PRESIDENTIAL SERIES: GLOSSARY -LANDSLIDE (SPOILER THREAD)

[Bryan]

Indeed, Mark, Honey Fitz was a big influence on JFK and family.

[Bryan]

Ted Sorenson:



Lawyer and writer Ted Sorenson had a significant role in the administration of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, for whom he served as an inner-cirlce adviser and speech writer. Graduating first in his law class at the University of Nebraska, Sorenson worked as an assistant to Kennedy, who was currently serving as a Democratic senator for Massachusetts. During his presidential campaign, he became his strategist and speech writer, helping to compose some of his most famous addresses. After Kennedy's assassination in November of 1963, he remained briefly in President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration before returning to private life.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Sore...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/brea...
Ted Sorensen

[Bryan]

John Nance Garner:



John Nance Garner was born on November 22, 1868, in Red River County, Texas. As a young man, he worked odd jobs and played semipro baseball before departing for Tennessee, where he spent a semester at Vanderbilt University. Health problems prompted him to move back to Texas, where he studied law and continued to supplement his income playing baseball before gaining admittance to the bar in 1890. Shortly afterwards, he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and moved to Uvalde, Texas, for the dry climate. In Uvalde, he served as a county judge and a member of the state legislature before winning election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1902.

Garner used the early years of his House tenure to make friends and establish a record of party loyalty that helped him ascend to prominent positions on the Ways and Means Committee as well as the Committee on Committees, which handled committee appointments. He himself authored few bills throughout his long tenure in the House but commanded considerable influence through his wealth of political friendships and legislative skills. When the Democrats won a slim majority in 1931, Garner became Speaker of the House.

Having emerged as a well-known party leader, "Cactus Jack" was as a prominent contender for the presidential nomination in 1932. Although he commanded significant support, he did not have enough to capture the nomination. The front-runners, however, did not have the necessary two-thirds majority to win the nomination. Garner's campaign manager, fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, held a meeting with Franklin Roosevelt's campaign manager, and they reached an agreement to transfer Garner's delegates to Roosevelt. Garner was subsequently offered the vice presidency, although the two later denied that the arrangement was the product of political deal-making. Garner commented that the vice presidency "might be a nice way for me to taper off my career." He spent much of the campaign in Uvalde and made only two speeches throughout the campaign, which Roosevelt won with a decisive victory.

President Roosevelt had an extremely ambitious agenda for his first term and used Garner's knowledge and experience to help him execute it. Throughout the first term, Garner was an invaluable member of the new administration as it pursued revolutionary solutions to address the Great Depression. Garner used his political contacts in both the House and Senate to assist passage of Roosevelt's agenda. As presiding officer of the Senate, he sometimes descended to the Senate floor to personally lobby for bills.

Although he provided essential assistance to Roosevelt throughout the first term, differences between the two men began to sour the relationship. While Garner generally supported emergency legislation to address the Depression, he was not comfortable with all of the New Deal programs. He was particularly critical of the Wagner Labor Relations Act, the Social Security Act, and the Revenue Act. Furthermore, Roosevelt's attempts to direct the legislative agenda offended Garner's deeply held belief in the importance of an independent Congress. While he was renominated in 1936, his role within the administration changed profoundly.

In late 1936, Roosevelt's approach to labor strikes led to a heated exchange between the President and Garner, and from then on the vice president became more a figure of opposition than cooperation. Garner opposed Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan and was noticeably absent during the congressional debates regarding the proposal. Roosevelt also went against Garner's advice and aggressively tried to unseat conservative Democrats in the 1938 midterm elections. The President's intervention earned him substantial enmity from conservative members of his own party, many of them close friends of Garner, and helped stall his legislative agenda.

When Roosevelt began to hint at the possibility of a third term, Garner was aghast and declared his own candidacy in December 1939. Although he attracted some support, Garner knew that Roosevelt would take the nomination if he sought it. The increasing instability in Europe assured Roosevelt's nomination and eventual election. Garner did not reconcile with Roosevelt, however, and did not even vote in the 1940 election.

