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  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 Mc: Now did you try to explain all of this to the incoming Nixon Administration? T: Yes. Mc: Did they understand what you were talking about? T: The man they selected--Floyd Hyde, former Hayor of Fresno, had been
  • participation; communication between citizens and city people; helping cities of all sizes in all regions; funding Washington D.C.; the Eccho Neighborhood Cooperation Model in Columbus. OH; Model Cities Supplementary money; transition to Nixon Administration
  • that in the review of foreign policy which I am sure Mr. Nixon's Administration intends to make that we would look SEATO over and decide whether we need that particular coalition. present form. I doubt it in its Or whether it would be possible and desirable to put
  • the Eisenhower Administration, there were any number of involvements of the White House in critical wage negotiations. Vice President Nixon, for example, was heavily involved in the steel wage settlement of early 1960. But I think there was a degree
  • with high hopes, good press, made some very noticeable impact; and yet, in public esteem, in congressional esteem, kind of dropped off. And still, at the time when the Nixon Administration came in, in a sense with a mandate to discontinue it, LBJ
  • of weeks later to President Nixon, and the timing is good. It wouldn't have been if I'd listened to my own counsel instead of his on the timing. B: Had you before that time formed a personal opinion about the Vietnam War? L: About the war itself. we
  • of the provisions that we were much opposed to. Vice President Nixon at that time cast the deciding vote, and he cast it against us. But Johnson, who was Majority Leader at the time, was very much with us on that particular episode. MU: He was voting your way
  • had and that's when I tried to be a spokesman and go on the attack against the administration of Nixon. Now, that's an understandable role. You can dig your teeth into it and have some degree of effectiveness. But now you have a Democratic president
  • and Nicolae Ceausescu; San Antonio formula; Anna Chennault; Nixon people’s conviction that LBJ Administration hurt U.S. relations with the South Vietnamese; junior members not in total sympathy with its Department.
  • they needed their own bank, so I helped write and defend that legislation. F: Do you think this need for a bank for Latin America came out of sort of a nationalistic pride, or do you think--? B: Yes. If you'll remember, Mr. Nixon had certain problems
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
  • lost Alaska. The weekend· before the election, the Sunday before election on Tuesday, the Nixons came to Anchorage. It took three days to be sure of the vote in Al aska, a·nd many of us fel t that that trip was what turned that trick. Many people
  • passed; Alaska's vote for Nixon in 1960; Vietnam War
  • bore down on the Commission. I don't know that Nixon did. I don't think Ike ever did, to the best of my knowledge. I was very close to Washington in the period of the latter years of Roosevelt certainly all the way up through the Nixon Administration
  • for International Organization Affairs, and then inl965 \ made assistant secretary, where you finished out that administration. S: That is correct. M: Of course, you have been in NEA [Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs] since then with the Nixon
  • accepted it and I said, "All right. I'll take the Interstate Commerce Commission job,"--which I did, parenthetically, and stayed the seven years. And then at the end of that time Nixon was president, and he reappointed me and I served on until I was seventy
  • 1964 legislation; Civil Rights bill; Immigration Bill; Elemenary and Secondary Education Bill; Rent Supplement Bill; Teacher Corps program; tax surcharge; Joe Fowler; Congressman Mills; Nixon
  • the President was in the campaign of 1960. But in 1960 I traveled mainly with Nixon and with Kennedy, so that the answer to your question is that I really had hardly set eyes on the man until early in 1965 when NBC assigned me to the White House as its White
  • out a job. II Up until then the only vice president we'd known, really, was [Alben] Barkley, who made fun of the job a lot, and Nixon, who we didn't really know much about. So, we didn't think of Dad as standing around in black tie at ceremonial
  • was fairly new still, and as we're finding out, I think, in the Nixon Administration, the liaison between Congress and the White LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • wash him, and then I'd shave him, and then I'd spank him," and everybody was whooping and hollering. It was a terrific performance, and he was relatively effective, I think. Tennessee finally, over the religious issue, did go for Nixon, but I think
  • gave them to the White House, last And Mrs. Nixon sent me a very kind letter thanking LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Democratic Party; Connally’s appointment as Secretary of Treasury by President Nixon; rise of Republican party in Texas; LBJ’s ability as a communicator and as a politician; LBJ in retirement.
  • campaign, I think, at Santa Barbara. G: Was that Nixon? Me: No, with Dawes. G: With whom? Me: Charlie Dawes. F: With Mc: The first Vice President he ever saw. G: Oh, Charles Dawes. Mc: This was 1924, I think he said. ~ vice president
  • Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.
  • in seeing if his predictions came true. Jvlc: Did he make any other pol itical comments at that time? About the Nixon Administration, or his own? M: No, that was the only one that I remember. Mc: Well, let me ask you this: he, not too long before, had
  • . This was drafted by--a guy from Fortune magazine who had some people do the drafting. I remember he had a chap come in, a very nice guy, and this group of Republicans pushed that. I know he was with us on middle-income housing. Dick Nixon might have been with us
  • proposition. In fact, if we'd have tried it a year earlier it would have worked. Unfortunately, we tried it during a year where it couldn't possibly work, but we didn't know that at the time. And Charlie Murphy, of course, got busy in the transition to Nixon
  • . The most Nixon can appoint is something like 2,000 people, I think it is . a copy of the Green Book . I saw So I think Mr . Johnson might have been more successful if he didn't have the war on his neck and could have turned his attention to the bad
  • 70 per cent of them went to Nixon and correspondingly we lost the state by about 60,000 votes. F: Did the Vice President coordinate his part of the campaign pretty closely with President Kennedy? Or was he given a certain area to carve out
  • recommendations. To my knowledge we never had situations like the problem that Nixon's now having with [John] Knowles between [Robert] Finch and [Everett M.] Dirksen. And if we had any, I'm sure that the President was fully capable of ironing out the situation
  • , 1995 INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 H: Let's see: May 22 [1971], when the Library was dedicated I was here and Nixon was the chief speaker. G: How did LBJ look
  • years, and the Nixon years. So he was a very wise fellow, but he was not about to get down into this street-corner brawling that was involved here. Unfortunately I enjoyed it a little bit at the time. I shouldn't have done it either, I suppose
  • in the Middle East with more sensitivity than anybody in that last two years. He's still there; he's doing the same job for the Nixon Administration. M: There's a whole potpourri of what you might call minor issues that I might just mention to see if you think
  • is announced. calling. And then "White House calling" It's a lame duck White House Then pretty soon you have very nice meetings with your successor if they have been named--in this case, Gerry Van der Heuvel and Lucy Winchester. F: Where did the Nixons