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Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • hard to We in this agency, like the term that President Nixon recently used in saying sufficiency. That's rather vague but deliberately so, because to try to decide what level of forces would be enough for each side to have an assured destruction
  • Division of ACDA; General Wheeler; President Nixon; ICBM; arms control proposal; LBJ's interest in arms control
Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • their language, but they had much to The way to do it is to come to that office with a broad acquaintanceship in the first instance. If you don't have it, the more I think about it, then you shouldn't be President. I don't think Nixon has got a sufficiently
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went in we got aerial photographs of Nixon's visit there. last big name who had been there had been Nixon. The We had aerial photo- graphs so we could determine what kind of a crowd was there by looking down at this aerial photograph. was. You could
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Senate . nize the Senate . If he voted Democrat, the Democrats would orga­ It was that close . Nixon was sitting in the chair as vice president . I looked down at the-floor, and I saw Lyndon . He wandered around a little bit, very relaxed, sat
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Anyway, you see what I mean; you balanced it with these And nobody has matched the quality and effectiveness of that commission yet in the women's area. Nobody. Nixon's is just a silly marshmallow compared with it. G: What about Eleanor Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • right now incidentially, there's a big dog fight on for who gets the trade stick in the Nixon Administration. But Ambassador Roth and the State Depart- ment and the Commerce Department, Labor, Treasury would all have views on a trade issue
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , with the beginning of the Nixon Administration in January of '69. I've been here a year and a hal f. F: Hhen did you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? W: The first time I met him was when I was district attorney in Dallas. F: You weren't active
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Amarillo did when it chose to certify a ballot that would list Eisenhower and Nixon as the nominees of the, I think they called it, the Texas Democrats. That, I thought, was a subterfuge and the mis- leading thing to do. I opposed it, unsuccessfully
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that this is going to become a Rand position. As you may know, there is one Rand person as assistant director in the Nixon Administration, Jim Schlesinger, who was also a classmate of all of us at Harvard at the same time. He was a graduate student at Harvard
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the President's health and an arrangement whereby if he were disabled, either because of a heart attack or something, then McCormack would step in and take over the duties temporarily, I guess relating to an agreement that Nixon and Eisenhower had worked out. Carl
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --that the Democratic nominee had to be Hubert Humphrey, and the Republican nominee had to be Dick Nixon, simply because they were the only two men that didn't split the party irre­ trievably. Humphrey could hold together both the southern moderates and the northern
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 4 (IV), 3/8/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • administration we were not able to get very much excitement on the part of Europe in what was going on in other parts of the world. And the same thing has been true under the Nixon Administration. Europe eventually will recover from its isolationism
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on three and a half months in the Nixon Administration and am now out of office . M: You had been Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for ISA for some time prior to the assassination? B: Yes, I was appointed by President Kennedy at the very outset
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in some detail then. It was not an idea that sprang full-blown after M o y n i h a n joined Nixon in 1969. It was, again, a focusing--the positive aspect of it, of the country and the medi a, whether one 1 i ked the ki nd of focus-- on mj nori ty
Oral history transcript, Toinette Bachelder, interview 1 (I), 2/11/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the same type of trip, covering the same ground that President Nixon is embarking on at the end of the month. We went to Bonn and then to England, stopped off to see--I can't remember the Prime Minister's name--it was after Churchill-M: Of England, you
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • really pertinent here, but I'm curious about : you were in Caracas after the famous spitting incident on Senator Nixon or Vice President Nixon? B: I accompanied him . F: Oh, you were along . B: Dick Rubottom, a Texan, and I accompanied him
Oral history transcript, Cyrus Vance, interview 3 (III), 3/9/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the Soviets indicated that the North Vietnamese wished to see how much progress could be made between early November and January 20 in the hopes that it could be so far down the road that when President Nixon came in, the shape of it would be molded