John Nance Garner was an exceptionally powerful vice president in both a constructive and obstructionist sense. He initially helped pilot Roosevelt's ambitious proposals through Congress but later came to embody the opposition of conservative Democrats to the New Deal. Although he famously remarked that the vice presidency was "not worth a bucket of warm spit," Garner derived significant power from his understanding of the limitations and possibilities of his office. His powers of persuasion and parliamentary skill enabled him to make the most of an office with so little formal power. He was also the last vice president to act primarily as a legislative officer, as the increasingly internationalist role of the country and advances in communications made the vice president more active and visible.

Garner retired to Uvalde after the 1940 election and lived there until he died just before his 99th birthday on November 7, 1967.
(Source: http://millercenter.org/president/fdr...)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nan...
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/...
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/museums/gar...

[Bryan]

Robert Kerr:



a Senator from Oklahoma; born in the Chickasaw Indian Territory, Okla., near the present town of Ada, September 11, 1896; attended public schools; taught school; graduated from East Central Normal School, Ada, Okla., in 1911; studied law at the University of Oklahoma; during the First World War served as a second lieutenant with the First Field Artillery, United States Army, 1917-1919; captain and later major in Oklahoma National Guard 1921-1929; admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 1922 and commenced the practice of law in Ada, Okla.; drilling contractor and oil producer; chairman of the board of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.; special justice, Oklahoma supreme court 1931; president, Oklahoma County Juvenile Council 1935-1936; member, Unofficial Pardon and Parole Board 1935-1938; Governor of Oklahoma 1943-1947; chairman, Southern Governors Conference 1945-1946; Democratic national committeeman 1940-1948; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1948; reelected in 1954, and again in 1960, and served from January 3, 1949, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 1, 1963; chairman, Select Committee on National Water Resources (Eighty-sixth Congress), Committee on Aeronautical and Space Sciences (Eighty-seventh Congress); interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla., and subsequently at the Kerr family homestead near Ada, Okla.
(Source: http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/...)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_S...
(no image)Robert S. Kerr: The Senate Years by Anne Hodges Morgan

[Ann D]

Bryan,
Thanks for the information. I always wondered how much of Kennedy's speeches were Kennedy and how much were Sorensen. The president gets all the credit in any case.

The information on Garner was particularly interesting. JFK's legislative record might have been a lot better if LBJ had been as actively involved as Garner was during FDR's first term. It's interesting to speculate, at least. I'll find out more as I read the Caro book.

[Bryan]

You are welcome, Ann, I do hope these entries are helpful.

Apparently, JFK and Sorenson's brains were one in that Sorenson could finish JFK's thoughts. One of the great speech-writers of all time, I think.

[Mark]

Bryan wrote: Apparently, JFK and Sorenson's brains were one in that Sorenson could finish JFK's thoughts. One of the great speech-writers of all time..."

Sorenson passed away in this month two years ago.

[Ann D]

I think we all agree that Caro is a marvelous writer. I was trying to find out his plans for the fifth and final volume of the Johnson biography, especially in light of the fact that Caro is already 76 years old. (The fourth was also supposed to be the last book in the series, but Caro had so much material that it ended up being a separate book).

I came across a long article about Caro and how he writes online. It was published in Esquire magazine on April 8, 2012. This is the online address:
http://www.esquire.com/features/rober...

Caro is tremendously organized and works from detailed outlines. He has finished the outline for book 5, has "mostly" finished the research, and even has the last line of the book written. He says he should be able to finish it in two or three years. But when you read about what a perfectionist Caro is, you start to have doubts that this can happen. He has left instructions in his will that no one should finish the biography if he dies before it is complete.

There is so much left of Johnson's story after THE PASSAGE OF POWER. I sincerely hope that he can complete the biography.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

That is interesting that he left that in his will. He is beginning to sound like Bilbo Baggins from The Hobbit.

by J.R.R. Tolkien

It would be more than a shame if he did not finish it. It really is his "magnum opus".

[Bryan]

No kidding, odd that he wouldn't let someone he trusts finish it for him. I hope he has a fitness trainer and dietician.

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

That is what I was thinking (smile)

[G]

I was looking for more information on the Adolphus Hotel Incident (which was both incredibly offensive and masterful) and came across this tumblr link to LBJ's library. Interesting, and I hope this is the correct spot to post this.

