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Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • whether Up to this point Bill Wirtz on the record has always said that he didn't want Job Corps. This was the party line of course, and this would be what would be expected for him to say. And so at this point in time with Mr. Nixon's publicly stated
Oral history transcript, Oren Harris, interview 1 (I), 9/3/1973, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it. I had a feeling that President Kennedy was convinced that he had this vote, that he was going to get it, that there was no way that Nixon could take it away from him. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Owen Donley, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and then he became the director of the Nutrition Institute at Tufts and by this time the Agriculture Committee was rewarding him by furnishing most of the money for that venture. G: Was the Nixon Administration more receptive to expanding these programs
  • support for food programs during the Johnson and Nixon administrations; "Dietary Goals for the USA"; opposition to the federal food programs; the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs becoming a subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • anxious to do anything he wanted. Of course I've always felt that, and I think subsequent events again have proved right, the newspapers did this to him. You know, Nixon has been in now while we're talking nearly two months. According to the press he
Oral history transcript, Samuel Yorty, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said he hoped we'd understand his decision, yes. F: What did you do then during the campaign? Y: During the campaign I was for Nixon. Part of my reason was that I felt that the Democratic Party had turned down the more logical candidate; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Eugene R. Black, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 phrases of Nixon about it, you
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that President Nixon took on coming into office. Within the first month or so he announced that he wasn't going to engage in jaw-boning, which I think was--. First, policy-wise, I think it was tragic. Second, he deprecated and denigrated this very effective
Oral history transcript, Olga Bredt Gideon, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • ? G: Well, in my presence I'd say small talk though he did talk. Of course, Nixon was in office, and I do know that he had conversations with President Nixon from time to time. B: Did he ever talk about that, or--? G: I never heard him critical
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -­ 22 or December of 1969, for a month . G: Now, Nixon's Vietnamization was taking hold 0: That's right . And by now, of 1968 from Vietnam to in the fall by this time . of 1968--I came back in April the States, and I covered the political
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 1 (I), 4/2/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • a bi-partisan, non-political stamp on the findings of the commission. stepped out. This has held until a month ago when I The Nixon Administration wanted me out mainly for political reasons, to the best of my knowledge. Mc Well, did this non
  • ; 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, Andrew J. Goodpaster, interview 1 (I), 6/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 G: I knew of the arrangement: that President Eisenhower made with Mr. Nixon, which t might say I knew also had been thoroughly discussed with the Congressional leadership
  • Meeting with LBJ; General Parsons; Bryce Harlow; comparison of Presidents; Arthur Larson; Sputnik, briefing during Eisenhower's illness; U-2 and Geneva Summit; missile gap; Dulles; Nixon's TR to South America; LBJ's TR to Berlin Wall as VP; JFK
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 2 (II), 12/6/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • politically--and you know it was right in front of an election--it would have been a tie vote and Nixon would have untied the vote in opposition to the bill. I made several efforts to get somebody to change their vote. I made a very much stronger effort
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 7 (VII), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • discussed that also, and we discussed what the country was likely to have to face up to if Mr. Nixon was elected. I used that as another string in the bow in attempting to persuade him that the results of his resignation would be contrary to what he
Oral history transcript, James C. Gaither, interview 3 (III), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to have to be tried. The Nixon idea of an urban council is not unlike what Joe Califano has been doing for the last few years, basically pulling together all of the interest of cabinet officers on the domestic side to formulate an approach to urban
  • History of task forces; Commissioners Howe and Keppel; Califano's role; Nixon idea of an urban council; experiences working with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- III -- 8 leaders mended their ways. Unfortunately, we didn't do it in that way. at least not until the Nixon Administration. G: What about the argument that we hear from some high
Oral history transcript, Jose Joaquin Trejos, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • noted. Maybe because of that is why Latin America willingly accepted President Nixon's idea of emphasizing commerce more and of paying better prices for Latin American products. great enthusiasm. She has accepted that idea with But nevertheless, when
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, E. Ernest Goldstein, interview 5 (V), 5/3/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • together in the White House--the night before the inauguration of Nixon--we had a party. He said that he didn't want to hear any of us being quoted in the press as bad-mouthing Nixon, for the simple reason--he gave the analogy of the airplane
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • activities in the activities in the transition process? P: I had contacts with a number of the Nixon aides on sort of a friendly basis. I knew Bryce Harlow very well. We were both Oklahomans, and Bryce had been helpful during our Administration
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was covering Congress. As it turned out, the Congress came back, you remember, in 1960, for the "Rump Session," so-called. As the rookie in the office, I was the only one around and I that entire cov~r~d session, Kennedy and Nixon and Johnson
Oral history transcript, Adrian A. Spears, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • out to old Nixon and thought Nixon was going to make him vice president. I won't get on Connally, I'll tell you. I would, but I don't think I want to do it publicly. G: Was there a legal problem with replacing the state executive committee
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Curry--I--5 here after Nixon had had one. One of the reasons I remember
Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as commander-in-c·hief on the information he had, and I support President Nixon as far as what he's trying to do. I really doubt the wisdom of the day when we cripple the powers of the president to be commander-in-chief of this country. There's something
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not, if I recall correctly, morning meetings such as I read in the paper that the Nixon ..l.drninistration White House has. F: There was nothing routine about these--every Tuesday or every second Tuesday or something like that? W: I think every once
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , anyhowo I'm sure the Johnson people feel a certain antipathy toward the Nixon people as usurpers, even though they knew for months it was going to happen. R: Yes. Well, when it comes that suddenly-- F: It's just a surrender. R: You are i.n physical
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is not meant to be critical. F: True. A senator who is a defeated is no senator at all then. E: Certainly. F: Getting to be Vice President freed Mr. Johnson from Texas. You went in '59 with Vice President Nixon to USSR and to Poland. So far as you know
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
  • ; Nixon/Braniff situation; what it was like to work for LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • an oceanographic building over here on Key Biscayne--which, by the way, President Nixon's put back in the budget, and I knew he would, having been located at Key Biscayne--and dredging of this harbor and so forth. There was always a continuous dialogue between
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Nixon's taking the publicity advantage of the thing, doing the talking to the moon, in terms of the old fable in Aesop about the wren jumping off the back of the eagle. I remember two or three things about the Sputnik episode that have always stuck in my
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • is that probably the election would not have been won if Johnson hadn't gone on the ticket. As you look back on it and realize how strongly Nixon did carry the Midwest and how strongly he did outside of Minnesota in this last election, why you can only conclude
  • members’ involvement in the 1968 campaign; Walker Report and the 1968 convention; Humphrey-Muskie campaign; DNC; HHH-LBJ relationship during the campaign; Vietnam; Wallace supporters; Nixon campaign; developing an agricultural policy; discussions with JFK
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But I think momentum takes you, and I think it is the kind of an operation that men really can't handle too well. ran a good campaign this last time. I watched that. Nixon It was very well run, mechanically and strategically. F: R: Yes, I thought
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Nixon--who was Nixon's running mate? G: Lodge. S: Lodge, [Henry] Cabot Lodge. It was a very close race. Sometime in October Mr. Johnson called me and said that--if you will recall he was running both, he got the legislature to pass a law where he
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • e p o l i t i c a l r e a s o n s for you to go into certain places. If our polls s h o w e d t h a t the Nixon-Lodge ticket was strong in a c e r t a i n area, we needed h e l p there, we'd either get one o f the candidates in t h e r e or get
  • Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I think, and his wife were there. And we were talking about one thing and another, just socializing, you know, and the subject came up about Nixon, who at that time had just unleashed the B-52 bombers against the North Vietnamese, I mean, really