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Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to make responsible decisions. 1I And like everybody else I supported him very actively. And so the end of the first period of our relationship was rather funny. As you probably know, Phil Graham and I had gone to President Kennedy at the critical
  • at the 1960 Democratic Convection; Philip Graham; Herman Talmadge; Alsop's writing about the Vietnam War; Bill Moyers; criticism of LBJ's approach to Vietnam; Alsop being invited to visit privately with presidents; LBJ's unpredictable nature' Robert McNamara
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 4 (IV), 8/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Sharon Francis -- Interview IV -- 3 clearly was heated. I might say, going back into some history, he had set his heart on it long, long ago. Because I remember doing a research paper for him when Kennedy was alive on all the times that the Antiquities
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 3 (III), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the ticket. I don't believe the President was going to put For some unfathomable reason, or perhaps not so unfathomable, I think that between Robert Kennedy and the President LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
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, Melvin C. Winters, interview 5 (V), 3/18/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • any insight into why they didn't like each other? W: No, no. G: What about some of the other Kennedy people, the cabinet people, for example? Did he talk to you about his impressions of them? [Robert] McNamara or [Dean] Rusk, or any of those? W
  • John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse; Konrad Adenauer's
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • joining in the political activities first of Senator Kennedy and then Senator Humphrey that thereafter there was reluctance of the White House to push this measure through? O: I don't think it was due to my political involvement. This from the beginning
  • of O'Brien's proposed campaign task force; O'Brien's and Rowe's political experience; LBJ's request that O'Brien evaluate of the Massachusetts primary; O'Brien and Ted Kennedy and possible stand-ins for LBJ in Massachusetts; Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) interest
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 1 (I), 11/12/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • some time early any particular as an "Acting" Kennedy served on as Attorney and then you were Acting Attorney or six months? to February The sorts Mr. Robert 13, [1965] problems Attorney of problems [1964] the first week I guess
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 15 (XV), 6/23/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , it was a long, drawn-out very tricky battle, very tricky. G: Now, the Kennedy bill when it was first introduced was really sort of a mild labor-management reporting and anticorruption type bill. It 11 ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • Dubinsky in reforms of the Taft-Hartley Act; Arthur Goldberg as chief counsel AFL-CIO; the Kennedy bill; McClellan bill of rights; secondary boycott provision; picketing; the conference committee; the Landrum-Griffin bill; barbecue at the Ranch for Lopez
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [are examples]. Ray Roberts, I think he sized up people like Ed Clark, John Connally, Cecil Burney down in Corpus Christi, John Singleton who is a Federal j udge down in Houston, Joe Kilgore, John Peace over in San Antonio, many many people that you could
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: CHALMERS ROBERTS INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN DATE: M: More on LBJ Library oral histories
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  • Roberts, Chalmers McGeagh, 1910-2005
  • Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Chalmers Roberts
Oral history transcript, Roy Wilkins, interview 1 (I), 4/1/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • disagreed on that. There was considerable debate on leaving out Part III. There was a split between the then-senators from Massachusetts, Senator John F. Kennedy and Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a Republican. There was heated debate and sharp difference
Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • contact with John F. Kennedy in that period? H: Yes. Together with Rear Admiral John D. Bulkeley, then Lt. Bulkeley-- I selected John F. Kennedy for PT boats, made him an instructor at the training school after he finished the course of instruction
  • of shipbuilding and sea-going unions; control of foreign steamship lines; containerization of shippers; inspections; origin/scope/work of FMC; White House support of commissioner; Robert J. Blackwell; transition from LBJ Administration to Nixon Administration
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh - 12- Did this impression that you say came from that meeting that Johnson was going to be offered the nomination over the objections of Robert Kennedy-did that ever get cleared up, or was that still-- B: No, that one
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • jotted down a statement for him to say in this meeting with President Kennedy and other advisers. Well, you know, I was bowled over. One, I'm not that smart, but I strained every bit of gray matter that I could to produce. I don't know whether
  • . Shriver and Ethel Kennedy to Texas; LBJ’s ability to recall names; 1960 election night; began working for LBJ when VP.
