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- along. is this: I think the reason he did in spite of the relations between him and [Richard] Nixon as of present [after the election of 1968], he shared the intense dislike of Nixon that Truman and Rayburn had, and the thought of Nixon as President
- of his staff; Great Society programs; JFK didn’t believe in domino theory; Bay of Pigs; Tom White; Richard Nixon.
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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- communities throughout this country and did some sizing up of what the leadership was saying is needed. He saw those reports, wanted them. If Nixon were to do that today, it would be a great moment to him. I don't think there's any compassion in the man
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
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- Nelson, Richard Henry, 1939-2000
- Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- : Yarborough never was really part of the southern group. B: No. Well, neither he nor Johnson joined the southern caucus. Johnson and Senator [Richard] Russell of Georgia, of course, worked hand in glove on everything. They were very close to each other
- as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
- 27, 1969 INTERVIEWEE : RICHARD BOLLING (with occasional comments by Jim Grant Bolling) INTERVIEWER : PAIGE MULHOLLAN PLACE : Congressman Bolling's office, Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, D .C . Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's begin by simply
- See all online interviews with Richard Bolling & Jim Grant Bolling
- Bolling, Richard Walker, 1916-1991
- Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- to Richard Nixon. Df·i: That is true. F: When did you first get to know Johnson? OM: I actually met Mrs. Johnson a considerable time before I did the President. He were schoolmates at the University of Texas together and in the journalism school
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz
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- understood this was an independent commission that was bipartisan in nature. And that there were five commissioners, and that only three could be of one political party. It was something that Nixon has never understood, but Johnson did. He thought
- good writer. He was accused of being lazy. I think that started when he was [Richard] Nixon's vice-presidential choice, and apparently he didn't open as many supermarkets as they thought he ought to have. He might have been lazy in doing stupid things
- ; Jacobson's opinion of LBJ's visit to Vietnam in 1966; Jacobson's work with Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS); military organization in Vietnam; the Vietnam War during Richard Nixon's and Gerald Ford's administrations; evacuating
- 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
- 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
- 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, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- 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
- 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- I -- 12 meant I spent about eight weeks with Richard Nixon and about eight weeks with John Kennedy, and got to know both of them in a reporter/source
- Administration. M: He was the chief man then for the nation. s: That's right. He really had more to do with it than all the rest of them put together. \ [Richard] Maguire had helped some, and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
- 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 My first exposure to Richard Nixon was in connection with the Commission's reporting of cases where loyalty and security conditions had resulted
- Development to be on the staff of their research group, which was then headed by Herbert Stein, who is now a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Nixon Administration. M: I'm not too familiar with this Committee for Economic Development. What
- this. I said, "Well, I can be on your side but I don't think I want to work for you or anything." But then that summer, Senator Johnson asked me to come up and work in Senator [Richard] Russell's effort to get the Democratic nomination [for President
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , that was at the Speaker ' s personal request. Pnd then the President had respect for Lyndon ' s judgment, and he knew some people the President didn ' t knm·1. Staffing an administration, as Mr. Nixon has found, is very difficult. They talked al most every day
- to fill only about 200 of those 1,000 vacancies. And if they had been on the schedule we had planned, they would by this time have filled about 700 of the vacancies. B: Then Mr. Nixon's recent request for an increase was an additional thousand men over
- Johnson's effectiveness as Vice President 15,16 Days immediately following Kennedy assassination 17,19,20,21,22 Sec . Willard Wirtz 18,19 Mr . Meany 22 OEO 23,24 Everett Dirksen 25,26 President Johnson's major accomplishments 27 Nixon
- as Vice President; JFK assassination; Secretary Willard Wirtz; George Meany; OEO; Everett Dirksen; LBJ's major accomplishments; Nixon; Humphrey; George Wallace
- was covering Congress. As it turned out, the Congress came back, you remember, in 1960, for the "Rump Session," so-called. As the rookie in the office, I was the only one around and I that entire cov~r~d session, Kennedy and Nixon and Johnson
- ://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 Curry--I--5 here after Nixon had had one. One of the reasons I remember
- , anyhowo I'm sure the Johnson people feel a certain antipathy toward the Nixon people as usurpers, even though they knew for months it was going to happen. R: Yes. Well, when it comes that suddenly-- F: It's just a surrender. R: You are i.n physical
- 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
- ; Nixon/Braniff situation; what it was like to work for LBJ.
- forth. And the result is that a White House staff--at least the Kennedy staff, and I would generalize more broadly; not the Eisenhower staff, but the Johnson staff and I gather the Nixon staff--relates so much to the man who is President that the rest
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz
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- . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
- was that over the period of his presidency he called personally to complain about something or to directly compliment you about something on the order of maybe twelve or fifteen times. you can say that's a lot. And again, contrasted to the Nixon but that's
- of the provisions that we were much opposed to. Vice President Nixon at that time cast the deciding vote, and he cast it against us. But Johnson, who was Majority Leader at the time, was very much with us on that particular episode. MU: He was voting your way
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz
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- in some detail then. It was not an idea that sprang full-blown after M o y n i h a n joined Nixon in 1969. It was, again, a focusing--the positive aspect of it, of the country and the medi a, whether one 1 i ked the ki nd of focus-- on mj nori ty
- really pertinent here, but I'm curious about : you were in Caracas after the famous spitting incident on Senator Nixon or Vice President Nixon? B: I accompanied him . F: Oh, you were along . B: Dick Rubottom, a Texan, and I accompanied him
- was quite different from theirs, so I never had any hesitations about staying on. professional. I've always regarded myself as a I would have stayed on for the Nixon Administration if they had chosen to regard me as a professional instead of a Johnson
- ; problems regarding Komer’s ambassadorship; losing his job when Nixon became President; LBJ’s visit with Indira Ghandi; how Komer met LBJ and discussed the Pakistan-India issue; White House visits from foreign dignitaries; sending wheat to India; comparing
- an assumption, not that it functioned under, but that this program--it really started with Mr. Nixon as Vice President, when the Equal Employment-B: Your immediate ancestor was the President's committee which was headed by the Vice President-- LBJ
- the country as a scapegoat or something like that, of course. But I think by and large the demonstrations have not been of a nature that would alarm anybody. M: There 2ave been incidences, several of Nixon's-- R: Well, Caracas yes. M: Eisenhower
- evidence that Johnson did in fact sit on his hands or even encourage the Nixon candidacy over the Humphrey candidacy? H: I have no evidence of that at all. F: In general, you've got a long distinguished career as a newsman, how would you, try to project