's personal favorite, who supervises the JLP-affiliated trade union and has
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Cyprus, 1/24/1968, Volume 4, Tab 62," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)
  • PARTICIPANTS: The P resident The Vice P res ident S ecretary of State, D e an Rusk S ecretary of Defense , Robert S . M cNama ra Sec retary of Treasury, H e nry H . F owler Chairman , Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Earle G . Whee ler Di r ector, Central Int e
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • problem because there were five governors and two or three mayors involved. And we had things like--at that time [Nelson] Rockefeller was governor of New York and [Robert] Wagner was the Democratic mayor of New York [City]. In Pennsylvania, [William
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sending [Henry "Joe"] Fowler to see every member of the Appropriations Committee to ask them to hold down spending. He said [Robert] McNamara would need a supplemental of somewhere between five and fifteen billion. Then he said if he asked for a tax bill
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 4/8/1964 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • Lady Bird, LBJ and staff are up late because of the Farm Bill; Lady Bird does office work; LBJ, Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson attend funeral for General Douglas MacArthur; Lady Bird exchanges brief remarks with Robert Kennedy; Lady Bird describes
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 8, January 1 - February 28, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • , the- bad political impact abJ:>oad, the -dam•1• to our own tourlttt propam. and effects on the Kennedy R.o und. . ~ All ol thi• will culminate ln reco~•ndatlona next w•ek tor a Pr~aid•ntlal . 0 mesa•a•. In ad.ditlon, lt looke as tf you would be asked
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 3/16/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • Kennedy walked into his office, the first time after John Kennedy 1 s death. It was Lyndon that suggested that we see Guess Who's Corning to Dinner, and we all went out to the hangar which is completed now, for showing movies, . and very nice, except
  • ; Lady Bird meets LBJ at hangar; park meeting continues at the LBJ Birthplace; to LBJ Ranch house; Johnsons, Lynda & Chuck Robb and the Krims drive the Lewis place; Robert Kennedy announces run for President; "Guess Who's Coming for Dinner?" movie shown
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 6/8/1968 (Saturday) (Item)
  • LBJ & Lady Bird read newspapers; to St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, for Robert Kennedy funeral; the Johnsons pay respects to the Kennedy family; lunch on plane back to Washington; Lady Bird reads newspapers and takes nap; mourners killed
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • enthusiastic about the Diem regime than Kennedy was. Did you get that feeling at all? T: Well, I suppose it might be a by-product of--this has just occurred to me, I hadn't thought about it in those terms--what you might call LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Eugene H. Guthrie, interview 2 (II), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . But there was no activity dealing with ongoing serv- ices to individuals who were retarded. Most of what was being done was being done through voluntary organizations around the country. There was a stimulation of interest that was begun by some members of the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the commitment of American combat troops. G: Even before the end of 1963, there was contemplation of pulling out a thousand troops. M: That's right. did. Mr. Kennedy announced that, the Kennedy Administration I can't remember whether it was McNamara
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • operate, and it's through these sources that one can develop countermeasures. G: I understand. I believe Secretary [Robert] McNamara testified later before one of the Senate committees that he regarded this as a routine patrol. Some people think
Oral history transcript, Ray S. Cline, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ; discussions on Vietnam; LBJ and Vietnam; incidents preceding and following Gulf of Tonkin incident; Robert McNamara; use of intelligence support
Oral history transcript, William B. Dale, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . So I've I was appointed first by President Kennedy in November, 1962, then by President Johnson in April, 1965, and the third time by President Johnson in August of 1967. M: So he did take a positive step in renaming you in the position you LBJ
Oral history transcript, Theodore Berry, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • familiar with the precedents that existed in the form of the Ford gray areas, demonstration projects, or the experiments that were held under the Juvenile Delinquency [and] Youth Offenses Control Act, under Attorney General B: Robert Kennedy? I was aware
