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Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
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, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of increasing delicacv oi the relationship between Senator Richard Russell and the President? r. Yes. Jo vou want to expatiate a little? :JrobaolY cion't know as r.:iucn a.bouc jCartea as a udQesnip. : :.s "omeone '2lse f'Hi:ht. s1i~hc jit or ~lack over
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 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, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a Senate document on guided missiles in foreign countries. This was published by Senator [Richard] Russell, who was the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. When the Sputnik went up, it was so startling and dramatic and almost everything
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
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, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • if that is II So the next day I went to the State Department and met a great, great friend. of mine, a great man, really I admire him, the then-Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, Mr. Richard Rubottom. And I said, IIWell, Mr. Rubottom, I'm here
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , the [Johnson] Administration will be forever associated with the credibility gap, the phrase "credibility gap," owing to its public handling of daily news concerning the war. And I think that the Nixon Administration, with all of its flaws and faults
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And yet all the fear and worry and this concern was shared--people have a very erroneous impression, I know Richard Nixon did, that people in the federal bureaucracy are liberal. Many of the people I run into in the federal bureaucracy are quite
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , if you want to put it that way. It won't stand a hitch. Did you have the feeling in 1968 that you could pull it off? W: Yes. In my humble opinion, the President would have carried California in 1968, particularly against Richard Nixon, because, back
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • will be forever associated with the credibility gap, the phrase "credibility gap," owing to its public handling of daily news concerning the war. And I think that the Nixon Administration, with all of its flaws and faults, indecencies, Nixon's known attitude
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Lyndon Johnson and Horace Richards, Vernon Whiteside, Wilton Woods, Bill Deason, Albert Harzke, Walter Grady, and Archie Wiles LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • you remember the hotel that you lived at? J: I think it was called the Nixon. It was the old Driscoll Hotel, it seems to me, that we stayed in when we made our brief trip down there to meet his boss. But I believe we lived in--frankly, I don't know
  • ; the Johnsons' first apartment; LBJ being chosen to head the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Richard Kleberg; early married life; snow in Washington, D.C.; Maury and Terrell Maverick; Bill White; Welly Hopkins
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ever remember the name of Lyndon Johnson, when he was still working for I guess it was [Richard] Kleberg in the House. G: Do you recall the first time that you met him? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -17- Not a bit in the world and I would say that there were over 150,000 people on the streets welcoming them as they came through. It was a much larger turnout for Kennedy and Johnson than Nixon got
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been there since Truman's adminis- He had come there as a navy chief; worked under Truman, Eisen- hower, Kennedy and Johnson, and continued to work under Nixon up until, I think, just after Ford took over or just before Ford took over. Jack
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . Nixon has improved his performance has without doubt helped him. FDR, by popular lore or nythology, was a gifted radio performer. But I don't think many pros in the business would put it that simply. He happened to have a good voice. But much.more
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • it proved the difference in 1968 in Ohio for Nixon. He had that campaign train through there, and I don't believe Humphrey did. It brings back a bit of nostalgia of the old days. At the same time you can cover a lot of ground and there's a lot of color
  • Richard Daley; LBJ meeting with Eisenhower; Hubert Humphrey’s campaign; LBJ, Wilbur Mills and a surtax; Poor People's Campaign and consumer measures LBJ supported.
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of the procedural technical problems of the presidency when they moved into the White House. I suspect Richard Nixon right now is going through the same kind of cram course despite his lengthy experience. And Johnson I don't think learned a great deal as Vice
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • north, the intellectual guys. There was plenty in Lyndon to appeal to an easterner. Christ, he was doing what the Kennedys hadn't done. Christ, he was doing what these guys wanted done. But in the same way, you know, he took on this guy [Richard] Goodwin
Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Terry -- I -- 17 Humphrey Democrat. And now the country was in the hands of Richard Nixon. All I could think about was getting a book together about the black soldier and then getting back overseas, out of the United States
Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Richard Nixon was in Congress and one Richard Nixon was about to suddenly steal this away 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, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Strom Thurmond and others wanted to hold this vacancy for the new president, hopefully Richard Nixon, and it's nothing more than that. They'll never convince me that anything more was behind the effort. Later, of course, as it developed
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in trouble. And he--I was sitting next to [Sargent] Shriver and Moyers and [Richard] Goodwin and [Willard] Wirtz. I forget who else was there. And he began giving anecdotes from India--[Laughter]--and he came to this one! And I had already told Bill about
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • And tried to keep my contact at absolutely a ground Didn't talk to leaders. There was one difficulty: whether we should tell [r",layor Richard] Daley I was in there, because politically.. We finally decided, Watson and I -- he may consulted
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of say, "Well, we expect you to say that," you know. But you know--while the "New Left" calls the New York Times and the Post the Establishment press, Spiro T. Agnew doesn't. Nor does Richard Nixon. Maybe we've come a long ways when the supporters
  • First meeting with LBJ in March, 1946; Ganson Purcell; James Rowe; Sam Rayburn; W. Averell Harriman; Truman’s anti-inflation program; General Counsel for AEC; Herbert Marks; Kenneth D. McKellar; Dr. Edward U. Condon; General McArthur; Richard
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by Nixon, who discussed this with me as a result of a detailed conversation with the President-Elect. The Nixon Administration ran with it. I was asked by the President to co-chair a citizens' committee to carry on this advocacy. I considered it totally non
  • continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • say that he was less an initiator of legislation than he had been prior to that time. G: I guess one could explain his ability in the House of Representatives as a result of having worked for Richard Kleberg and being an assistant, but how did he
Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the press. You must remember a little piece of political background. There was a senator in Georgia at that time named Richard Russell. Richard Russell had been the foremost opponent of Jack Kennedy in the Senate, and in the lame duck period between being
  • ; affirmative action; Jerry Holleman; John Hope Franklin; Gwendolyn Tice; Percy Williams; Jerry Bruno; staffing and funding the commission; Bobby Troutman and the conflict between LBJ and RFK; Richard Russell; the Lockheed plant in Marietta, Georgia; Plan
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Virginia primary and what JFK learned from it; the JFK/Nixon debates; JFK's handling of the Bay of Pigs incident; O'Brien meeting with each cabinet member to review roles in the Kennedy Administration; JFK's and O'Brien's time spent learning their roles
Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , you will remember, Vietnam was coining into the fore and President Johnson was not getting too good a receptivity in the United States. Neither is President [Richard] Nixon at this moment--a very similar situation at this very moment. The feeling
Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , changes in the way they ran their institutions, could look to something steady and say "Here's what we have to live by." Well it grieves me to say so, but when President Nixon came in, he shattered that--that growing coherence of doctrine--and we began
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • tendency in a campaign. Your own people are apt to react strongly to hard-hitting spots. We had that with [Spiro] Agnew and then Nixon at a later date, by the same Tony Schwartz. G: Oh, really? O: Yes. G: Which spots in particular? O: We had one
  • organizations found in Philadelphia under the leadership of Bill Green, Chicago under the leadership of Richard J. Daley, Minnesota under the leadership of the Democratic-Farm-Labor group, and in Albany, New York; O'Brien's concern about the two-party system
Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)