LBJ Time Machine

[Bryan]

G

It should go in week three thread with the URL pointing to that particular page.

[G]

Even though it has much more than is specific to that chapter? It basically gives his life story. Thanks.

[Bryan]

Sorry, G, your original post was a little confusing. You talked about the Adolphus Hotel incident, which should be cited in the other thread with a direct link.

However, the general timeline you cite is fine.

[Tomerobber]

G wrote: "I was looking for more information on the Adolphus Hotel Incident (which was both incredibly offensive and masterful) and came across this tumblr link to LBJ's library. Interesting, and I hope thi..."
Thanks G for the link . . . I bookmarked it to view at leisure . . great info!

[G]

Bryan wrote: "Sorry, G, your original post was a little confusing. You talked about the Adolphus Hotel incident, which should be cited in the other thread with a direct link.

However, the general timeline you ..."

Bryan, I am sorry. I need to be more specific when I post - I tend not to edit. But thanks for posting the link on the appropriate thread. It does look like a very interesting site. It is well put together, in my opinion. I love the newspaper excerpts.

[Bryan]

No worries, G, part of my job :-)

[Bryan]

George Parr:



George B. Parr, the political boss of Duval County for more than thirty years, son of Elizabeth Allen and Archer Parr, was born in San Diego, Texas, on March 1, 1901. At thirteen he served as his father's pageboy in the Texas Senate. Despite a disastrous educational record, which included brief enrollments at Texas A&M, the University of Texas, Southwestern University, and a trade school in Kansas City, George Parr entered the University of Texas law school as a special student in 1923 and passed the state bar examination three years later without earning a law degree. In 1923 he also married Thelma Duckworth of Corpus Christi. After a divorce and remarriage in the late 1930s, their relationship ended with a second divorce in 1949. From his marriage to Thelma and a later one to Eva Perez, Parr had two daughters. The disinclination of his brothers, Givens and Atlee, to pursue political careers paved the way for George to become the political heir apparent to his father, who had ruled Duval County since 1907. George Parr entered the political arena in 1926, when Archer chose him to complete Givens's term as Duval county judge. George was soon managing local affairs as the aging boss, already in his late sixties, struggled with various physical ailments and became increasingly preoccupied with state and national matters. In fact, George even surpassed his father in the role of "El Patrón" for the impoverished Mexican-American laborers who formed the majority of the county population and served as the mainstay of the Democratic machine. He became far more fluent in Spanish than Archer, tirelessly learned the names of his constituents and their children, and provided help in times of need in return for one concession-absolute loyalty. Under his leadership, both corruption and paternalism flourished in Duval County.

Not even a conviction for income-tax evasion in 1934 and his subsequent imprisonment for nine months in 1936 and 1937 destroyed Parr's growing political power. His handpicked candidates continued to sweep county elections, and by the time of his father's death in 1942, Parr stood as the undisputed boss of Duval County-in both a political and an economic sense. He amassed a sizable fortune with income from banking, mercantile, ranching, and oil interests and, of course, from the public treasury. His political influence extended into other South Texas counties as well. With pardon from President Harry Truman in 1946, he even reclaimed the right to run for public office, and later held the posts of county judge and sheriff for his home county.

The remainder of Parr's political career was highlighted by a seemingly endless series of spectacular scandals, involving election fraud, graft on the grand scale, and violence. His most celebrated scheme decided the outcome of the United States Senate race between Coke R. Stevenson and Lyndon B. Johnson in 1948. With Stevenson the apparent winner, election officials in Jim Wells County, probably acting on Parr's orders, reported an additional 202 votes for Johnson a week after the primary runoff and provided the future president with his eighty-seven-vote margin of victory for the whole state. Amid charges of fraud, the voting lists disappeared. Even more sordid controversies followed. As strong challenges from the Freedom party, consisting mainly of World War II veterans, developed in several South Texas counties, including Duval, two critics of Parr's rule and the son of another met violent deaths. While denying Parr's involvement in two of the killings, his biographer, Dudley Lynch, concedes that the evidence against Parr in the shooting of the son of Jacob Floyd, an attorney for the Freedom party, was both "highly circumstantial" and "highly incriminating." After this third murder, Governor Allan Shivers, Texas attorney general John Ben Shepperd, and federal authorities launched all-out campaigns to destroy the Parr machine. Investigations of the 1950s produced over 650 indictments against ring members, but Parr survived the indictments and his own conviction for federal mail fraud through a complicated series of dismissals and reversals on appeal. In the face of another legal offensive in the 1970s and a rebellion within his own organization, he finally relented. While appealing a conviction and five-year sentence for federal income tax evasion, the Duke of Duval committed suicide at his ranch, Los Harcones, on April 1, 1975.
(Source: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/on...)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_B...
John E. Clark

