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Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 8 (VIII), 4/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the thirty-first speech. Now I want to shift to what we might call another chapter in my observations of LBJ and the presidency and that period of time and discuss what I and other folks have referred to as the Kennedy cult. Not the Kennedy clan. The Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the other hand probably the candidate that I most closely identified with because of my own personal background was Hubert Humphrey. And you know if you had just given me the choice ideally, I think I probably would have picked Humphrey. Kennedy in the early
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • vantage point there . O: The 1960 convention, of course, was held in Los Angeles . I was a delegate to the convention from Massachusetts as a delegate for Jack Kennedy . campaign . I had been an advance man on the Kennedy came out with a real
  • 1960 election; the Kennedys; relationship with LBJ; Massachusetts politics; Vietnam War; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Education bill; LBJ's persuasive ability
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • stockpile, and President Kennedy had asked the Senate to have an investigation, specifically he had asked Symington who was chairman of the Stockpile Subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Symington asked Kennedy to send someone up
  • for LBJ; comparison of the White House social life of the Kennedys and the Johnsons; Kappel Commission and reorganization of the Post Office; defection of top level appointees regarding Vietnam policy; Larry O’Brien’s opposition to Vietnam policy
Oral history transcript, Don Hummel, interview 1 (I), 10/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of Tucson and had to resign that pOSition. After the nomination of Mr. Stevenson and when the Convention was thrown open for selection, Jack Kennedy was nominated for Vice President, and I led the opposition to President Kennedy on the Arizona delegation
Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • NTERV I EWEE: MYLTON L. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Kennedy's residence, Denver, Colorado Tape of 1 G: Let's start with your first acquaintance with Lyndon Johnson. You indicated earlier that you arrived on the campus
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  • Oral history transcript, Mylton Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 5/9/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Mylton Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: DAN FENN INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan PLACE: Cambridge, Massachusetts Tape 1 of 2 M: You are Dan Fenn, currently director of the Kennedy Library and lecturer at Harvard Business School. Your government association during the Johnson years
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 5 (V), 9/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because of Joe Kennedy's record in the past, if they felt like he shouldn't be on the ticket with Joe Kennedy's son. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • Reactions of Johnson supporters to LBJ’s acceptance of Vice Presidential nomination, meeting of Johnson organization with Kennedy organization at Hyannis Port, campaign train trip in the South with LBJ in 1960, 1964 campaign trip with Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEt~ I DATE: November, 1968 I NTERV I E~IEE : VANN M. KENNEDY INTERVIEWER: PAUL BOLTON PLACE: Corpus
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  • Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton
  • Vann Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the election of 1960, when all four of us went into the government. F: Yes. M: So I became involved in politics really through Governor Stevenson, and then to the Kennedys. F: How far back does you acquaintance with--I don't know which title to give him
  • Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
Oral history transcript, Dorothy H. Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • was so close to Mr . Johnson? J: No . B: Were those in Minnesota who objected? J: No . B: They seem to have made a very effective team in those Senate years . J: Yes . B: Before the convention, I understand that the : Kennedy people were very
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • briefly how much contact you had with Lyndon Johnsony or how much opportunity you had to observe him during the years that you were a legislative assistant to Senator Kennedy and an administrative assistant to Senator Cooper. W: I certainly had plenty
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Rayburn to go to Dr. Janet Travell, Kennedy's back physician, down at the White House. He finally convinced the Speaker that he ought to let Dr. Travell examine him and see what she could do for him. in the back. So she started giving him shots He
  • LBJ and the NYA in 1935; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; political philosophies; Griffin-Landrum Bill; Ralph Yarborough; Allan Shivers; LBJ & JFK; Rayburn and the Kennedys
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XVIII -- 5 R: It shifted too much to be labeled that way, and by that time the press had reached a stage where it was changing assignments deliberately. In other words, somebody covering Kennedy would be sent over
Oral history transcript, Leonard H. Marks, interview 2 (II), 1/26/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--5 The bill passed the House, and President Kennedy signed it into law. ceremony. I was privileged to be invited
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1a (I), 1/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • President Eisenhower. Presi- dent Kennedy recalled you to active duty in 1961, and you served as the military representative to the President. From '62 to '64, you were Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; from 1964 to 1965, Ambassador to Vietnam
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , however, when you became postmaster general for the Kennedy Administration. Is that correct? G: I became postmaster general effective September 30, 1963 under Jack Kennedy, President Kennedy, and of course served under him until his death a month
  • treatment of Gronouski, 1964 campaign and the Post Office, Bob Hardesty, Bobby Kennedy, news media’s treatment.
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there officially until 1962? G: Until 1962, that's right. M: Now, someplace in here you must have come into contact with John F. Kennedy. G: Oddly enough, I had very little contact with John F. Kennedy . . I met him, LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Carolina during his campaign for the PreSidency after he succeeded President Kennedy. Now I had been in his company a number of times with the North Carolina delegation, I think. We had conferred with him in con- nection with some matters affecting
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Democratic Convention went on a chartered car by train from San Francisco to Los Angeles. F: I was on that car. I rather gather that the attorney generals had a feeling that Kennedy was not their candidate, or at least was not likely to be a winning
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by the people from Texas. Of course, he was selected by John Kennedy to be his running mate, and then I think he was pretty well taken seriously. B: Did you have anything to do with the pre-convention campaign? Did any- one from Mr. Johnson's camp try
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • his suite in the Biltmore. Oscar Chapman and May Oliver (?), I believe it was, we all were using this room, but mainly Chapman and I were using it. F: Did you have the feeling that you had started late? Y: Yes. And the Kennedy operation was so well
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: T.H. Baker PLACE: Mr. Hardeman's residence, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, last we time had gone to the 1960 election, which brings us to John Kennedy's years as president. One of the questions that comes up
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • work for the Kennedy project. H: Yes I did. There were a couple of things. First, the members of the council during the Kennedy Administration, not all of them, but a group of us got together with Paul Samuelson and Joe Pechman. M:. Was Kermit
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 7 (VII), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: MARY MARGARET VALENTI INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mrs. Valenti's residence in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 V: I see—here it says, “To Middleburg with President and Mrs. Kennedy.” Do the diaries say it reads
  • Discusses several trips LBJ made as Vice President; describes a visit between LBJ and the Kennedys at George Brown’s house, and a visit to Prime Minister Nehru’s house.
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Library oral histories: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kennedy, and having succeeded Kennedy under the circumstances that he did, he implied to me both
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • for the purpose of again becoming a candidate for Congress, which I did in 1958, and I was elected again to the 86th Congress. Come 1960, of course, I had a different handicap. This time it wasn't Ike and his farm; this time it was John F. Kennedy and his religion
  • Act; Quigley's work on civil rights; LBJ's growth and sincerity regarding civil rights; civil rights in the Kennedy Administration; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and HEW's submission of ideas for the Act; 1963 events in Birmingham as a turning point
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , " meaning John Kennedy, "wins West Virginia, the show's over anyway ; then it's not going to make any difference . If he wins West Virginia, he'll take the convention and the nomination." I'll always rernelnber that, because he did take West Virginia
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was not that favorable that he was considered in 1960, for instance. candidate for President. He was not considered by our people as the ideal You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy. When he was selected
  • First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • project? P: Yes, I was interviewed in connection ~vith the John F. Kennedy Oral History Project and also, as a matter of interest, my father, who was a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lera Thomas, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • it. It was a terrific thing because there were so many people that were trying to influence President Kennedy. And, of course, President Kennedy had a terrific decision to make even against his own state, because MIT wanted it, you see, and California, where they had
Oral history transcript, Lloyd N. Cutler, interview 1 (I), 4/12/1969, by William Helmer (Item)
  • , and we're now about a forty-five man law firm. I'm politically a Democrat, and I have worked as an advisor on the edges of government and in various political campaigns, in the course of which I've come to know the president and also President Kennedy. live
Oral history transcript, Jerry Holleman, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • H: Actually John Connally was the chairman of the delegation, but he was, of course, Lyndon's right-hand man. M: Isn't it true then that Johnson supported Kennedy in 1956? H: For the vice presidency? M: Yes. H: He ran against him for vice
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 2 (II), 6/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • there with the Democratic National Convention of that year of which the potential contenders were John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and there was even a movement for Adlai Stevenson continuing in that year. Could we begin by your telling me what your activities were about
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that time in which you're beginning to think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
Oral history transcript, Roger Hilsman, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Welsh, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • It spelled out what it was to do. But during the Eisenhower Administration it didn't do it. So in December 1960--1 believe it was December 20, 1960--a press conference was held down at Palm Beach by President-elect Kennedy, and Vice President-elect Johnson
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that policy, as indeed I had under President Kennedy, too. I would sometimes write a column--my wife and I saw them, him and Mrs. Johnson, very often at the White House, probably during those years, almost once a week at least in a very private way
Oral history transcript, Gerard C. Smith, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • until I was working for the Kennedy Administration as a consultant, adviser to Rusk on multilateral force negotiations. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org M: ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • force issue; MLF negotiations failure; lack of organization in the White House from the Kennedy years through 1964; relation between MLF’s demise and nonproliferation treaty negotiations; what happened to Smith’s colleagues following the MLF issue
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and there was excitement about Senator Kennedy as the nominee. And it would have been very unlike him to have expressed any disappointment. If he felt that way, I think he managed to conceal it from everybody. G: What were the advantages of becoming vice president over