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • , and I was a speech writer and there wasn't anything much lower than a speech writer. (Laughter) But I have come on to much more exalted planes. Now, in this library there are some forty some million papers and they are very--I think Mr. [Robert "Bob
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham (Item)
  • Kennedy? G: Where they launch the missiles? L: Yes, at Cape Kennedy they launch the missiles. But there is a small town about thirty miles from that where we stayed the night. Orlando. Orlando, Florida. From Orlando, Florida, then we went to Cape
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 70: Apr. 1‑5, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 32 (Item)
  • . Government'• In readi- lta Kennedy Rowad cut• and it• offer to take other trad•It would be mo•t he&rte11in1 lf a aati•factory aolutlon could be found thro111Ja.cooperatt.- international for• that the Japaae•e Go.ermneat will exert lta maximum toward
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And the whole process began again at the beginning of President Kennedy's Administration. And the mills have ground exceedingly long and maybe too fine--I don't know. But the whole thing has been a tremendous LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 10 (X), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in person, they said, "Yes, sir," over the phone, and that was that. This would not have happened in an older administration, even under Kennedy. Nobody yet had confidence in whom they could trust, but it was an example of a truncated decision-making process
Folder, "Stoner, Jesse Benjamin," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 11 (Item)
  • R. F'IELDSj who st}ll. ted to the m.eeting 9 :axM.Ht.g other things~ th~.. t :a l .1 NS~P m~mbers and white people shnuld keep their guns in order to protect themselves . On October 31; lf167'J Capt.aim ROBERT RAM.SEY» Vice Squad~ IH.llsborougb
Oral history transcript, Elbridge Durbrow, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • there. When you worked in the jungle, you had to put this, that, infiltration and all the rest, cutting off food and whatnot. I had a pretty good idea of what--and I knew [Sir Robert] Thompson down there, too, who set up their whole operation, came up
Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that there ought to be a study of the offices overseas. study. functio~ of cultural affairs The Brookings Institution was asked to perform this The State Department and I think the White House under the Kennedy Administration w"ere very interested
  • McGovern, and Robert McClory; Fulbright and the Fulbright Program; political pressures and the Board of Foreign Scholarships; the Sterling Tucker appointment; cultural exchange programs; cultural exchanges and the CIA; Anthony Solomon; Dean Rusk
Oral history transcript, Paul D. Harkins, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • Maxwell Taylor visited Vietnam in order to report to President Kennedy just a few months before you were assigned to Saigon. Did you have a chance to talk to him on his way back? H: Well, yes, we had him out to dinner, as a matter of fact, and he didn't
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 6 (VI), 5/23/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nash Castro, interview 2 (II), 3/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with conservation matters. She visited Calvin Coolidge's birthplace and presented a plaque designating it as a National Historical Lan~rk; she visited an old wood- covered bridge; she visited the Robert Frost home--or the approaches to it. We didn't have time
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 19, January 19 - February 4, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • Asia. McG. B. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Fri., Feb. 4, 1966, 12:30 MR. PRESIDENT: These pages from a standard book of reference show the general context in which President Kennedy was working on Caribbean matters in October, 1963. m~ rs. McG. B
Folder, "Roy Cohn," Papers of Drew Pearson, Georgetown Files, Box G 267 [3 of 3] (Item)
  • to be on the are being scrutinized by than Attorney General Robert Kennedy, a former antagonist, who almost got into a fistfight together out what it's Joe MoOarthy's end of an investi~ation. His multi-corporate no less Senator staff with Oohn a few years ago
Folder, "Foundation For Action - 1965 Task Forces [1 of 2]," Transportation Department, Legislative Background and Domestic Crises File, Box 1 (Item)
  • ,to the Prealdent JACJr/pw/Jul 29 65 Identical Memo to: Lee White John Con nor Robert Weaver Gardner Ackley Donald Hornig r:_oJW~ ·/J-0 )1.! 1 ~ ...'s'' MEMORANDUM FOR LEE
Folder, "Vidnjevich, Christopher," Records of the NACCD (Kerner Commission), Embargoed Series, Box 12 (Item)
  • ), as checked by IC JACK F..AY RID:F;NHOUR, were negative w;tth respec.t to an arrest of VIDNJEVICH since _las-t reported.· Concerning the arrest of VIDNJEVICH, October 31, 1966, at Kennedy High ·School, previo~ly :t"epqrted, records of the Chicago Police