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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • within the Wh i t e House, and I think it deprived the public of a really full understanding of the problems that the Eisenhower Administration were up against. My view of it is that the open approach, as the Nixon people call it, is really a pretty good
  • 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
  • a possible opponent ',-Jere W-l() you counting on? a lot of t::d.k early as to--I remember asking Scammon, "Oughtn't the President to decide at least in his own mind whether he ,-?ants to run against l',(,::m.ey or Nixon; and having decided that, 'veIl
  • of on a circuit with the party after the appearance with Humphrey, or how did this general campaign develop? A: I don't really know. F: You mean, Pat Brown? A: Yes. I did get involved with the governorship [race]. [It was] President Nixon's worst defeat
  • in their overalls, and local people. He just worked himself up into the greatest speech you can imagine, but he made the mistake of saying, "I ask you what Dick Nixon ever did for Culpeper?'! And the crowd applauded. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • who was in charge of the arrangements there that I could look to. One of the things that we learned and we should have learned it earlier, because it happened when Nixon was Vice President and visited Africa, was that most of the embassies are just