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Oral history transcript, Herbert N. Blackman, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 16 and Robert Kennedy was then counsel. I'm not very clear what this was all aimed at--whether
  • Policy; Clarence Randall; Chad McClellan; Henry Thurton; Sherman Adams; Stanley Nehmar; Henry Kearns; President Kennedy; Census Bureau; Stanley Ruttenberg; Assistant Secretary Weaver; textile structure; meeting-labor textile advisory commission; White
Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the selection. F: Did anyone work for Mr. Johnson who didn't work closely with him? T: Well, you would work for him, but not every day. Like Mary Margaret was right in his office, and Juanita Roberts--of course, she's his secretary now-- and she was in his
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ia), 12/12/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; [Walter] George [D. Ga.]; [Robert A.] Taft [R. Ohio]; [John O.] Pastore [D. R.I.); [Hubert H.] Humphrey [D. Minn.]; [Burnet R.] Maybank [D. S.C.]; [John C.] Stennis [D. Miss.); [H. Styles] Bridges [R. N.H.]; [Eugene D.] Millikin [R. Colo.]. There would
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the Houston convention because that has some pertinence. You know this Catholic issue was one of the big issues used against Al Smith in '28, and then, of course, it was in Houston that a generation later John F. Kennedy had this meeting LBJ Presidential
  • Biographical information; 1928 convention; repeal of the 18th Amendment; Henry Wallace; Harry S. Truman; BEHIND THE BALLOTS and THE JIM FARLEY STORY; first meeting with LBJ; 1941 Johnson vs. O’Daniel campaign; Eisenhower; Kennedy-Kefauver fight
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • against Johnson . We had that real bitter battle with Alan Shivers in 1956 when he took over the machinery, but from then on it has always been who's for Johnson . '60 we were voting for Johnson . Now Kennedy had a great deal of appeal to the Latins
Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with the candidate as we had in past campaigns. In 1960, I don't believe I saw anything of President Johnson when he was running with Jack Kennedy, as the Vice Presidential candidate. PresiC'.ential candidates at all. him as a reporter, at the We paid no attention
  • Biographical information; reporting political, congressional and military affairs; 1960 and 1964 Democratic campaigns; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cy Vance; Robert McNamara; crises operations; defense directorates; public affairs
Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the word "planning." Because as John F. Kennedy once said, the very future of the democracies will depend upon whether they can compete with the more rigorous and brutal methods of the totalitarians through planning under freedom. This is a rather
  • Employment Act of 1946, its intended and eventual uses; tax reductions of 1964; regulating the federal budget; the war against poverty and its failures; local control of education; planning in a free society; President John F. Kennedy; rising
Oral history transcript, NYA Interview, group interview 1 (I), 1968, by William S. White (Item)
  • S. WHITE WITH A GROUP FROM LYNDON JOHNSON'S DAYS AS DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION IN TEXAS FROM 1935 to 1937 The NYA group includes: WILLARD DEASON J. J. (JAKE) PICKLE RAY ROBERTS FENNER ROTH ALBERT W. BRISBIN C. P. LITTLE The tape
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  • Roberts, Ray, 1913-1992
Oral history transcript, Charles Fitz Baird, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • it was on Navy Day in 1966, when Senator Robert Kennedy was out in California doing some campaigning for the Democratic ticket out there, and I was in Long Beach then and Assistant Secretary of the Navy, not a very important post in Washington, But I had gone
Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to get a haircut. And with this security check, of course I was privileged to work there. Then I met a young captain there--he was working at the time in transportation--Captain Schultz, Robert Schultz, who didn't have the privilege of using the private
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • there of putting other carriers in . M: There was the accusation at the time that Robert Kennedy was putting pressure on you to change . B: Absolutely untrue! M: And that this was tied in with the White House, too . B : That's absolutely untrue
Oral history transcript, John A. Baker, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to support the Vice President. The Under Secretary announced that he was supporting Senator Robert Kennedy. And that was the third announcement that came along. And the day that announcement came along, along about 6:25 or something, I was sitting here
Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • " appearance, Senator Robert Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy met me at the Paige Airways airport here in Washington, and we talked for about an hour in one of the offices. And Senator Robert Kennedy wanted me to say that I would be a candidate
  • Meeting LBJ in 1963; Robert McNamara; Dean Rusk; David Bell; Ralph Dungan; James Farley; Alfred Gruenther; Eugene Black; John Gardner; General Advisory Committee on Foreign Assistance Programs; James Perkins; Robert Kintner; Kennedy Center
Oral history transcript, Whitney Shoemaker, interview 1 (I), 11/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Office Building. Mr. Shoemaker, you came on the White House staff in May, 1966 as a Presidential Assistant first in Message Operations and presently in Public Correspondence. Prior to that time during John Kennedy's administration you had covered
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Board of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, which is a mouthful; and we gave our first award dinner in Austin, and the awardee was Archbishop [Robert E.] Lucey from San Antonio. And the speaker that evening was Senator Johnson--I believe he
Oral history transcript, Warren L. (Bill) Gulley, interview 1 (I), 11/29/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Senator Robert Kennedy's body along with seventy-five staff members of the Kennedy family. But as I say, they are controlled by this office. Now, in addition to that, the President has a Jet Star for short hops. This hauls thirteen people and he used
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • talk history. Sec: [Identifying professor referred to above] H: Well, you see, a minute on Califano. Professor Shea. Well, the Cubans were coming in fast, and when they decided in the Kennedy Administration, to put the people who had been through
  • Adams; gaining minority representation; John Doar; Jim Folsom; Patrick Moynihan; rehabilitation program; attitude toward voluntary or national service systems; Ted Kennedy; definition of uniformity in relation to draft; criticism of lack of uniformity
Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 4 (IV), 1/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . government. I think much progress was made in perfecting the organization of the Defense Department in previous administrations. I think Mr. [Robert] McNamara contributed substantially to further improving the organization. And I think during Mr. [Clark
  • The organization of the Department of Defense and its relationship to the president and his advisers in decision-making; delegation of authority within the Department of Defense; comparing Clark Clifford to Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense
Oral history transcript, Sanford L. Fox, interview 1 (I), 11/27/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • you may be called on to assist in obtaining an item or items in the way I feel the President and Mrs. Johnson would like in particular. Well, let's see, now, his secretary, Mrs. Roberts, would contact me and say, "This is what the President would like
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • got that news on a very sad day, as you know. It was the day Robert Kennedy was to be buried here in Washington, and we had planned a brief memorial ceremony here at the department. The funeral cortege was to stop outside the department
Oral history transcript, Thomas Royals, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Opportunity Act and was to provide special impact funds to a specific ghetto area, but as S'~nator [Robert] Kennedy and [Jacobs] Javits envisioned, not only would this assist the local residents in welfare and education and employment, but it would also
Oral history transcript, Welly K. Hopkins, interview 2 (II), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Well, fortunately that was before the Smith-Connally Act and it was before Taft-Hartley and there were no inhibitions as against appropriate contributions. So I suggested that he ought to talk to then-Secretary-Treasurer, a man named Tom Kennedy, now
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to be not enough. And he wanted to become Under Secretary of State very badly and he had his strong supporters for that role--[Arthur] Goldberg and [Robert] McNamara were two of them. But the President wouldn't listen to that. B: By "left too early," did Moyers
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : You continued in that capacity until what--1963? B: Yes, until 1963, when I was appointed by President Kennedy to be the Commissioner of the Federal Housing Administration . M: I see . Were there any particular problems with the Veteran's
Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • � � � � 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/show/loh/oh INTERVIEWEE : ROBERT
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  • Bennett, Robert LaFollette, 1912-2002
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Bennett, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
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Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Kennedy called The Boy's Life Of John F. Kennedy, which I thought of and then the guy wrote it and did sort of a crununy job. So I re,vrote it and it turned out to be sort of a best seller kind of a thing. After about a year and a half or two years
  • ; press leaks and staff members talking to the press; believing in what you write; 'crisis mongering'; changes in socioeconomic conditions for Negroes; presenting statistical information to the President; the Kerner Commission; Robert Kennedy speaking out
Oral history transcript, Jack Hood Vaughn, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a good agreement. Ambassador Robert Anderson, who was in charge of the negotiations overall, had done a superb job in working this LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org out. ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Sheldon Cohen, interview 1 (I), 10/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , 1968 INTERVIEWEE: SHELDON S. COHEN INTERVIEWER: David C. McComb PLACE: Internal Revenue Service Building, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 3 C: I never kept a diary before in my life, but on the day that Kennedy was shot, I started keeping notes
Oral history transcript, Frederick C. Belen, interview 1 (I), 11/7/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Kennedy sent for me and I was told that they had made a mistake . They had thought any one of the assistants was qualified, but Mr . Bishop's assignment had had nothing to do with day-to-day operation of the Department . After Mr . Brawley left Mr . Day
  • 30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Robert Kennedy, had sent him a book in which he had marked a passage saying, "this might be of interest to you ." BA : Yes, I've seen references to that ; it's references to one of Bruce Catton's books on the Civil War, I believe
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the last minute and get in. And I think that Lyndon was at that time convinced that the way to win that race was to wait very late and come in and be a sort of compromise force around which folks could rally. I think he thought that Mr. Kennedy would
  • Poage, W. R. (William Robert), 1899-1987
Oral history transcript, George Hartzog, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/20/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • fundamental changes have come about, not only in the makeup of the National Park System, but also in some of the policies and guidelines. F: Before we get on to your career as Director, you are on the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
  • Biographical information; National Park System; Robert C. Horn; National Capital Planning Commission; Preservation Commission; Grand Teton National Park; recreation; 1968 Land & Water Conservation Fund Act; Yellowstone National Park; tradition
Oral history transcript, Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1967, by Mary Walton Livingston (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh -7- very much interested in that problem a long time and had worked with Will Alexander in Georgia on the various race relations programs, but then he'd been switched over to the Public Power Division and [Robert C.] Bob Weaver took his
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 2 (II), 12/10/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . And the whole process began again at the beginning of President Kennedy's Administration. And the mills have ground exceedingly long and maybe too fine--I don't know. But the whole thing has been a tremendous LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 1 (I), 10/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • : No, that was up here in the residence of the Vice President, at that time in Washington. It was then about 1961 or 1962--I believe it was 1961. The congressmen were Ray Roberts, 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Stanley R. Resor, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 and in Mr. Kennedy's Administration--has the force expanded too much and are we returning to smaller deployment of special forces groups? R: I don't think there has been a significant change
  • ; Detroit riots; Robert McNamara; Clark Clifford; cost effectiveness; role of service secretaries
Oral history transcript, Paul C. Warnke, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the Eisenhower years. That carne at about the time when I would have been eligible for a more junior position. Then when Kennedy came in in 1960 I was quite available, but nobody ever offered me the kind of a job that I wanted. I was particularly interested
Oral history transcript, Ivan L. Bennett, Jr., interview 1 (I), 12/11/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the specific problems as possible to the agencies, but many of them bring up matters of principle . I'll give you an example of the type of thing that can happen . Dr . Robert Holley who I guess yesterday or day before yesterday received the Nobel Prize
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 2 (II), 11/7/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • -- President Johnson, and this is not to make invidious comparisons for one or the other because any comparison is invidious. President Johnson is a much more through-channel President than President Kennedy was. I was never particularly surprised to get
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