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  • Contributor > Krim, Arthur B., 1910-1994 (remove)

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  • later on about their attitude, particularly after the convention in August, and the games that they started to play to wait for Nixon. That part I was privy to. I'm sure I discussed it, but I don't like to just speculate. I do not remember specifically
  • Thornberry and Abe Fortas; Senators Richard Russell and Everett Dirksen; separation of powers issue regarding Fortas; the effect of Humphrey’s campaign on LBJ’s work; cancelled arms control meeting with the Russians; measuring how LBJ would run against Nixon
  • 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
  • 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
  • remedy for discrimination? K: Yes. G: Did he? K: Why do you question that, because in my recollection that was a given, and he was very proud of the way that he had persuaded [Richard] Russell and some of the other southern 10 LBJ Presidential
  • Baker, Robert Kennedy and wiretapping; President Kennedy’s record; LBJ on civil rights and voting rights; Richard Russell; the LBJ Presidential Library; the appointment of Abe Feinberg’s brother to the Circuit Court; relations with Pakistan; first visit
  • was anticipating that Hubert Humphrey was going to foul up his Vietnam negotiations, and he said to me directly, "I do not want you to work in the Humphrey campaign." And I told him how wrong I felt that was, that any lack of helping Hubert meant helping Nixon
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Mr. Krim, let's today discuss that period after the 1968 election but before the Nixon inauguration. K: All right
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale