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Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that, Kennedy knew how far from Eisenhower Nixon really was as vice president. Nixon was kept extremely distant from current business. When I was in Washington to work on the Lebanon-Jordan speech, Jackson and I went around that same Friday morning to talk
; Tet; Chian; Glassboro; transition from LBJ to Nixon.

Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

; she became the assistant secretary until Nixon came in. K: Was it within your purview to make prescriptive recommendations as to what was desirable [or] what wasn't, if you saw--? G: Oh yes, of course. K: Did you convey these to Gardner, or back

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

we always entertained our guests with was getting to listen to Richard Nixon flush his commode, because it came right down into ours. Booth Mooney was in there and Billy Lee and me, and from time to time we'd have other secretaries come in when

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know that he leaned over backwards to be fair to Nixon and Wallace and not to give Humphrey advantages because of being vice president, simply because he himself had pledged he would not devote an hour. But when there was national security information

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a problem ever to shove under the rug anyway. The facts of the problem, the real nature of his choice, were not being changed in the smallest degree by what I wrote. very angry. It just made him [Richard] Goodwin, who was still in the White House, LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came up for that, and the Vice President, Mr. [Richard] Nixon, with Pat dropped by to pay his respects to his President's Cabinet members. In fact, we had a large quota of Republicans there: the Speaker, Joe Martin--it was a brief interlude when he

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

intense about what went on in Karachi . B: Yes, but now even that doesn't upset them very much . But most of our visitors expected to run into opposition to our role in Southeast Asia . I remember Richard Nixon visited India as a private citizen

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of increasing delicacv oi the relationship between Senator Richard Russell and the President? r. Yes. Jo vou want to expatiate a little? :JrobaolY cion't know as r.:iucn a.bouc jCartea as a udQesnip. : :.s "omeone '2lse f'Hi:ht. s1i~hc jit or ~lack over

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and confirmed by the Senate. council. F: So is the D.C. Who are you responsible to? Obviously from a legal point of view or statutory point of view, I'm responsible to the President because he is the man who nominates me. And when President Nixon came

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a Senate document on guided missiles in foreign countries. This was published by Senator [Richard] Russell, who was the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. When the Sputnik went up, it was so startling and dramatic and almost everything

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

used to go as a page or as an employee of Congressman [Richard] Kleberg and listen to Huey Long's speeches from the galleries. ~~: It \'/as when he would have been secretary. I wish I could tell you who would know, but he helped organize--they might

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had Connally come up there to speak. I.introduced him to 10,000 people up there. We took him to dinner, and Nellie was there, and I said, "Connally, there's one thing I don't understand about you: Nixon don't have any character. how you could

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

if that is II So the next day I went to the State Department and met a great, great friend. of mine, a great man, really I admire him, the then-Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, Mr. Richard Rubottom. And I said, IIWell, Mr. Rubottom, I'm here

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there at that one or just at the other one, but [Harry] Belafonte and a whole--you know, you have those names, a high-class group that we had put together. G: Did you contact these people yourself? K: With Richard Adler. Some of them I had to get, others he got

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the [Johnson] Administration will be forever associated with the credibility gap, the phrase "credibility gap," owing to its public handling of daily news concerning the war. And I think that the Nixon Administration, with all of its flaws and faults

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And yet all the fear and worry and this concern was shared--people have a very erroneous impression, I know Richard Nixon did, that people in the federal bureaucracy are liberal. Many of the people I run into in the federal bureaucracy are quite

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, if you want to put it that way. It won't stand a hitch. Did you have the feeling in 1968 that you could pull it off? W: Yes. In my humble opinion, the President would have carried California in 1968, particularly against Richard Nixon, because, back

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

will be forever associated with the credibility gap, the phrase "credibility gap," owing to its public handling of daily news concerning the war. And I think that the Nixon Administration, with all of its flaws and faults, indecencies, Nixon's known attitude

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Lyndon Johnson and Horace Richards, Vernon Whiteside, Wilton Woods, Bill Deason, Albert Harzke, Walter Grady, and Archie Wiles LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you remember the hotel that you lived at? J: I think it was called the Nixon. It was the old Driscoll Hotel, it seems to me, that we stayed in when we made our brief trip down there to meet his boss. But I believe we lived in--frankly, I don't know
; the Johnsons' first apartment; LBJ being chosen to head the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Richard Kleberg; early married life; snow in Washington, D.C.; Maury and Terrell Maverick; Bill White; Welly Hopkins