[Ann D]

George Parr was certainly a very colorful figure!

Have political bosses completely disappeared from American politics?

[Bryan]

Good question, Ann, I'm not sure...there might be some out there, but might not the pull that they once had...

[Mark]

While U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Westmoreland was the superintendent to the West Point Military Academy, President Kennedy gave a historical commencement address to the graduating class of 1962. In his speech he envisioned “...another kind of war, new in its intensity, ancient in its origin – war by guerrillas, subversives, insurgents, assassins, war by ambush instead of by eroding and exhausting the enemy instead of engaging him.”

In January 1964, just a few months after the death of JFK, the names of four military candidates including Westmoreland were offered to President Johnson to command operations in Vietnam. The decision to elect Westmoreland was likely made by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, but it is interesting to note that Gen. Westmoreland never meet LBJ during the approval process, nor he did not meet with LBJ or McNamara upon his brief return trip back to the states in December of 1964.

Lewis Sorley

[Craig]

Unfortunately, Caro really ignored all the aspects of dealing with Vietnam during the JFK/LBJ transitional period from 1963-64 in his otherwise outstanding book. I don't remember reading in the book, for example, anything about the event Mark described above. I know LBJ made several trips to Vietnam while Kennedy was president and none of those are given much attention either.

[Bryan]

I think most likely, Caro will back-track in the fifth volume. You get a sense he has a theme and getting too much into Vietnam wouldn't fit.

I suspect his last book will chronicle his fall, thus Vietnam.

[Bryan]

Mark wrote: "While U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Westmoreland was the superintendent to the West Point Military Academy, President Kennedy gave a historical commencement address to the graduating class of 1962. I..."

Mark, have you read this book? It looks really good.

Lewis Sorley

[Bryan]

Bay of Pigs:

was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States. The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the invading combatants within three days.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_P...
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-...
http://www.foia.cia.gov/bay_of_pigs.asp

Howard Jones

[Bryan]

Sarah Hughes:



Sarah T. Hughes was an attorney, legislator, women's rights activist, United Nations supporter, and Texas' first female state and federal judge. A member of a Dallas law firm from 1923 to 1935, she was elected to her first term in the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1930 and voted "Most Valuable Member" her second term. In 1935, she became Texas' first female district judge and was reelected seven times. Hughes ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress in 1946 and the Texas Supreme Court in 1958.

She was national president of the Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs in 1952. The national organization spearheaded her nomination for the vice presidency on the Democratic Party ticket that year, the first woman ever considered, though she withdrew her name.

Hughes helped secure an amendment to the Texas Constitution allowing women to serve on juries in 1954 and headed the Dallas United Nations Association in the 1950s. In 1960, she was Dallas County co-chair of the Kennedy-Johnson campaign, and the following year, President John F. Kennedy appointed her Texas' first female federal judge. After Kennedy's assassination in 1963, she administered the Presidential oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson.
(Source: http://www.womenintexashistory.org/bios/)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_T....
Darwin Payne

[Bryan]

Evelyn Lincoln:



Evelyn Norton was born June 25, 1909, on a farm in Polk County, Nebraska. She moved to Washington when her father, John Nathaniel Norton (1878-1960), was elected to the House of Representatives in 1927.

Evelyn received a bachelor's degree from George Washington University in 1930. While attending law school there, she met her future husband Harold Lincoln. The couple moved to New York but later returned to Washington. They were both active members of the Democratic Party.

In 1952 Evelyn Lincoln began working for Elijah Lewis Forrester (Georgia). The following year she became the personal secretary to John F. Kennedy. She held the post for the next ten years.