Oral history transcript, Leslie H. Gelb, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • glad about is that I wasn't in a position of real responsibility because I would have done the same thing they did. G: I know that. This puts Robert Kennedy in rather a bad light I think because he is one of the few people to even dare say out loud
  • ; staff who worked on study; study plan; lack of direction or certainty of what was expected reflections on the need for historians to do the study; role of Robert McNamara; speculation about the purpose of study; reaction to publication in the New York
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 4 (IV), 1/28/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little bit about politics during that period after March 31. You discussed the meeting that he had with Robert Kennedy in that period. I think [Theodore] Sorensen and Rostow were there. LBJ went out to address the broadcasters convention in Chicago. He
  • Westmoreland; Robert McNamara leaving LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s view of civil rights; Martin Luther King’s relationship with LBJ and his death; Resurrection City; LBJ meeting with people who wanted to discuss appointments; keeping meetings on or off the record
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attorney general when [Byron] White went to the Supreme Court. G: Clark had been under Robert Kennedy also? C: But Clark was the Land's Division. He was a Texan and he was Tom Clark's son. Breeding in its own way was important to Johnson in that sense
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 3 (III), 10/30/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1985 INTERVIEWEE: LAWRENCE F. O'BRIEN INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. O'Brien's office, New York City Tape 1 of 4, Side 1 G: Yesterday we were talking about President Kennedy and the southern members of Congress. Let me ask you
  • relationship with journalist Neil McNeil; concerns over publicity and media attention toward aides and staff members; Kenneth Keating's television show; John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; Robert Kennedy's appointment as attorney general
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , if you will, the issues in that campaign as you saw them. O: We had anticipated--we, the Kennedy people--that 1964 would be a relatively pleasant experience. We were anticipating an easy time of it. Just before the trip to Dallas we had an informal
  • for the 1964 campaign; the second campaign report, covering sixteen additional states and the District of Columbia; improved distribution of campaign materials by mid-October 1964; efforts to reach African-American and elderly voters; Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK
Oral history transcript, John Bartlow Martin, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • official capacity during the Johnson Administration was as ambassador to the uominican Republic for his first few months in office, after President Kennedy's assassination. Then you came back as special presidential troubleshooter at the time the Dominican
  • ; Adlai Stevenson’s briefing on Dominican Republic; relationship between LBJ and Robert Kennedy; 1968 presidential campaign; LBJ’s control of 1968 Democratic convention; Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign.
Oral history transcript, Katharine Graham, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • were upset, and among them was Senator Kennedy--Robert Kennedy--who was furious and denied it. He didn't deny about the Lincoln book saying that the meeting had taken place as phil had said. He didn't deny that phil had been the go-between, but LBJ
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • these to these other matters in that way. B: Did you know Mr. Kennedy prior to his election? W: Only casually. I had met him once or twice, more or less on social occasions or occasions where I might have been with Senators and Congressmen, but I had no close
Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1986 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT G. LEWIS INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Lewis' residence, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let's just start briefly with your background and let me ask you to trace the circumstances that brought you
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  • Lewis, Robert G. (Robert George), 1919-
  • Oral history transcript, Robert G. Lewis, interview 1 (I), 2/6/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert G. Lewis
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? P: The only time I really ever campaigned for him was in the 1960 election. I was in law school in 1948. And so, yes, in the 1960 campaign as he and Mr. Kennedy were running, I did do some rather modest [campaigning], and all in Texas, nothing
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • Washington-newcomer Purcell to many people; Bobby Kennedy; the JFK assassination; Luci Johnson babysitting for the Purcells; the hard-working staff of the White House; the JFK to LBJ transition; Meat Inspection Act; LBJ communication problems with mass media
Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with it. What about the difficulties, I think, in February of 1967 when Robert Kennedy got into the peacemaking act and came back? You are, I guess, one of the two outside observers to that episode. I wonder if you can clear that up for me. K
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 16 (XVI), 9/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy and Robert Kennedy right after President Eisenhower's State of the Union address in January. Do you recall any of the significance to that meeting? R: No. I don't remember it at all, and I doubt if there was any unusual significance
Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • 15, 1986 INTERVIEWEE: EDWARD CLARK INTERVIEWER: Robert Dallek PLACE: Mr. Clark's office, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 D: First off, do you remember your first meeting with Lyndon Johnson? I know we're talking about fifty years ago
  • Estes; how Clark ranked LBJ and JFK as presidents; LBJ's relationship with Robert Kennedy.
