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Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • millions of Republicans that don't want to vote for Richard Nixon, but they're not going to vote for Jack Kennedy; they're not going to vote for Hubert Humphrey; they're not going to vote for Adlai Stevenson. They're going to vote for Nixon in preference
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Senate. G: What about Richard Russell? Did you ever hear LBJ talk about him? H: No, I never did hear him talk about Richard Russell. I was in the room out at Phoenix; I was the advance man on the Phoenix meeting for LBJ. I was in his room. He got
Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 In the finals, Richard Nixon and I contested one another. the election and went on the Senate. He won In the finals, the Tideland Vote was again a major factor, although
  • Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • -- 22 for rescuing me from this predicament, but more to the British dietician. F: Did he consult with you prior to his taking the Senate minority post? P: No. F: Neither he nor Richard Russell? P. No, I never- F: Did he talk to you at all
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a candidate from the West as a vice president . I think Mr . Johnson was right . I honestly believe, and the facts haven't shown otherwise, that John went back to the Nixon group to become vice president, and then Agnew's financial immorality blew up
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : 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
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . (Note: Allen came in under Nixon and was fired by Nixon.) M: Well, now, what's your relationship with the Justice Department? T: My office does not have any relationship. The legal problems are basically handled by a group of lawyers working under
Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
  • Richard Bolling
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt --9 vice-presidency and said he did it because he didn't like what Nixon did to Helen, he said, "Now Helen was an emotional girl, and she often said and did things that I didn't approve
  • and generosity; Jesse Kellam; social security disability insurance; AMA; Senator Kerr; LBJ relationship with Senator Richard Russell; LBJ as a liberal; LBJ and the Presidency; mobilization for youth; Community Action Program; legal services program; Head Start
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • left Congressman [Richard] Kleberg's office. G: That was in 1935 was the year that he left. L: Yes. As I recall, he was still working with Kleberg when I first met him, but he subsequently left. G: Do you recall the substance of your first
Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : At any rate, in the letter you sent to Dr. Frantz, you pointed out that you were on a committee with Richard Kleberg. You were the chairman .... R: Yes. M· In such a capacity you must have run into his young as sistant, Lyndon Baines Johnson. R: Oh
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , first, secretary of Congressman [Richard] Kleberg and then elected a member of the House. M: I did not know him when he was secretary for Congressman Kleberg. I did not know him personally until after he was elected to the Senate. Beyond perhaps
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • with good grace just as Richard Nixon did in 1960 when he probably had some grounds to make a loud cry--I suspect that Nixon wouldn't be president today if he had made a fuss about the Kennedy election in 1960. Politically, you've got to learn to be a good
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • upset. The people who make a big play out of this have been Republicans in the Congress. I don't know if President Nixon will have this much trouble or not, but my goodness, we certainly had-F: To a certain extent is this Congressional reluctance
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • should participate in the Humphrey campaign. Did you get involved in this one? M: I don't remember that I did. it for a while. B: I hate to say no without thinking about I don't remember that I did. Then after the election of now-President Nixon
Oral history transcript, Nelson Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • reflected afternoon. moon. his thinking than the man in the He was given a speech which he had to give because it was the Administration position. See, I had told President Nixon in 1960, when he was very generously asking me to go on with him as vice
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 In fact they might be as interesting as were the Nixon-Kennedy debates during that campaign because they were really going from meeting to meeting, getting few hours of sleep, debating under pressure, and they went all out
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it. I had a feeling that President Kennedy was convinced that he had this vote, that he was going to get it, that there was no way that Nixon could take it away from him. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Nixon's taking the publicity advantage of the thing, doing the talking to the moon, in terms of the old fable in Aesop about the wren jumping off the back of the eagle. I remember two or three things about the Sputnik episode that have always stuck in my
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to have a piece by Billy Graham in Life during the campaign, which literally said, "Nixon ' s the man," you know. They called Kennedy forty-eight hours before this piece was to appear--they were stricken by their conscience up there--and said, "Well
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, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • passed his Jury Trial Amendment. I remember the You see, what Johnson was doing was passing both amendments; then he had to deal with Russell and avoid a filibuster. I saw then Vice President Nixon and then Attorney General Bill
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "Yes, sir, but I've been about my Vice President's business," and he grinned and didn't say a word ! So we went on out to dinner and oddly enough Nixon was in Chasen's! So he was just about getting ready to leave, so we circled the block--the Vice
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they needed their own bank, so I helped write and defend that legislation. F: Do you think this need for a bank for Latin America came out of sort of a nationalistic pride, or do you think--? B: Yes. If you'll remember, Mr. Nixon had certain problems
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson often do this kind of thing himself on the phone--get on the phone and call members? M: Yes. More so than President Kennedy. B: Have you had enough of the Nixon Administration to be able to see any kind of pattern in it? M: No, because
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Kennedy, Mr . Nixon, and Mr . Albert all in one little huddle . They were the only � � � � 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, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Nancy Dickerson, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • na~. Incidentally he, as well as President Nixon, both call me Miss Hanschman in news conferences from time to they can both spell it, I don't mind. time~ but since It dates us both. But I followed him for that entire period of the civil rights
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • at this. Not successful, but interesting. I worked in the Labor Department, really on problems to do with Aid for Dependent Children. I go that far back. It seems to be the new change--Mr. Nixon is changing the welfare program. where it began. Well, that's
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the position of the persons in charge of the Texas Democratic party was that therefore Eisenhower and Nixon ought to go on the ballot as the Democratic nominees in Texas because our Democratic state convention went on record as favorable toward them
Oral history transcript, Buford Ellington, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember, in 1968 President Nixon spoke on the Governor's Mansion grounds in Jackson, when he was a candidate. Missis~ippi And has--well, they voted for Goldwater in 1964, but I believe that's the only time they've ever supported the Republican ticket