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Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • on several projects for President Kennedy. In the mid-fifties I had also come down and met President Eisenhower on an anti-inflation program that the Advertising Council was running. But I found being one of fifteen young men seated in two rows
Oral history transcript, Harold Fleming, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1986, by Michael Gillette (Item)
  • to be public, which of course created an aura to begin with. Secondly, people like [Rowland] Evans and [Robert] Novak and even Mary McGrory and some of the favored few who had access to Moynihan and had access to the report, I suppose, in the leak stage, played
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, L.T. (Tex) Easley, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and other things where a lot of people thought, and certainly it was my observation, that he was trying to do all he could to show himself in a conservative vein. Jumping way ahead, after John Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon went to the White House
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • by this time in the State House and the State's problems, so I thought, "well, I could run for Congress at large," and I would do that from the springboard of Speaker. Roberts, ran for Congress and was elected. So my state senator, Ray During the next weeks
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the Eisenhower years. That carne at about the time when I would have been eligible for a more junior position. Then when Kennedy came in in 1960 I was quite available, but nobody ever offered me the kind of a job that I wanted. I was particularly interested
Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Exactly. And he had a unique role, and still even does in his retirement as a senior adviser--Fairfield Osborne, Robert Moses, also. For thirty years I've worked with them as leaders and pioneers in these fields. So that having started
Oral history transcript, Douglas Pike, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Barry Zorthian, interview 2 (II), 4/24/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was for one of his periodic visits. I think he was with [Robert] McNamara on that particular visit. And as was the custom--I'd done this in the past with Bob Manning and others who came out--I got some of the key press together with him. It was supposed
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with really implementation of some of the Defense policies rather than Adam's early--in other words, you've got to remember, when [Robert] McNamara came in he made a lot of changes in Defense policies under the Kennedy Administration. He stepped on a lot
Oral history transcript, Frank McCulloch, interview 2 (II), 8/15/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • statement. I think within that sort of framework--and because there were pressures from Washington. As the Blowtorch [Robert Komer] once said, "Gentlemen, gentlemen, you must understand, I was sent here to report to the President progress on the war
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 2 (II), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that he was up here to try to either give instructio.ns, or assuming that he had al ready been. elected and . . . . . . denying· that, you know, Coke was on the defensive: .. He had with him a young man, Bob Murphy, Robert Mu.rphy, who· later
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the specific problems as possible to the agencies, but many of them bring up matters of principle . I'll give you an example of the type of thing that can happen . Dr . Robert Holley who I guess yesterday or day before yesterday received the Nobel Prize
Oral history transcript, Melvin C. Winters, interview 2 (II), 2/25/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • were at home? W: When Kennedy was assassinated? G: Yes. W: Yes, we were at home. G: Do you remember when the first time was you talked to LBJ after that? W: I don't know whether he came down here or whether we went to Washington. We went so
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Civil Rights Bill of 1964; LBJ calls Pickle to commend him on his vote; Pickle votes against open housing; Pickle as "President Johnson's Congressman;" Robert Poage and Williamson County; regrets voting against open housing; LBJ, Yarborough
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- President Johnson, and this is not to make invidious comparisons for one or the other because any comparison is invidious. President Johnson is a much more through-channel President than President Kennedy was. I was never particularly surprised to get
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: I arrived in Washington on the afternoon of March 16 [1948] and met with the Congressman [Johnson] for the first time about seven o'clock that night. When I was at the Kennedy
Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had been selected by the Republican caucus to be chairman of what we call the Republican Policy Committee in the time Senator Robert Taft was the Republican leader of the Senate. When he went to the hospital he asked me to sit in as the acting leader
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Geissinger -- I -- 3 So, anyhow, Oki had been there the whole time. there, I know, since Kennedy's administration. was, exactly when. tration. Frank had been I don't know when that Bob Knudsen had
Oral history transcript, Julius Richmond, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that he was more knowledgeable than most laymen about the impact of environment on the psychological and social development of children largely because over the years he had been the executive director of the Kennedy Foundation. The Kennedy Foundation
Oral history transcript, Spurgeon H. Neel, Jr., interview 2 (II), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • through, up goes the windows, off goes the air conditioning, and they all get down on the floor, on the tile floor where it's cool. But to please us, they get in the bed. And we insisted--Kennedy got in on a lot of this; he'd come over there. G
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 11 (XI), 12/20/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frederick O'Reilly Hayes, interview 2 (II), 10/10/83, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the program was on the day that Kennedy was assassinated. So that it began in 1963. I was with the program from the time that it was enacted and funded, and left in September 1966. G: You were there through an awful lot of certainly the formative period
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 25 (XXV), 1/2/1982-1/3/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . That didn't come about until whose time, Kennedy's? Or was it Eisenhower's? It was Eisenhower's. It was Eisenhower's, because Oveta Culp 21 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 1-- 2 than a full-time job if you were out of the university. So I worked for the International News Service, which is now UPI, under a fellow named Vann Kennedy, whom a lot of people in the LBJ family know. He now lives in Corpus Christi where
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 3 (III), 1/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , and really "agency" isn't the correct word for them. They go by many other names--sometimes they're called commissions, sometimes panels, sometimes committees, and sometimes task forces. The term "task force" developed, I think, in either the late Kennedy
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • turn the task of handling the assignments over to the Steering Committee, because if he had, he would never have been able to get freshmen senators such as Kennedy and the others some of the positions that he got for them on major committees. tion
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • don't need to do more than sort of place it as part of the backdrop, because this stuff was going up all the time in draft form, but this was typical of President Johnson's period as of President Kennedy's before it--that a great deal of the most
Oral history transcript, Donald M. Baker, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • in getting the poverty legislation through the Congress. number of points. The fact of the matter is a great number of administration people worked on the Hill. testified. This was evident in a Many of them went up and The attorney general, Robert
Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jule M. Sugarman, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Robert Kennedy was appointed as Attorney General he appointed Dave Hackett, who had been his college roommate-G: An Olympic hockey player? S: Right--to look into problems of juvenile delinquency. As first parts of that effort, Dave came to the Bureau
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 5 (V), 8/11/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • I had undc:l"s !:c
Oral history transcript, Charles P. Little, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 4 (IV), 1/31/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • meant Kennedy. When he talked about his conversation with Dean, you knew it was Rusk. When he talked about anybody in any position at all, he used nicknames and first names, and I think he had the chief justice of the Supreme Court that came out
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 4 (IV), 5/21/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was maneuvered precisely, I do not know. G: Did you ever hear that Senator [Robert] Kerr also wanted the whip position? K: No. No, and I would rather doubt it. I think that if Kerr had wanted something, it \vould have been the leadership. he would have
Oral history transcript, William R. Desobry, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • were doing a great job, and to me they were sort of worthless, but it was a drill we had to go through. When [Robert] Komer came in it even got worse. In fact, it got ridiculous. But, be that as it may, the only way I could describe it was if I took
  • Desobry's military career before going to Vietnam in 1965; Vietnam as a learning experience; Desobry's duties as a senior adviser in IV Corps; Robert McNamara's visits to Vietnam; how the military was prevented from defeating the enemy in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was, I punched the red button to the President's office, and Juanita Roberts answered. I said, "I must see the President immediately." She said, "Just a minute." [Then] she said, "Come right in." I turned to Buzz, who was a little startled at this, and I
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Morris, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • became president, Lord only knows what sort of commitments he knew of that we, the public, had no idea about, as a carryover from John F. Kennedy. But he must have had some. He certainly didn't feel free to clean his house and start over with his own