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Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • M: Mrs. Bartlett, you have already mentioned that he was in favor of Johnson's candidacy in 1960. Was he very surprised at Mr. Johnson's accepting the vice presidential spot with John Kennedy? B: Yes. He wasn't sorry, because here was a friend
Oral history transcript, George Ball, interview 1 (I), 7/8/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • wasn't really very close to any of the foreign policy decisions that you worked with while you were working for Mr. Kennedy? B: He was not at all close to them. He was actually involved in very few of the decisio ns that were taken during that period
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ELIZABETH CARPENTER INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Ms. Carpenter's home in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Liz, let's start off talking about the reaction to the book on the Kennedy assassination particularly
  • on beautification program; Maxine Cheshire; Ambassador Adlai Stevenson’s relationship with the First Family; Rene Verdon; suggestions on gifts; A White House Diary; LBJ Ranch and the Hill Country; Hirschon collection; letter from Jackie Kennedy to Lady Bird put up
Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • candidate, Senator Kennedy, but from our investigation, I don't think it was ever conceived. Now there was the, I think the Air Force, had a stronger feeling on that than the other services, and of course the investigation and the intelligence of the Air
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in the Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Sub-Committee; Kem Resolution; activities in the Senate; amendment to Kerr-Mills Bill; Saltonstall-Kennedy Act; Senator Hayden; Smithsonian
Oral history transcript, Harry Provence, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a cubbyhole on the same floor with the Kennedy organization there on Connecticut [Avenue]. Was it Connecticut? I could go right to the building right now, but I've forgotten the name of the street. Anyhow, Buck was traveling with Mr. Johnson and so
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that the Kennedy people noticed was that they approved of it. They didn't get the ifs and the whereases. G: How did you learn about the invasion? R: Oh, I learned about it when it happened. G: Just through the newspapers? R: Right. Johnson didn't mention
Oral history transcript, LeRoy Collins, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , was chairman of one of the committees and made a report from the committee in the 1956 convention. F: Were you privy to any of what to a lot of people was a surprise when the Texas delegation went for Kennedy instead of Kefauver? c: No, I wasn't. That's
Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 1 (I), 5/20/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • believe it was in 1956--didn't he nominate Kennedy for the Vice Presidency? F: For Vice President. He was the one who swung the convention away from Kefauver over to Mr. Kennedy. H: At that time, some time between '56 and '60, I would think that he
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • is sue on its own ITlerits? R: On the merits. The same way when Lyndon Johnson was President he adopted the Kennedy platform of 1960 and went beyond it; and he sent up some rather extreme public housing and urban renewal proposals to our Banking
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh McClendon -- I -- 5 M: Yes. my I couldn't travel with Kennedy. papers~ It was just too expensive [for] and of course they didn't send
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • measures-border taxes, import surcharges and so forth--that would undo and would start unraveling the results of the Kennedy Round. There were two schools of thought within the Administration--the free-trader school, and I'd say that was the State
  • ; the Johnson treatment; books written about LBJ’s Presidency; friction between the Kennedys and LBJ; press relations and criticisms; cause of LBJ’s unpopularity; LBJ’s interest in polls
Oral history transcript, George C. McGhee, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the State Department hierarchy, being in 1961 as, first, Policy Planning Council chief, and then later as Undersecretary for Political Affairs under Mr. Kennedy. Did Mr. Johnson take, that you could see, a very large role in foreign affairs as Vice
Oral history transcript, Javier Baz Manero, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and Guajardo, we made to Washington on occasion of a seminar in Washington, D.C. F: Is this the one at Georgetown? B: The Georgetown. At that time we visited President Kennedy, and Guajardo arranged for a visit of President Alemán to Vice President Johnson
  • Contact with LBJ; Miguel Aleman; visit to the LBJ Ranch; Johnson and Kennedy visits to Mexico; LBJ's funeral; the ranch at Chihuahua
Oral history transcript, Henry D. Owen, interview 1 (I), 12/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President Johnson, I'd say the more important variable from the standpoint of the Policy Planning Council is the Secretary of State . Now insofar as the President's personality comes to bear on it's work, I'd
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • concerned me greatly because I don't think that it's necessary to have uniform thinking in any political party. I felt that the reason that Kennedy and Johnson had so much difficulty carrying Texas after Jack Kennedy had drafted Lyndon to be his running mate
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • informed than we did under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations because it's quite natural for the White House to communicate more with their natural allies here on the Hill. And of course we get frequent White House briefings. We get frequent visits
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • published, except that I know that he was a very, very strong supporter of him and I think he did whatever he could both to persuade Kennedy to offer it to him and persuade [Johnson]-- a harder job, really, in view of their relative roles in the Senate-- M