Lincoln later claimed that in November, 1963, Kennedy decided that because of the emerging Bobby Baker scandal he was going to drop Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate in the 1964 election. John F. Kennedy told Lincoln that he was going to replace Johnson with Terry Sanford.

Lincoln was in the motorcade in Dallas when John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Every year on the anniversary of the assassination she would go to the Arlington National Cemetery and place three long-stemmed red roses on Kennedy's grave. She was also the author of two best-selling books, My 12 Years With John F. Kennedy and Kennedy and Johnson.

Evelyn Lincoln died on 11th May, 1995, in Georgetown University Hospital of complications after surgery for cancer.
(Source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_L...
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Kennedy and Johnson by Evelyn Lincoln

[Mark]

Bryan wrote: "Mark wrote: "While U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Westmoreland was the superintendent to the West Point Military Academy, President Kennedy gave a historical commencement address to the graduating cla..."

I'm currently about 40% through it. It is a very good book.
Lewis Sorley

[Bryan]

Robert McNamara:



Robert Strange McNamara was born in San Francisco, California, on June 9, 1916, to Robert James McNamara, a wholesale shoe industry executive, and Clara Nell NcNamara. He was educated in public schools before going on to receive a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley; he earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1939.

McNamara spent a year working for Price Waterhouse and Company before returning to Harvard to teach at the Business School from 1940 to 1943. While at Harvard, he also instructed Army Air Corps officers in statistical techniques and war management. He later went to England to aide the Air Corps with efforts to support bombing operations.

He continued to support the war effort through his statistical and management efforts. Following the close of hostilities, McNamara returned to the United States and joined a group of young military officers, later called the "whiz kids," who helped turn around the financially troubled Ford Motor Company. McNamara served as general manager and vice president of Ford's automotive division during the 1950s and in 1960 became the first man outside the Ford family to be named president of the Ford Motor Company. Later that year, President-elect John Kennedy asked McNamara to join his cabinet, despite the latter being a registered Republican.

McNamara became the secretary of defense in January 1961. In that post, he brought the military under greater and more centralized civilian control. In doing so, he enlarged his staff and moved to centralize decision-making authority. McNamara also created the Defense Intelligence Agency to assess intelligence operations of all three military branches. In addition, he established the Defense Supply Agency to standardize the purchasing of items between the three military branches.

McNamara also helped to develop the policies of "second strike capability" and "flexible response." Later, during the Lyndon Johnson administration, McNamara became the prime architect of America's strategy in Vietnam, believing that the build up of conventional forces as a part of "flexible response" capability would enable the military to deal more effectively with communist guerrillas. Vietnam became an all-consuming preoccupation during the Johnson years, however, leading McNamara, in 1968, to leave office as secretary of defense.

He became president of the World Bank the following year, a post he held until 1981. McNamara remained active with nonprofit groups such as the Ford Foundation, the Brookings Institution, and the Barbara Ward Fund. He also continued to work independently on issues such as the threat of nuclear arms, the population explosion, world hunger, East-West relations, and the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa.
(Source: http://millercenter.org/president/lbj...)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M...
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...
http://whitehousetapes.net/exhibit/fo...
Robert S. McNamara
Deborah Shapley

[Bryan]

Dean Rusk



Born on February 9, 1909, in Cherokee County, Georgia, Dean Rusk grew up in poverty. His father, a Presbyterian minister, was forced to leave the pulpit due to illness and barely made ends meet as a farmer and mail carrier. Rusk was determined to receive an education and worked his way through Davidson College. After graduating in 1931, he traveled to Oxford, where he studied on a Rhodes Scholarship.

Upon his return to the United States in 1934, Rusk joined the political science department at Mills College in California, becoming dean of faculty in 1938. During World War II, Rusk fought in the China-Burma-India theater, where he became deputy chief of staff to General Joseph Stilwell. Noted for his diplomatic ability, Rusk would also become the protege of General George Marshall.