  • Oral history transcript, Edward Clark, interview S-I, 12/15/1986, by Robert Dallek
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Senator Robert Kennedy to decide to run when he finally did announce? GM: Yes. But what happened is that when this group went up to see McCarthy, he surprised both them and me by readily agreeing. Really, I was shocked--pleasantly so--when Gene came
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Johnson Administration. You just didn't have the number of occasions. Because I was very junior on the staff, I think, is certainly one of the biggest reasons, and also the types of occasions at the White House that brought the Johnsons and the Kennedys
  • impressions of Eartha Kitt; Mrs. Johnson and porcelain Dorothy Doughty birds given to her as gifts; automobile privileges; Mrs. Kennedy taking a presidential desk; establishment of the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and Office of the White
Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • think of, except I had some ideas, and I generally used to get called down when there was trouble. I had breakfast, at his request, with John Kennedy that morning. He knew I was in town and did not want to question me about the Middle East. He wanted
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • knowledge, of the offer that they wanted him to accept the vice presidential nomination. So it was extremely exciting, because Speaker Rayburn met Robert Kennedy in the adjoining room and the discussions [went] back and forth and men came and went. G
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  • Waldron, Robert Earl, 1927-1995
  • Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Robert E. Waldron
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • speculation, actually. G: Regarding Robert Kennedy and his presidential aspirations. R: Right. I don't think anybody quite said it, but there had been a number of columnists who had left a very clear inference that Kennedy was engaged in trying to dump
  • in other military tactics, such as rocket power and supersonic speeds; Robert Kennedy's presidential aspirations in 1963; LBJ's reaction to criticism in the press; assumptions in 1963 about President Kennedy's political future; Barry Goldwater's chances
Oral history transcript, Sterling Tucker, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • could be more establishment than a federal agency. So the kind of people who were put together in that Civil Rights Division was really remarkable. B: You mean people like Robert Kennedy himself and John Doar and Burke Marshall? T: Yes. B
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, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , to a good friend of mine, the nephew of ~y godfather, a boy named John Husted; that was before she met Jack Kennedy and cancelled those plans. In 1952 Dad decided to leave government. I think he was going to go back into business, but he was, by a few
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • to food and China; the problem of being under a committee system; East-West trade and U.S. trade policies; Nixon’s proposal to open international trade; the Department of Agriculture; how Symington became assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 1 (I), 7/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Rusk -- Interview I -- 13 M: Particularly the story of the personal blow-up that Mr. Johnson allegedly had at Robert Kennedy at the first Cabinet meeting. Do you think that's false? R: I don't remember or recollect
  • Detailed recollections of LBJ as President; reflections on his role as Majority Leader and VP; LBJ and Rusk’s personal and professional relationship; LBJ, RFK and certain Kennedy staff members; LBJ and foreign leaders; the Tuesday Lunch; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, William J. Hopkins, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • and retired I believe early in President Kennedy's time went back to the Wilson Administration. So there is a great deal of continuity. B: Do your duties involve anything pertaining to the mansion itself, the LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • domestic programs, and perhaps in the civil rights field, schools, and so on. When I was in Justice under Robert Kennedy, he was the head of a delegation, I think, to discuss a Peace Corps equivilence throughout the Caribbean, down in Puerto Rico
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • committed themselves to Kennedy, although the majority of the delegation was for President Johnson. Mc: I've heard that the people from the Texas delegation were rather surprised by the organization of the Kennedy people . . I've gotten the impression
  • on housing (Suburbia) in 1965; impressions of Robert Wood and Charles M. Haar; evaluation of task forces; service on the advisory committee of the Federal National Mortgage Association.
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT NOVAK INTERVIEWER: Paige Mulhollan PLACE: Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: I've already identified you on the tape, but just to get the credentials on here as well, you are Robert Novak and you are a syndicated columnist
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  • Career history; Novak's private meetings with LBJ; economic advisor Paul Douglas; LBJ drunk; Sam Shaffer and Newsweek; press coverage of the senate vs. the presidency; LBJ's attitude during the vice-presidency; Kennedy staff's disregard for LBJ
  • Novak, Robert D.
  • Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • Robert D. S. Novak