Oral history transcript, Warren G. Woodward, interview 2 (II), 5/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 3 (III), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • back in with the Nixon Administration as under secretary. And he stayed on and now he is an outstanding lobbyist here in the city. I think he is moving into the faculty of the University of Texas. Did you know that? He is lecturing one or two days
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 5 (V), 3/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • the big as t ronaut dinner , following the trip to the moon, in Los Angeles, and Senato r Cranston as a Califo rnia senato r, was not invited . I didn't think Johnson would ever have done that. Certain ly Cranston was no Nixon lnver, but he
Oral history transcript, Alexander Buel Trowbridge, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was a very potent factor on the Hill. .t ration is playing basically the same game. I think the Nixon Adminis­ They're saying, "We are free traders, but we're going to try and get a voluntary expansion of the textile agreement in order to satisfy
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 6 (VI), 10/31/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • and attended football games. G: Did you come to the dedication? H: Yes, I was here at the dedication. G: Can you recall any impressions you had at that time? H: He seemed as active as ever. President Nixon was here. And I do recall one comment President
Oral history transcript, Ferd Kaufman, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1997, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kaufman -- I -- 15 G: Did you know the White House photographer, [Yoichi] Okamoto? K: Yes, yes, sure did. The fact of the matter is, there may be a picture right there of Lyndon and Nixon at the Ranch that he gave me. Yes
Oral history transcript, Manuel Cohen, interview 1 (I), 7/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : There was that famous letter that Mr. Nixon allegedly circulated last fall. C: That was circulated, I don't know how widely. But it was circulated. M: Was it true, as it would seem in the case from the facts of that, that the investing community disliked what Mr
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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, William G. Bowdler, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • will do; I think it's significant that President Nixon has asked the Congress for $400 million in loan money and $82 million in technical assistance to continue the Alliance. I wouldn't be surprised if Governor [Nelson A.] Rockefeller will strongly
Oral history transcript, William D. Carey, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • Administration was delighted to find it in. I can remember during the Kennedy-Nixon campaign I was approached by a former staffer in the Bureau of the Budget who had gone to work for Senator Kennedy, and he came to me and suggested that we have lunch. He told me
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was quite different from theirs, so I never had any hesitations about staying on. professional. I've always regarded myself as a I would have stayed on for the Nixon Administration if they had chosen to regard me as a professional instead of a Johnson
  • ; problems regarding Komer’s ambassadorship; losing his job when Nixon became President; LBJ’s visit with Indira Ghandi; how Komer met LBJ and discussed the Pakistan-India issue; White House visits from foreign dignitaries; sending wheat to India; comparing
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 3 (III), 9/27/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to California two weekends in a row at the time of the Cambodian incursion, which was 1970 or 1971, during the Nixon Administration. But first I went out to California once during the Johnson Administration because the State Department had a request
Oral history transcript, James H. Tate, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Even with Nixon today it seems to be bothering him. There appears to be a solution for everything, but there doesn't seem to be a solution to the Vietnam War. President Johnson always seemed to think, "Maybe it will all be straightened out
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • an assumption, not that it functioned under, but that this program--it really started with Mr. Nixon as Vice President, when the Equal Employment-B: Your immediate ancestor was the President's committee which was headed by the Vice President-- LBJ
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or Commission was the predecessor to the Cultural Center Commission, which in turn was a predecessor to the Kennedy Center Commission. It was through then-Senator Johnson that I was appointed as a member. I was actually appointed by President Nixon, who
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the country as a scapegoat or something like that, of course. But I think by and large the demonstrations have not been of a nature that would alarm anybody. M: There 2ave been incidences, several of Nixon's-- R: Well, Caracas yes. M: Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Perkins of problems~ Under Nixon, he tried to tear them all I down~ able through hearings and so forth to hold on to them. ~~ 13
Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -stop, left Vietnam in June 1971, and returned to Vietnam in June 1972, and stayed until 31 March. G: 1973? S: Yes. G: How would you describe the sea change that we experienced when the Nixon Administration came in? How did that impact on your
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • passed; Alaska's vote for Nixon in 1960; Vietnam War