In 1946, after his discharge from the Army and at the request of General Marshall, Rusk joined the State Department as assistant chief of international security affairs. Several months later, he accepted the post of special assistant to Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson. In 1947, however, Rusk returned to the State Department as director of the Office of Special Political Affairs, where he served as an aide to Robert Lovett and Dean Acheson. Three years later, he was appointed assistant secretary of state for Far Eastern affairs. Rusk left the State Department in 1952 to take the presidential post at the Rockefeller Foundation.

In 1960, President John F. Kennedy appointed Dean Rusk as secretary of state, a post he would hold from January 1961 through January 1969. His most notable contributions in that capacity included his participation in negotiations for the 1963 test ban treaty and in conferences on the Berlin situation; he also supported economic and military aide to Korea.

Rusk also helped formulate American policy towards Indochina and became one of the leading defenders of American policy during the Vietnam War. After leaving the State Department, Rusk became a professor of law at the University of Georgia Law School. He also continued to work for economic and social aid to Central America and campaigned in defense of the antiballistic missile (ABM) treaty. Rusk died in Athens, Georgia, on December 20, 1994.
(Source: http://millercenter.org/president/ken...)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Rusk
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...

[Bryan]

Glenn T. Seaborg:



was a world-renowned nuclear chemist, educator, scientific advisor to 10 U.S. presidents, humanitarian, and Nobel laureate in chemistry. He is probably best known for his leadership of the team that in 1941 accomplished the first chemical separation and positive identification of plutonium and his "revolutionary" actinide concept (1944) in which he placed the first 14 elements heavier than actinium in the periodic table of elements as a 5f transition series under the lanthanide 4f transition series. He went on to be codiscoverer of 9 elements beyond plutonium, culminating in 1974 in the production of element 106, later named seaborgium in his honor.

Seaborg was also well known as an educator and for his tireless efforts to improve U.S. science education at all levels. He served as chancellor of the University of California at Berkeley from 1958 until 1961 when he was called by President-elect John F. Kennedy to chair the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, a position he held until 1971. Seaborg led the negotiations resulting in the limited nuclear test ban treaty prohibiting the testing of nuclear devices in the atmosphere or under the sea, approved by the U.S. Senate in 1963. He strongly supported the use of nuclear energy as a source of electricity, and led delegations to some 63 countries, including the Soviet Union to promote the peaceful uses of atomic energy.
(Source: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/...)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_T....
http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/s...
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prize...

[Bryan]

National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

It created the National Aeronautics and Space Council.

http://history.nasa.gov/spaceact.html

[Mark]

All the photos in Caro’s book are priceless. Kennedy was certainly on the fast track as the youthful senator was positioned rather close to Senator Johnson at LBJ’s birthday party in 1957.

[Bryan]

Yeah, it was the time he had to beg LBJ...not anymore, right?

[Bryan]

JFK's Inauguration Speech:

http://millercenter.org/president/spe...

In the video, you see LBJ shaking JFK's hand, and be one of the few still standing and starting a standing ovation. It does come off too eager...

[Mark]

To say the least there was much friction between JFK & LBJ. Bryan do you feel this was the most polarizing duo in White House history? What president & VP do you feel enjoyed each others company the most?

[Bryan]

Clinton and Gore had a great relationship, even on a personal level.

Gosh, the worst...Jefferson and Burr were bitter enemies. Jefferson even pushed for Burr's indictment. Also, Calhoun and Jackson became bitter and it got personal. They even exchanged some hateful letters.

[G]

There is a new exhibit at the National Archives on the Cuban Missile Crisis, for anyone in or around DC.

National Archives press release

There is also a webcast today at the JFK library on the Crisis. I believe it is at 12:30 EST. (I don't have adobe flash, so I can't check - sorry)

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Events-and-...

