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Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

reorganize the Senate and either name himself as Democratic leader or else pick the person who would be the leader. G: Did he ever refer to Nixon during these explanations? V: No. G: As a desire to keep Nixon from being president? V: No, I don't

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and was very proud. I can remember when she came back as the dowager empress during the Nixon Administration being so horrified at how things had been moved around the house and that Mrs. Kennedy had really ruined what she thought was a furnishing plan

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There were allegations, on one occasion, that we put a microphone on candidate Nixon's plane when he was going into Albuquerque, New Mexico. President Johnson personally called me and wanted to know if I could find out, and this was specifically his only

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was that over the period of his presidency he called personally to complain about something or to directly compliment you about something on the order of maybe twelve or fifteen times. you can say that's a lot. And again, contrasted to the Nixon but that's

Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

commentator, debating with another man last night about eight o'clock, I believe it was. One man was debating in favor of Nixon and the other one came along and he came on strong telling them about McGovern. He said, "Thi,s is what you say about McGovern

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

!" He was amused, and from then on it became the Quadriad. But just to show you how history goes, about a year ago I read a little item in the paper saying "President Nixon called a meeting of the Quadriad which was formed and named during

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the Johnson Administration. In fact, I don't think the Nixon people have shipped them very much military aid. It has mostly been only spare parts, etc. I don't recall when that decision was made--rnaybe under Johnson, maybe under Nixon--but all this to-do

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

auditorium. the auditorium was filled. Had a program there and The police chief gave us a crowd estimate of 175,000, which I think was ballooned, but the big and important thing about that was Nixon had been there the day before, and that was what really

Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to have a piece by Billy Graham in Life during the campaign, which literally said, "Nixon ' s the man," you know. They called Kennedy forty-eight hours before this piece was to appear--they were stricken by their conscience up there--and said, "Well

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

at that time, I had met him, but I can't say that I knew him. This was 1962? There was a presidential election in 1960 with Kennedy and Nixon. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. As I say, the fact of the matter is that to a great extent he did give us considerable latitude, and the staff did not interfere excessively, in my judgment. I make a point of this because it's something that has been discussed very recently since Nixon

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Vice President Nixon. In this instance I think that there were times when the relationship was less close than it was at other times, but as the campaign came on, or as it neared, I was sure in my own mind that the President was going to decide to have

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

back quite far enough. Just yesterday when I was driving across Memorial Bridge and all the flags were out, the D.C. flag, the American flag, and some other flag I didn't recognize, I thought, "Nixon has a State visitor. Why don't I know who

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

stony. G: Di d LBJ have hi s own man in the Labor Department? H: No. Not in the sense that Nixon did, where he set up a director of communications and so forth .. Wirtz and [Arthur] Goldberg came in with Kennedy. Then when Goldberg went

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

informed myself, I might have made a bigger dent on it. But he realized that he'd have to hand it to somebody, and it would be just one more thing he'd have to do something about. Of course, he could have done exactly what Nixon did. G: Perhaps Nixon

Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

, Precincts in Summit County--that's the county in which 1L1

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

passed his Jury Trial Amendment. I remember the You see, what Johnson was doing was passing both amendments; then he had to deal with Russell and avoid a filibuster. I saw then Vice President Nixon and then Attorney General Bill

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

situation from a journalistic standpoint, because you have a political conflict built in there. Therefore the legislature--in that case and it's going to be true with the Nixon Administration--you have legislative leaders that the President of the other

Oral history transcript, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

right up through. I still do to a great extent. And I think we're in the middle of a political campaign which is drawing to a close, I think that a new President, whether he be Humphrey or Nixon, and, of course, I hope Nixon can put a fresh view

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

be about right. M: Do you have close knowledge of the role that Mr. Johnson may have played in the Eisenhower years in the realm of foreign policy? Mundt: Yes, as I said earlier, he fairly consistently supported the Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign
First meeting LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; 1948 Mundt-Nixon proposal; Joe McCarthy; USIA; Smith-Mundt Act of 1948; Arthur Larson; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign policy; Quemay-Matsu-Pescadores problem; Russia détente

Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the Bicentennial in '76 . Moynihan, of course, has increased in stature, and his influence is greater . Nixon himself, I had an hour and fifteen minute presentation with him in his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room, which is more than I ever had with (President
historic sites; Willard Hotel; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Building; Lady Bird’s time and attention; Federal Highway Commission; National Plaza; Owings close to the Nixon Administration; Nixon’s interest in the National Plaza; LBJ Library; Skidmore-Owings

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Yes, the lack of power and the lack of action. We always hear about the "new era" when Eisenhower gave Nixon more responsibility and more authority, and the same was supposedly true that Kennedy was to have added onto Johnson's responsibility from

Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)

on the one hand made his own decision about child health grants and [Congressman Harley O.] Staggers, on the other hand, made his decisions about public health grants. So they weren't combined until Nixon's administration. See, up until--Nixon was the one who

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It didn't appreciably change until, I believe, Nixon's administration when they permitted the Shah of Iran to increase the price. We went, I believe, from three to six to ten and all the way up to almost forty dollars a barrel in the last twenty years

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

said, "Yes, sir, but I've been about my Vice President's business," and he grinned and didn't say a word ! So we went on out to dinner and oddly enough Nixon was in Chasen's! So he was just about getting ready to leave, so we circled the block--the Vice

Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

suspect the Nixon Administration discontinued it because the emphasis was heavily on education and work training rather than, as with the CCC's, on the actual doing of large scale conservation projects. F: Within your purview how did these ghetto boys

Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it happen with Hum?hrey, although the relationship, as I viewed it, was different betwe2n Johnson and Humphrey than it was between Kennedy and Johnson --and I take it between Nixon and Agnew as I read the newspapers. You never know until you're inside

Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

that I, for example, had supported it under Kennedy. I supported Eisenhower's part of it. I support it now, by the way, under Nixon. Therefore there was an undoubted effort generally to discredit in journalism those of us who stood up for this war. I know

Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

States since Mr. Nixon has been in. I doubt that very few people on the Hill have ever gotten a call from the Presid ent [Nixon]. He just doesn' t do it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and it was going to take up a huge amount of money. And it did. It took up tremendous chunks of dough. So much that the Nixon administration decided they had to find some way to get the money back in the banks. So they created Student Loan Marketing Association

Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

didn't have to get that to win in a three-way race. M: You also had a pretty hard reelection campaign, and Nixon carried Indiana. Can you make an assessment of Mr. Johnson's--his Administration's--effect on the Democratic party in Indiana? Has it been

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that was said, I can't prove that. But some people that told me that I respect yery highly, and I wouldn't doubt their statements a bit. But Jim Murray was sent home, and it was a crucial vote. We lost it by a tie. Nixon broke the tie and voted against us

Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

formalized it, but he did some things with computers and things whiCh we hadn't done. project out of it. And then, Nixon has made a big So I went down specifically to do that, set up that operation. M: And you were domiciled in the White House

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