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Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hobby -- I -- 3 President Kennedy. The Post did not support the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, but supported Mr. Nixon in that year. And in 1964 we supported Mr. Johnson. M: So

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of my presence. He sort of said, "fine, that sounds good," or something. I don't remember really what he said. I do know what he felt. He felt a very, very firm conviction that Johnson was the man to beat Nixon, and he wanted very much for Johnson to get

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Bradley Peterson came from or anything else. I got along with him fine and still do. I found out some--I think he went to the Nixon White House so I said, oh, that's what the problem was; he was a Republican. But then I went to speak in 1981 to the local

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

forth. And the result is that a White House staff--at least the Kennedy staff, and I would generalize more broadly; not the Eisenhower staff, but the Johnson staff and I gather the Nixon staff--relates so much to the man who is President that the rest

Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

group, and this had not been terribly successful. So we felt a good deal of compulsion to redeem the President's pledge, to get this thing finished. F: Or get it done by the Nixon Administration. H: So we commenced work in February. F: Did you

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Schlesinger had to write a book Is There A Difference, or something like that, in order to highlight the difference between Kennedy and Nixon. evident there. movement. Kennedy's weakness among liberals was really But there was tremendous support

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had a better option, in a sense, than Nixon has today. In a way, and Nixon is going to take the option of withdrawal, obviously. I don't think he'll get out on an easy negotiation. Let's hope he does, but I think he will just have to opt

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to do this and said that he, understood the President's reluctance to have his administration involved in this campaigh and that he'was prepared to submit his resignation, but "e 'felt deeply that the field should not be left to Nixon. He felt

Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Nixon naming me to these councils~-signed by President Johnson. F: Did you see President Johnson at all in these first two appointments? Did he come around? M: Oh, yes. He didn't come around to we went around to him, but US; we certainlyg'ot
; Wilbur Cohen and Elliot Richardson as managers of HEW; proliferation of educational legislation and funding under LBJ and consolidation of same under Nixon.

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

into industry for a couple of years . M: Did that work? B: I don't know . December . It was set up in October, and we submitted a report in It was left for President Nixon . There was no way to put it into effect . M: Just a shot in the dark . Air Show

Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that took that attitude I felt Senator Byrd was not going to go along with that ticket, even though with Lyndon Johnson on it. And, as you know, he didn't. B: Do you figure, incidentally, that made the difference in Virginia? recall, Nixon carried

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the Nixon-Lodge ticket? T: Well, the way we did it was I always in making my speeches advocated Nixon-Lodge, as well as my own candidacy. Then I traveled with the candidates when they were in the state. They both embraced me, for whatever political

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

at this physical fitness ' awards program, we had about ninety-five hundred winners throughout the country in the schools. A continuation of this program of course went on through President Nixon's Administration last year, which I'd say in 1970, [and] we had

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

Patrick] Moynihan was on the President's staff and he came over to meet with the AAU. We met in Washington, and we told him the research programs of universities were getting in bad shape and Mr. Nixon had to do something. He went back and told

Oral history transcript, Dwight A. Ink, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

; differences working with Weaver; HUD Building acquisition; White House support; Model Cities Program; local public authorities; revamping of the audit program; Joint Administrative Task Force; rent supplement; transition to Nixon.

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, Notre Dame, Indiana, and I assume for purposes of this particular memoir I've been a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights since its inception in 1957. I've been chairman for the last year and a half, but that was a President Nixon appointment

Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

else there, only these people. these people newspapers could be influenced. He felt that if he knew He didn't think as President Nixon who went after people through their income tax. Lyndon felt that LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Allan Shivers, interview 1 (I), 5/29/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Kennedy's race. It occurred in Humphrey's race in '68 here; Nixon carried the county by 2000 votes, and the state went for Humphrey. And He lost the county in '60 by 7500 and the state went for Kennedy. So it's gone pretty steadily

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 2 (II), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the President has acted on them, so no one was certain what was in the case, although of course the rumor mill ground out bits and pieces on it. He had the choice then of either deferring the case to the next Administration, to the Nixon Administration

Oral history transcript, Paul Henry Nitze, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

not clear whether we should continue with Skybolt, with Dynosoar, with the B-70. As it turned out, all those--all three of them which appeared dubious in 1960, we finally had to cancel. I'm sure today the Nixon Administration, looking at their issues

Oral history transcript, Frank W. Lehan, interview 2 (II), 1/31/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

: Yes. M: And, of course, Nixon's a Republican, but you're still in office. Does this mean that the Nixon people are moving slowly in the transition? Or have they reached your area yet? Have you had contact with them? L: Okay. Oh, yes. Okay, let me

Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to the other candidates on the record with regard to civil rights and everything else. And although Johnson had some vague civil rights positions, Kennedy also had vague civil rights positions. And I don't have to talk about Nixon and Lodge. My argument has

Oral history transcript, Thomas D. (Tom) Mills, interview 1 (I), 8/24/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 10 (X), 6/25/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or politics generally. In foreign policy you have the adviser and his staff right in your building.The secretary of state is in Foggy Bottom. Personalities have a lot to do with it. There's no question, for example, in the Nixon Administration that Henry

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 19 (XIX), 6/13/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 2 (II), 1/9/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

speech in the U.N. which I had a central hand in drafting, but he came out with a big development program there which the Middle East governments didn't pick up. But in 1958 Vice President Nixon had a miserable time on a trip to Latin America. In Caracas

Oral history transcript, Frank M. Wozencraft, interview 4 (IV), 1/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

counter-commission led by General Mark Clark; bickering among Selective Service Commission members and lack of direction in the commission; the president's emergency fund; the increase in number of commissions leading up to LBJ and Nixon; the role

Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

agencies of government? The Nixon people made a big thing of this news coordination. Did the Johnson Administration handle that with a particular lack of success? A: I can't really speak with much expertise on that, because that's not my end

Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look

Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look

Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh We had agreed that when President Johnson left office, that this was going to be the end of it. So Father Hesburgh and I both resigned as soon as Mr. Nixon was elected, to make sure there wouldn't be any question about

Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

did not. feelings. I did not campaign for any candidate. I did voice my And in that particular race, I supported the Republican candidate when I voted. I did not do any campaigning, but I did vote for candidate Nixon at that time. B: Then, sir
Support of Nixon and Goldwater; contact with LBJ; LBJ and civil rights; Pickrick Restaurant affair; Secretary Gardner; 1968 election; unseating Georgia delegation in 1968 convention; evaluation of LBJ as President; involvement in Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

? Nothing since, no. It might be of interest to you that all of us who were appointed by Johnson offered to resign to President Nixon, and he asked us all to stay on. So the committee that President Johnson, or directors he'd appointed, President Nixon

Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. And also on Nixon today. I think Nixon personally has done a good job of not rocking the boat, keeping the thing sort of going along, trying to tune the situation up, as I see it. I hope that we can work something out without a major change in direction

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that, sometimes only four or five paragraphs, in which we would--well, the only one I can remember right now is one in which Mr. Nixon had made some rather some silly statement. I wrote out that, "Mr. Nixon has been caught with his planks down," which obviously

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