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Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- . Kennedy, Mr . Nixon, and Mr . Albert all in one little huddle . They were the only � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
- the tragedy of Robert Kennedy, and he called me up and said, "r want you to put men on that right away," about six o'clock in the morning, "put good men on it," and so forth and so on, which we did. M: So he does not at weird hours and frequently
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- it; no state commission ever has. F: You've got people like you, Andy Brimmer, Robert Weaver, and others scattered around. ~ Now then, you've g.ot something like downtown New York, the financial district, which has been pretty much lilywhite. Do you get
- : Of course, that was primarily a Kennedy campaign. OM: That's true. F: Mr. Johnson was subordinate in this instance, except you did have . . . Vr'1: We had the tea F: You had the tea Vfvl: Yes. F: Tell me a little bit about them. VM: ~'Jell
- . I said, "In Southeast Asia we need a policy as to where we're going . What are we there for? What are the conditions for us to leave?" I tried to get Kennedy to see this . I pointed out that in Korea we never knew what we wanted there . we
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- . So I was one of them. Pat Kennedy, who was later to head up VISTA and who is now the city manager of Columbia, Maryland, was another. Jerry Bruno was the third one, and you know who Jerry is. Mel Cottone, who was also a Kennedy advance man
- thing that concerned me was I couldn't really envision anybody else lead~~3 this country as Presidc':t. None of the people that \'icre on the scene, Hhich of course at that tir.:c included Senator Robert Kcnr.cdy and Vice President Humphrey-I had net
- impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
- Robert M . LaFollette came there to lecture he That was Robert M . LaFollette, said, "Lindley, I want you to meet him ." Jr ., whom I later served in the Congress with . He did the same with reference to permitting me to get close, as it were, to Vice
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette
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- 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
- a terrible commentary. P: Anyhow, on the way back, I was flown to Honolulu to participate in one of [Robert] McNamara's big flying circuses. G: Of 1962? P: 1962, yes. This was August, I think. And I was asked to give a brief presentation of what we
- about the one where Kefauver and Kennedy-G: Oh, I was there. F: And Adlai was, for a second time. G: I'm sorry, I will go back. You see, these years! All right. Yes, I was at the convention. F: As a delegate? G: No, Walter asked me to come
- we're talking about now. F: Right. P: The farm-to-market roads, they were beginning to talk about them but not do anything about them. You see, the Highway Commission had just been formed with Robert Hubbard as chairman, and they were not too active
- Kennedy, known as Executive Order 10988, which set up for the first time a formal government policy with respect to the rights of federal empoyees to be in unions. There was never any question, there was never any deviation, there was 'never any compromise
- meant Kennedy. When he talked about his conversation with Dean, you knew it was Rusk. When he talked about anybody in any position at all, he used nicknames and first names, and I think he had the chief justice of the Supreme Court that came out
- work for the Kennedy project. H: Yes I did. There were a couple of things. First, the members of the council during the Kennedy Administration, not all of them, but a group of us got together with Paul Samuelson and Joe Pechman. M:. Was Kermit
- 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
- 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
- with the Johnson-Rayburn group, but I have never been heavily involved with the party political machine in Texas. F: \fuen you come down to 1960, it is evi.dent that Johnson is probably going to run against Kennedy and whoever else, Stuart Symington and other
- 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
- with Lyndon Johnson. A: I first became acquainted with him only after the Kennedy assassination. I had seen him around the White House occasionally, and I guess we nodded, though I doubt that he was sure who I was. F: But you never had any real
- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Connell -- I -- 2 research for the State Department. [He] left Humphrey in about 1958 to go with Chet Bowles over to India, came back and I think became director of intelligence and research under Kennedy. He's now
- of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
- Biographical information; what his jobs were for LBJ; how the staff decided which invitations LBJ would accept; Senator Dodd; advance work; Bobby Baker; working with the Kennedy staff; the JFK assassination and Sinclair’s work in the following days
- been his supporter from then on; all through the years we were close friends. I flew with him after the great events out in California, when the meeting adjourned with Johnson being [the nominee for] vice president and Bobby [Kennedy] still fussing
- 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
- with usually in the Senate? B : No, but on occasion it would happen. a very important point . My wife raises a point that is It's not unimportant that she was born in Fort Worth and lived in Dallas until she came up here with the Kennedy Administration
- : More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh This is the second session with Kenneth M . Birkhead . Sir, we were talking last time about your position right after the 1960 election at the beginning of the Kennedy
- of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
- that so much I guess I don't know whether I had the feeling, or it's just been drummed into me. F: You and George Romney, you've been brainwashed? K: No, I think for one thing a lot of them were big Kennedy fans, and they looked on Johnson as something
- a bi t of trouble. There were huge crowds out, and he and Kennedy were in the parade; they were the main dignitaries. M: When did you see C: I can't be sure just when it was I saw him again. t1: Did you see him between that 1960 parade and the time
- in October of ' 6 0 . The man he had named previously, who had formerly been District Commissioner, died before reaching Quito, and so I was the next one chosen. F: I don't want to pre-empt what people working on John F. Kennedy might ask you sometime
- Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit
- : Well, as I say, I supported Goldwater . No . And there, of course, as between Johnson and Kennedy, I would have been quite happy to have seen Johnson nominated over Kennedy . M: That's what I was thinking--when they were building up to this Now, you
- important precedent. And, as I remember, Lyndon Johnson did work for that bill. B: Yes, he did. Then what was your attitude toward the 1960 Democratic ticket of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson? R: Quite frankly, I was very distressed when Mr. Johnson
- 2 B: Were Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson, after him, especially interested in this concept of self-help feature? J: Yes. I think they both emphasized it. Probably because I was a little closer to it later, I would say that President Johnson
- was to cover the President Kennedy tour through Texas. I was responsible for setting up our coverage and planning our coverage. in Dallas. As a result of that I laid on a little extra help Goodness knows I didn't have in mind any kind of real trouble
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- the news, the two of us were alone. know, it was just sort of, I guess, blank. It You I don'tthinkwe spilled into the halh"ays, but just a blank,empty feeling. At the time we heard that President Kennedy had been shot, we didn't hear much beyond
- , his accepting it? D: No, I really wasn't. Tell you what I did. After Kennedy was nominated on the first ballot--of course, I was disappointed--I got on the plane and carne on horne. F: But not surprised? D: Not surprised, no. I got there a day
- at the time of the assassination of President Kennedy? H: I was on North Capitol Street just at the main Post Office Building. F: What did you do--hear it by radio or word of mouth? H: Well, I stopped for a traffic signal and someone drove up to my side
- about as usual, about as I have for the past twenty, twenty-five years. F: You didn't have any opportunity to observe his relationships then with President Kennedy? K: Heavens, F: Where were you on that November 22, 1963? Here in Austin? K: Right
- the same trip that Kennedy made in 1960, and I was with him on that trip. It was a great trip. and it did a lot of good. I honestly believe that if Humphrey had come through . . . I don't mean [to criticize] him personally. I don't think [he.made