[Bryan]

Thanks, g. Good stuff

[Bryan]

George Reedy:



Staff consultant, Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee, U.S. Senate, 1951-1952; Staff Director, Minority Policy Committee, 1953-1954; Staff Director, Majority Policy Committee, 1955-1960; Special Assistant Vice President Johnson, 1961-1963; Press Secretary for President Johnson, 1964-1966; White House Aide, 1968. He was White House Press Secretary from 1964 to 1965. Reedy served under President Lyndon B. Johnson.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_R...
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...
(no images)The Presidency in Flux &
Lyndon B. Johnson: A Memoir by George E. Reedy

[Bryan]

Doris Goodwin:



In 1967, Kearns went to Washington, D.C., as a White House Fellow during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. Johnson offered the young intern a job as his assistant, an offer that was not withdrawn even after an article by Kearns appeared in The New Republic laying out a scenario for Johnson's removal from office over his conduct of the war in Vietnam.[5]

After Johnson left office in 1969, Kearns taught government at Harvard for ten years, including a course on the American presidency. During this period she also assisted Johnson in drafting his memoirs. Her first book, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream, which drew upon her conversations with the late president, was published in 1977. It became a New York Times bestseller and provided a launching pad for her literary career.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Ke...
http://www.doriskearnsgoodwin.com/
Doris Kearns Goodwin

[Bryan]

Richard Goodwin:



Richard Goodwin was born in Boston on 7th December, 1931. He graduated from Tufts University in 1953. He then went on to study law at Harvard University.

Goodwin joined the Massachusetts State bar in 1958. He worked for Felix Frankfurter before being appointed as special counsel to the Legislative Oversight Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 1959 John F. Kennedy appointed Goodwin as a member of his speech writing staff. The following year he became Kennedy's assistant special counsel. Goodwin was also a member of Kennedy's Task Force on Latin American Affairs and in 1961, was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, a position he held until 1963. As one of Kennedy's specialists in Latin-American affairs, Goodwin helped develop the Alliance for Progress, an economic development program for Latin America. Goodwin also served as secretary-general of the International Peace Corps.

After Kennedy's death Goodwin joined the staff of President Lyndon B. Johnson where he worked as a speechwriter and adviser. Goodwin resigned in 1965 and became a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and a visiting professor of public affairs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Goodwin continued to be involved in politics and wrote speeches for presidential candidates Robert Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy and Edmund Muskie. He also wrote for several magazines, including The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. He also published The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1986) and Remembering America (1988).

In March, 2001, Goodwin was a member of a United States delegation that visited the scene of the Bay of Pigs battle. The party included Arthur Schlesinger (historian), Robert Reynolds, (the CIA station chief in Miami during the invasion), Jean Kennedy Smith (sister of John F. Kennedy), Alfredo Duran (Bay of Pigs veteran) and Wayne S. Smith (Executive Secretary of his Latin American Task Force).
(Source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_...
Richard N. Goodwin

[Bryan]

Horace Busby:



Staff, Lyndon B. Johnson's House and Senate Offices, 1948-1950; Staff, U.S. Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee, 1950-1953; Consultant, U.S. Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee, 1957-58; Advisor to the Vice President, 1961-1963; Special Assistant to the President and Secretary of the Cabinet, 1963-1965.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/03/us/...
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...

[Bryan]

Justice Tom C. Clark:



Tom C. Clark served as Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court from 1949 to 1967, and was the first Texan to serve on the Court. Born in Dallas, Texas, September 23, 1899, Clark received his law degree from the University of Texas in 1922. He joined the Justice Department in 1937 and rose through the ranks. President Truman appointed him U.S. Attorney General in 1945 and to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1949. Clark resigned from the Court in 1967 when his son Ramsey Clark was appointed Attorney General, and afterwards sat on the Courts of Appeal in all eleven U.S. Circuits and in federal district court. An advocate of improved judicial administration, Clark chaired several American Bar Association committees on judicial administration and was the first director of the Federal Judicial Center.
(Source: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlaw/...)

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_C._C...
http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?j...
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/...

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Here is an interesting site: (50th anniversary was this weekend) - of course the crisis continued for thirteen days)

October 13, 1962

50th: The Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis

http://www.cubanmissilecrisis.org

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Kennedy signs the order for the naval blockade of Cuba on Oct. 24, 1962, in the White House.

Source: AFP/Getty Images

Other great images:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles...

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

Cuban Missile Crisis:

Kennedy Library: (audio)

http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-...

[Bryan]

Thank-you, Bentley.

Transcripts from White House tapes during this crisis can be found at:

http://whitehousetapes.net/content/tr...
http://whitehousetapes.net/content/tr...

[Bentley, Group Founder, Leader, Chief]

You are welcome - thanks for the transcripts.