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ever remember the name of Lyndon Johnson, when he was still working for I guess it was [Richard] Kleberg in the House. G: Do you recall the first time that you met him? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -17- Not a bit in the world and I would say that there were over 150,000 people on the streets welcoming them as they came through. It was a much larger turnout for Kennedy and Johnson than Nixon got

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

been there since Truman's adminis- He had come there as a navy chief; worked under Truman, Eisen- hower, Kennedy and Johnson, and continued to work under Nixon up until, I think, just after Ford took over or just before Ford took over. Jack

Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. Nixon has improved his performance has without doubt helped him. FDR, by popular lore or nythology, was a gifted radio performer. But I don't think many pros in the business would put it that simply. He happened to have a good voice. But much.more

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)

it proved the difference in 1968 in Ohio for Nixon. He had that campaign train through there, and I don't believe Humphrey did. It brings back a bit of nostalgia of the old days. At the same time you can cover a lot of ground and there's a lot of color
Richard Daley; LBJ meeting with Eisenhower; Hubert Humphrey’s campaign; LBJ, Wilbur Mills and a surtax; Poor People's Campaign and consumer measures LBJ supported.

Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the procedural technical problems of the presidency when they moved into the White House. I suspect Richard Nixon right now is going through the same kind of cram course despite his lengthy experience. And Johnson I don't think learned a great deal as Vice

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

north, the intellectual guys. There was plenty in Lyndon to appeal to an easterner. Christ, he was doing what the Kennedys hadn't done. Christ, he was doing what these guys wanted done. But in the same way, you know, he took on this guy [Richard] Goodwin

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Terry -- I -- 17 Humphrey Democrat. And now the country was in the hands of Richard Nixon. All I could think about was getting a book together about the black soldier and then getting back overseas, out of the United States

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Richard Nixon was in Congress and one Richard Nixon was about to suddenly steal this away LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)

of the A&O and what it was all about. But while (inaudible) it would be useful for posterity for us to get some of this information on tape particularly about the individual members. Bill, you were there, you and Lyndon Johnson and Horace Richards and Vernon
Richards, Vernon Whiteside; LBJ's college career; biographical information on Walter Grady, Deason, Albert Harzke, Wilton Woods, Archie Wiles, Hollis Frazer; jobs handed down from one White Star to another; biographical information on Sidney "Sub" Pyland

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Strom Thurmond and others wanted to hold this vacancy for the new president, hopefully Richard Nixon, and it's nothing more than that. They'll never convince me that anything more was behind the effort. Later, of course, as it developed

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in trouble. And he--I was sitting next to [Sargent] Shriver and Moyers and [Richard] Goodwin and [Willard] Wirtz. I forget who else was there. And he began giving anecdotes from India--[Laughter]--and he came to this one! And I had already told Bill about

Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

And tried to keep my contact at absolutely a ground Didn't talk to leaders. There was one difficulty: whether we should tell [r",layor Richard] Daley I was in there, because politically.. We finally decided, Watson and I -- he may consulted

Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of say, "Well, we expect you to say that," you know. But you know--while the "New Left" calls the New York Times and the Post the Establishment press, Spiro T. Agnew doesn't. Nor does Richard Nixon. Maybe we've come a long ways when the supporters
First meeting with LBJ in March, 1946; Ganson Purcell; James Rowe; Sam Rayburn; W. Averell Harriman; Truman’s anti-inflation program; General Counsel for AEC; Herbert Marks; Kenneth D. McKellar; Dr. Edward U. Condon; General McArthur; Richard

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was it that [Richard] Helms became head? Because I was there that day and he was very complimentary about Helms. We all met upstairs in the living quarters and then went downstairs for the Helms swearing in. I would say that was in 1966 sometime, wasn't it? G: I'll

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

by Nixon, who discussed this with me as a result of a detailed conversation with the President-Elect. The Nixon Administration ran with it. I was asked by the President to co-chair a citizens' committee to carry on this advocacy. I considered it totally non
continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office

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