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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1969-02-26 (remove)

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  • 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
  • . Then at seven o'clock, Herbert Hoover, Jr., who was then Under Secretary of State, would come down, and I would have thrown away most of it, and then we'd go through it together. At 7:30 the Vice-President, Mr. Nixon-- the then-Vice President--Mr. Nixon would
  • Biographical information; assessment of LBJ in House and Senate; Geneva Summit Conference; Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Nixon; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s heart attack; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower’s policies; nomination of Lewis Strauss and Abe Fortas
  • . President Kennedy was good, but the makeup man and a few other things--for Nixon was the deciding factor. I can take a little pride in that because Governor Stevenson was the one who first suggested to me that we should have legislation permitting
  • that Community Action was a controversial program, and that it might-L: You mean during the '68 campaign? G: Yes. I was wondering--do the mayors still support Community Action? If the Nixon Administration were to eliminate Community Action, what would