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Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- III -- 15 Actually he had a very, very good relationship with the President. He had almost total access to everything, including the bedroom, that Nixon's photographer, Ollie Atkins, who died a few weeks ago, told me
  • Panmunjom; Dr. Richard Morstein’s plan to end the war in Vietnam; the large crowd that welcomed LBJ to Korea; Okamoto’s photography lab and pictures LBJ didn’t want publicized; firing/evaluating/hiring staff members.
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . C. in time for a vote; Bay of Pigs events and JFK accepting responsibility for failure there; JFK's trust in the CIA and military; education legislation; opposition from James Delaney to aid to education; Cardinal Richard Cushing's visit to the White
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the members, when you had people like Bob Kerr [D.-Okla.] and Richard Russell and Warren Magnuson [D.-Wash.] on the committee, while they were very close friends of Lyndon Johnson and his fellow whales in the Senate--part of the Establishment in the Senate
  • with Eisenhower Administration; self analysis; leader of an opposition on the staff; censure resolution; HHH; Richard Russell; HR 3; LBJ’s relationship with Kerr and JFK; contempt for some Senators and close friends in the Senate; LBJ singled out protégés; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • wonder how many now they're going to name Lyndon or--well, with Richard, you can't tell. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
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, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 7 You mentioned Richard Russell--Dick Russell was along. Sam never did play poker, but he liked to kibitz. Sam Rayburn, Homer [Thornberry] and Myron Blalock, Stu Symington, Lloyd Bentsen, and I've forgotten who else. But anyway we were playing
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • require the use of troops to enforce, and he didn't like that so much. Thereafter he held a conference with Senator [Richard] Russell, who had made the charge on the floor that they could enforce at the point of a bayonet. Well, it was from that point
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington with the initial term of Richard M. Kleberg, who had been elected to Congress from Corpus Christi . That had at one time been part of the same congressional district with San Antonio . They had split off this Nueces County with sev­ eral other
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, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I've always understood was the situation. G: There's some indication that both of them were persuaded by the argument that LBJ should run to keep Vice President Nixon from getting elected. H: Well, it's to win, yes. Because the answer
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the committee, but the new Nixon budget cut those in half and cut them back to what they had been. They didn't cut them below what they had been but just back to what they had been before. Now the funds don't amount to much because Mr. Rocke- feller puts
  • ; Laurance Rockefeller; Hubert Humphrey; consultant to American Conservation Association; Nixon administration proposed changes in the Council; Udall-LBJ relationship; transition; Hickel's influence with Laurance Rockefeller regarding Citizen
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was anticipating that Hubert Humphrey was going to foul up his Vietnam negotiations, and he said to me directly, "I do not want you to work in the Humphrey campaign." And I told him how wrong I felt that was, that any lack of helping Hubert meant helping Nixon
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but would never have allowed him in the mid- or the late sixties to make the leap that Javits and Kennedy wanted, and was made in the Nixon Administration when the Food Stamp Program became truly national with many billions of dollars, instead of one or two
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and we all know the history--Nixon decided for whatever arbitrary reasons he was not going to expend funds the Congress appropriated. And I was reflecting upon the fact that I can remember it was Senator Mondale, Senator Kennedy, Senator Javits and Pete
  • policies under President Nixon.
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sort of ambivalent about Humphrey both ways. G: Sure. What did you observe about the relationship between Johnson and Nixon that year that you were working [for him]? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Southern Manifesto; farm legislation; Francis Case; social security; LBJ and Paul Butler; LBJ and Nixon; 1956 Democratic National Convention
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • did indeed work with the Labor people and some staff budget people, and they indeed liked it and they started urging it on Wirtz. And Wirtz became very high on the plan. Now, Nixon--I can't remember whether we started to run into trouble before
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the experience that my wife and I had on the Sequoia. I can't pin the date down, although I would think it would be sometime after the Republican convention of 1968, and after President Johnson had had a meeting with President Nixon at the White House, generally
  • The Sequoia; LBJ's assessment of Nixon; LBJ's comments on Martin Luther King; working on a tax surcharge speech on the Sequoia; staff members wanting access to the Sequoia for personal use; Camp David; visiting the Ranch; LBJ's office at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • two man. F: Did you have any idea that he would accept the vice presidency? Or would be offered it? M: No, no. F: Is that the main reason that you supported Nixon in 1960? M: Yes, absolutely, absolutely. did Sam I was very disappointed when
  • Biographical information; envoy to Luxembourg; 1960 campaign; Eleanor Roosevelt; selling her house to LBJ when he was VP; Democratic Women for Nixon in 1960; Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy; Democratic factions
Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Apollo 8 launch. our final meeting on this was November 11. I believe that President-elect Nixon happened to be visiting President Johnson the day of our meeting in which we decided to send Apollo 8 around the moon. So by phoning that information over
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Mr. Krim, let's today discuss that period after the 1968 election but before the Nixon inauguration. K: All right
  • LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale
Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , that we were going to support them. And that's the position I took consistently, not only during President Johnson's term but President Nixon's also. G: When you spoke at West Point in 1970 you said that the South Vietnamese realized that they would
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Rowland Evans, and author of Lyndon B. Johnson, An Exercise in Power, as well as other books, including one now on the Nixons. To begin with, you were still a fairly junior congressional reporter at the time your book begins. How close on that level were
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • .) Mitchell was Secretary of Labor--he favored it, but evidently he was considered a liberal, and Eisenhower's attitude, and even Nixon in those days. We visited Nixon too. We didn't get any too warm a reception or too friendly a feeling or sympathy. From
Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • work. And yet it's eight days after the inauguration of President Nixon. L: Right. M: And yet you're still in office, you're still working as you did before. your position in all of this? Are you preparing to leave office? What's What have you
  • to Nixon Administration; changes in doctors’ attitudes towards working with government; Gardner’s leadership.
Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of the Nixon years. (Interruption) G: You said you were the student candidate for this position. Were you perceived by them as sort of an LBJ man, do you suppose? R: No, I don't think that had anything to do with it at all. I think I was seen as a moderate
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the telephone to hear Salpee [Sahagian]--who was Mansfield's administrative assistant--saying to him, "The President"--Nixon--"is sending a helicopter down to pick you up at some air base we have close by and bring you back to Washington immediately, because
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • become an extremely key factor. It is more so today. But what awakened us to the role of television, the impact of television, were the Kennedy-Nixon debates. The turn of events immediately following the first debate was enough to convince you that from