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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things Teddy said about anybody are you and Nixon. would see him. You two never Now Nixon sees him, and he thinks he's a great hero. You can take Teddy into camp in fifteen minutes." Johnson said, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • ; 1968 convention; Anna Chennault and Nixon; LBJ and the Kennedy people
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Governor, the big interest of course in '62 was your campaign against Richard Nixon, and the feeling that Richard Nixon was using California as a testing ground for a comeback for the Presidency . I wondered if you would talk a little bit about the issue
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • the ca mpaign. G: Like Nixon's -- A: Well yes, it was a set harangue. tariff. In those days there was much talk about The audience usually got bored and some would leave. effort to hold the crowd would yell "And what about eggs!" Curtis
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, 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, 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, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • INTERVIHJEES: GOVERNOR AND NRS. RICHARD HUGHES (Betty Hughes) INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: The Hughes' home in Princeton, New Jersey Tape 1 of 2 F: First of all, Governor Hughes, tell us briefly where you came from, how you gradually moved up
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  • Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Richard J. Hughes
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • within the Wh i t e House, and I think it deprived the public of a really full understanding of the problems that the Eisenhower Administration were up against. My view of it is that the open approach, as the Nixon people call it, is really a pretty good
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • would have gone down as one of our great Presidents. But he had that Vietnam thing on him. And if Nixon isn't careful, Vietnam will get him too. I also think he will be a bigger President because he didn't run. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • will end up dominating Nixon, and the country will be in economic difficulties all over again. F: How did you learn you were coming to Washington? W: In preparedness? F: Yes. W: I forget that exact medium. F: What I'm trying to establish
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • anxious to do anything he wanted. Of course I've always felt that, and I think subsequent events again have proved right, the newspapers did this to him. You know, Nixon has been in now while we're talking nearly two months. According to the press he
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Nixon--who was Nixon's running mate? G: Lodge. S: Lodge, [Henry] Cabot Lodge. It was a very close race. Sometime in October Mr. Johnson called me and said that--if you will recall he was running both, he got the legislature to pass a law where he
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , Precincts in Summit County--that's the county in which 1L1
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out a job. II Up until then the only vice president we'd known, really, was [Alben] Barkley, who made fun of the job a lot, and Nixon, who we didn't really know much about. So, we didn't think of Dad as standing around in black tie at ceremonial
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • their language, but they had much to The way to do it is to come to that office with a broad acquaintanceship in the first instance. If you don't have it, the more I think about it, then you shouldn't be President. I don't think Nixon has got a sufficiently
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • right now incidentially, there's a big dog fight on for who gets the trade stick in the Nixon Administration. But Ambassador Roth and the State Depart- ment and the Commerce Department, Labor, Treasury would all have views on a trade issue
Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • from President Nixon, to complete its task no later than December 6th or 10th or something of the sort. I think it's necessary because the scope of the commission's work exceeds anything, I think, that even President Johnson had in mind at the time he
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • think that Mr. Nixon learned how to do this, but while between government jobs. He had a long way to go, but he had nothing but time and money, so he used both and was better trained when he LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • . President Kennedy said, '~ou've got to do it because Nixon had it before, even though he didn't do anything; you're from the South, and if you don't take it, you'll be deemed to have evaded your responsibility. And so you've got to do it." So he [Vice
  • ; LBJ as President; Vietnam War; LBJ and credibility; Nixon Administration; civil rights leaders and the Vietnam War; LBJ and education; various Presidents’ support of civil rights; LBJ’s early position on civil rights; LBJ’s 1965 State of the Union
Oral history transcript, Herbert J. Kramer, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • on the news ticker. I think Mr. Nixon has done a very wise thing in getting the ticker out of his office. The President would watch this thing like a hawk and if something came over the ticker that he didn't like, bang! He'd be on the telephone to Shriver
Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • led the group to open the only Humphrey headquarters in Longview during the 1968 campaign because the sentiment, as I gathered in the area, was for either Governor Wallace or Mr. Nixon. M: That vmuld be that part of Texas where that would be true