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • in the Kennedy Administration but had not reached the 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [popular] attitude was so captivated by Kennedy-there were streets named after Kennedy, buildings named after Kennedy-that they never quite got a grip on him [LBJ]. Because of the general French interest in American foreign policy and very little
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , do you recall? R: Yes. Yes. The question was with Texas and the vice president run--it ended up in a Kefauver and Kennedy race--who Texas should be for. Johnson wanted to be for Hubert Humphrey, but he couldn't move the delegation that fast
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 2 (II), 9/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • overwhelmed legislatively by the Democrats most of the time. Of course I think that Kennedy could have been considered pretty much of an anathema to Republicans and there was very little communication between the White House and the Republican members
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or another, in effect putting what was Senator [President?] Kennedy's executive order into legislation. By and large I think that President Johnson thought that order had been ineffective. Getting federally subsidized housing--housing backed by Federal Home
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Chinese, take that first step that needs to be taken if one is to walk a thousand miles, a la Jack Kennedy. [We] proposed over and over again that we exchange newsmen, that we exchange scholars, that we don't exchange if that's their wish, that they send
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • about--I presume before 1960 you-did not know- the Johnsons . the Kennedy's prior to that? Did you have anything to do with 0: No, I didn't F: So you come into this part of service in the 1960's with John F . I didn't know either one . Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to France during the entire time Mr. Johnson had been President? % Yes, I was appointed by president Kennedy to France, and I got there in 2 F W R E H U 1962, and I was happily ensconced there, perfectly prepared and willing indeed to spend the rest
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with good grace just as Richard Nixon did in 1960 when he probably had some grounds to make a loud cry--I suspect that Nixon wouldn't be president today if he had made a fuss about the Kennedy election in 1960. Politically, you've got to learn to be a good
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy was assassinated. I, with President Kennedy's complete support, had gone to Senator Pastore to get the legislation. And indeed, I believe that Jack Kennedy interceded with Senator Pastore on that legislation. Oren Harris, if I'm not mistaken
Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • should go on. Whether it was a right decision or wrong decision, I don't think that any Republican could have won in '64 regardless. F: In retrospect, or maybe even then, did you get the feeling that Kennedy would have been a more vulnerable candidate
Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in particular that were demanding that they be put on the committee. One of them was John F. Kennedy, who said he needed the prestige of the committee because he was getting ready to run for national office. The second was Hubert Humphrey, the whip
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in which there were discussions about [space]. But this was after Kennedy was in the White House, and Lyndon at that time was chairing a [space] committee, and he had Senator Bob Kerr there, I believe, and a couple of White House people, somebody from NASA
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Kennedy election that I went on the Ways and Means Committee. M: Then you were a member of that committee until you retired. T: '66, that's right. M: And then after this--you are now, I suppose, a consultant? T: Well, at the moment, I'm director
Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and an organization going and so forth, Kennedy had the thing too well sewed up, and they always felt they started too late. thinking about it far enough in advance. stick his neck out? Was he Could he not bring himself to Was he too busy with government business
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • , although I had taught swimming, I didn't know how to swim myself. And this was about the time the Bobby Kennedy parties were having everybody tossed in the pool. So Tom Boggs said that he was going to toss me in the pool and watch me drown in front
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and we all know the history--Nixon decided for whatever arbitrary reasons he was not going to expend funds the Congress appropriated. And I was reflecting upon the fact that I can remember it was Senator Mondale, Senator Kennedy, Senator Javits and Pete
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 11 (XI), 7/24/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . A commitment that had been made by the Democratic Party and by us in the Kennedy-Johnson period had not been fulfilled. Go back to the five-vote margin to expand the Rules Committee. There was further change in procedure in subsequent years, but he moved from
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 1 (I), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . By this time, in '58, future President John F. Kennedy is getting geared up quite well. Of course Johnson is or isn't gearing up, and there's lots of debate. Did you get any insights on that jockeying that must have been going on at that time? H: One
  • Policy Committee: going to work for Senator William Proxmire in 1958 as a liaison between Proxmire and LBJ; Proxmire's and LBJ's different political styles; Senator John F. Kennedy gearing up for a national political role in 1958; Proxmire's committee
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be jury trials, or whether there would be judge trials, and whether or not contempt of court would be civil or criminal. We took the hard line, the liberals, namely the criminal contempt for violations and no jury trial. It was here where Jack Kennedy made
Oral history transcript, John E. Horne, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • about 1960? Did you go to the convention in Los Angeles as a Stevenson supporter still? H: No, I did not. M: You had become a, what, Kennedy [supporter] at that time, or Johnson? H: Frankly, in 1960 Senator Sparkman was up for re-election