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Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • I have basically the correct information? B: Basically you are right. M: Do you have any corrections? B: No, not one. M: Mr. B a r t l e t , , have you ever participated in any similar oral history project? B: Yes, on John Kennedy
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • potential as president; bitterness between Bobby Kennedy and LBJ; Bartlett's relationship with President Johnson and his White House staff; Vietnam War; Robert Kennedy's run for presidency; impressions of Kennedy family role in Johnson's selection of Kennedy
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, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • th e l ate 1950s with the Racket s Committee invest i gating staff, with , l ater, Senator Robert Kennedy . 0: No . Did you get to know Mr . Johnson at all du r i ng t hat time? I had seen him , but I ' d never met [h im) . The fi r st time I
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • in was that in either the fall of 1965 or 1966 I wrote to Robert Kennedy, who was, in a gingerly way, questioning the war. I said, and I think it was a very well-taken point, that he was the only American who could lead us out of it, wrest the presidency away from
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • For Kennedy-Johnson. This was at Robert Kennedy's request. We turned the city into a Kennedy-Johnson city, although normally it has been a Republican city in the past. I also went into the Protestant areas of upstate Pennsylvania--into Easton
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Peabody’s views of the JFK/LBJ ticket and his part in the campaign; casual meetings with LBJ and the Kennedys, their differences of opinion on various matters; description of differences in JFK, RFK, and LBJ campaign techniques; Lawrence O’Brien’s
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy, the President asked me to serve as a member of the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. S: And, to this moment, today, you are still sitting on that commission? LBJ Presidential Library http
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  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Patricia Roberts Harris
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • trader. I think it was the Populist bias against restrictions on the free flow of goods. He believed very strongly in free trade and had a magnificent record in the area. The Kennedy LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • don't think John F. could do it. With Robert, I'm not sure. G: What I was going to ask is that Robert Kennedy had some involvement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and with your contact there, some of the interpretations that I've seen
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 20 that whatever adjustments were made were not made by Vice President Johnson but came from the White House and were frequently the product of Robert Kennedy's
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968