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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • covered East Texas with Wright. They went to Paris and the Lone Star Steel Plant and Hughes Springs, Linden, Atlanta, Texarkana, Jefferson. Meanwhile, Lyndon talked on the phone with [Richard] Russell trying his best to get Russell to come out
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • obviously did. Nixon was always interested in it. Kennedy did. I mean, here was Kennedy making extremely well-thought-out and passionatelydelivered speeches on Algeria in the late fifties. [That was] inconceivable for Johnson. And it had a curious effect
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXII -- 22 funding to get planning grants. We were really at the planning grant stage when [Richard] Nixon was elected
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
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  • 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, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . At that time I had known there was a young man on the Hill named Lyndon Johnson, who was the secretary for a congressman named [Richard] Kleberg and who had been head of the administrative assistants association in the House. I had known through other
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 20 (XX), 9/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • awfully fast, much too fast I thought, but he could make it. And very blunt-speaking, I think that's what attracted Johnson. But it also attracted Nixon, and as I said, the Pakistanis specialized in this. One of my memories is on the around-the-world trip
Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • miles that I could get into . I guess in three months, every union meeting I just worked because I disliked Richard Nixon and I still do, if anything more so . the time about that fellow . He's only proven what I knew all I think he is a terrible
Oral history transcript, Allen J. Ellender, interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of Congress. And I can well remember that among the first he tackled for assistance was Richard Russell from Georgia, who was very prominent at the time. And then, of course, other prominent Senators, such as Senator McClellan and many others, and he had
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy for censoring military speeches to make sure they complied with the State Department policy. Against all of that and coming out of the [Joseph] McCarthy era, which the President was very conscious of, and [Richard] Nixon who was still playing very
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , except in terms of Vietnam. It wasn't a surprise to me that Humphrey's people were able to move effectively in the delegate hunt and avoid the primary side. It was the right strategy and it was working. G: You did have Richard Hughes in New Jersey? O
  • at the convention; the role of LBJ and the DNC the convention; efforts to establish dialogue between the Humphrey campaign and young people; violence caused by the youth movement and Chicago police; altercations at the convention between Abe Ribicoff and Richard
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon-- all want to try to change, and they can't get it done. F: Thank you. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org \ ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch for December 15, 1966, has an article on page 28A by Richard Dudman, which throws some
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Any insights? V: I don't know—I just know what I've read about what happened in Illinois. I don't know—I just have no way of knowing what did happen there. Possible. I think Richard Nixon thinks so. But then after the convention was over, I think
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this in private or whether he told us this in that room; I think it might have been a private conversation--he said that he had a session with Ron Ziegler, who was the incoming press secretary to Richard Nixon. And Ziegler asked him if he had any advice, in being
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • would be running against Richard Nixon had some influence with Rayburn as well? B: Oh, no question about that. Mr. Rayburn was very bitter on Richard Nixon, and as subsequent events proved, he had a right to be. G: But did Rayburn say, for example
Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Carter, now Reagan. Since 1968 when Nixon came in and he wanted to do away with the Great Society, he wanted to close the Job Corps centers and finally relented. This year, 1981, there is a greater number of slots
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because he was representing the United States. It was because somebody hated Lyndon Johnson. He was always citing what happened to [Richard] Nixon down in Caracas, you know, when the eggs were thrown and all that kind of thing. Of course, Nixon wasn't
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • be an advantage no matter how long it lasted. Well, the initial arrangement was that I would be here for six months. And then that was extended for two years see, I'm still here. And as you can The transition people for Mr. Nixon called me up the other day
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • haven't got time to worry about that. Let's keep going. Let's get this plane on the road and let's roll!" F: Did your dad have a feeling that Johnson was in control of the Chicago convention, or that [Mayor Richard J.] Daley was, or that he was? 23
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • until 1969 that our paths really crossed again, when George came in to be secretary of labor under Richard Nixon. F: Did the employees in the building just sort of spill out in the halls, head for the nearest TV set? Could you sense the grief
Oral history transcript, J. Russell Wiggins, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • purchased the nomination and we'll wind up with Nixon as president of the United States. Whether you want to or not, you're going to run for that nomination. If you have any sense of indebtedness to the party, you have got to do it." So with that ringing
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the questions of conflict of interest. We already read in the paper yesterday that President Nixon, in the midst of a major antitrust case, picked up the telephone and called the Deputy Attorney General and told him not to file an appeal. Later that order
Oral history transcript, Burke Marshall, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • by contractors effective; that is, there was a follow-up, it was not just a reaction to individual complaints which was all that the similar Nixon committee had done. If you compare the rules and regulations and steps taken by the Nixon committee with those taken
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and carrying the big stick, but the words should not be bellicose. And if you recall, they had campaigned in part on that theory, that [John Foster] Dulles' words had been too bellicose and that we'd-- F: Nixon's kitchen confrontation-- LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the President." And so then they took me to my apartment over at Crystal City, and sure enough the next morning they showed up. I went over there, and I talked to Kissinger and Haig; met Nixon briefly, and then went back and talked to them again
Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Richard Nixon, and the candidates, the three that I recall, who were in contention early in the year were all senatorial candidates. One was John F. Kennedy, the other LBJ, and the third of course was Hubert Humphrey. Now later, as we all know
  • Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic Presidential
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, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • personal, highly devoted district that Mr. Sam had, found it more difficult, but wasn't about to give in on it. And one of the kind of shiny moments in the year, for me, was when Sir Lawrence Olivier was there putting on Richard III, and for some reason
Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • for Dick Kleberg for Congressman--I mean Richard Kleberg for Congress, which included Bexar County at that time. P: This is 1931? B: Yes. He was elected for Congress, and he made an appointment of a young man by the name of Lyndon Johnson to be his
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 7 whip. The most spectacular election, probably, was an ugly one, in which Richard Nixon defeated our old friend, Helen Gahagan Douglas. That was when
  • throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg
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, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • 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
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