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Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ? H: That's quite right. F: You didn't assign additional people to McCarthy or Robert Kennedy? H: No, I should say not. F: At the convention in '68, did you see evidence of the alleged heavy-hand LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • ; reputation as a hawk in Vietnam erroneous; Robert Kintner; rivalry between RFK and LBJ; Presidential press secretaries; LBJ seeking professional advice on TV style; conscious of Texas twang; Barry Goldwater; George Wallace; 3/31 speech; evaluation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Carl Sanders, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • think it was any sudden, overnight decision that he made, because 1 had been in his presence where I could have assumed very easily that this man was doing all he could for this term and maybe would go on. B: Were you close to Robert Kennedy? 5: Yes
  • ; LBJ’s efforts in Vietnam; Martin Luther King’s assassination; working on the Commission for Federal-State Relations; LBJ inheriting JFK’s staff; being offered a federal appointment; LBJ deciding not to run in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • General Robert Kennedy or some of the other staff members? Y: I would say they were sort of lumped together. You sort of thought of them as the clique or the clan, the Eastern Establishment. I guess the more unkind characterizations have been the Mafia
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • I've maintained close contact with the Kennedy-Johnson administrations. M: You might make a statement about Brookings Institution in general and its purpose. P: Brookings Institution is a nonprofit research organization that is privately LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh DATE RESTRICTION 1130170 A 1/30178 A 8118170 A .. FILE LOCATION Robert W. Komer Oral History Interviews RESTRICTION COCES (AI Closed by Executive Order 12358'governing access to national security information. (B
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  • Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was honored that he asked me, in part at the suggestion of his son George, who had been the assistant secretary of labor and with whom I'd worked. Ambassador Lodge knew that I'd traveled in the Soviet Union with Bob Kennedy, who of course had defeated his
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of country for about two and a half weeks. I went from Rome back to Washington; as I mentioned earlier, I arrived there the day of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas. Then I went back via the Far East, stopped off and saw our embassy
  • Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le
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, 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, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • which would prove to our ultimate disadvantage. Now my position was public, was well known. When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see that having me
Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • President Kennedy was made president and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral