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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

this was Liz's advice, and golly, I'm glad she spoke up and did it, because I think this is something that ought to have been done. Nixon had poured just as much effort into this 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would commonly be thought to be against it to support it, to endorse it. Nixon going to China, that way, that famous and well-trod political path. Getting a very conservative fellow like Walter George to come out for it suddenly makes it possible

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the senators of Eisenhower's party. F: Did you ever have any opportunity to observe his relationship with Nixon? J: Yes. F: How did they seem to get on? J: I always thought they were rather friendly. When Nixon was vice president and Johnson

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and communication; prison life; Vietnamese assistance from other communist countries; heavy bombing of Hanoi under President Nixon; Flynn's resentment of "liberals" visits to Vietnam.

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

would tell you that it will be one of the few anti-poverty efforts of the Great Society that will survive through the Nixon Administration simply because of its broad base of political support. In the last go around in the Congress, of the ninety

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it's President Nixon going to Florida or California, or President Johnson coming to the LBJ Ranch-F: Kennedy to Hyannisport. T: Kennedy to HyaLlnisport, I really think it r s almost imperative that a Preside:-tt get out of tmvn on Vleekends when he

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

from President Nixon, to complete its task no later than December 6th or 10th or something of the sort. I think it's necessary because the scope of the commission's work exceeds anything, I think, that even President Johnson had in mind at the time he

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

are in February, 1969, and this issue is being actively and vigorously debated within the Department of Labor now, and within the government, and I dare say as the result of President Nixon's Economic Opportunity Act message the other day there are those now who

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that Community Action was a controversial program, and that it might-L: You mean during the '68 campaign? G: Yes. I was wondering--do the mayors still support Community Action? If the Nixon Administration were to eliminate Community Action, what would

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- I -- 22 at your ass, you throw him a piece of raw meat." Which incidentally is, with hindsight now, just the opposite of what the Nixon

Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and that is--they editorialize about it, and congressmen sound off about it, and so forth--and that is that HEW runs a program that's independent of presidential directives or congressional wishes, et cetera. I'm thinking, of course, of latter days in which in the Nixon

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of this is on the record, but there's one question that arises here. As the campaign progressed, you were attacked by various candidates, particularly Mr. Nixon and Governor Wallace, and you began to reply to them very definitely and precisely. Did you have President

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and also I think it has resulted in substantially more public attention than I had anticipated. Part of that would be due to the manner in which President Nixon chose to treat the article; of course that added a good deal of the attention given

Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was big enough to see that and step down. F: I always had the feeling--this is getting way ahead of the story--that he would run in 1968 if Nixon got nominated, because he just would have liked to take him on. But he fooled me on that and evidently

Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

normally that we would have a tremendous influx, particularly in the month of January; but I read in the paper today where there is a strong possibility that Mr. Nixon will not have any kind of a parade. There's even a possibility they may not have 23

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

both of the Johnson and the Nixon Administrations. They did, after Tet, urge me to get out, I mean to give some talks for radio and TV and of course I had the press, conferences right along anyway. And I did urge Thieu to get out and talk. G: Did any

Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

aspects of this kind of a transition are the relationships among the people. a different style than President Johnson had. President Nixon has He brings a whole new crowd of folks into the White House, each of whom also has his own style, adapted

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

evidence that Johnson did in fact sit on his hands or even encourage the Nixon candidacy over the Humphrey candidacy? H: I have no evidence of that at all. F: In general, you've got a long distinguished career as a newsman, how would you, try to project

Oral history transcript, Daniel K. Inouye, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

they were stepped upon too often, so when this announcement was made, "No, no, no." One person stood up and said, "If this is the case, I'm voting for Nixon." That's how mad some of them were. M: Mr. Rayburn objected pretty strongly to his accepting

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the way that President Eisenhower used it, and the way in which I gather President Nixon is using them now. M: Cabinet meetings were pretty much pro forma, that type thing? D: Well, they very seldom took place and when they did take place they usually

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Yes, that's true. I know all those horror stories from the Nixon-Lodge campaign, but, well, I think the press did very much respect the job he was doing in Vietnam--trying to do. They respected certainly his patriotic motivation in being

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know some of the burdens of I've been here with Truman and Eisenhower and John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and now Mr. Nixon, and I think as much as you can, you've got to back, generally, you've got to back constituted authority. But that doesn't

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the second most powerful man in the nation when Eisenhower was President. He recognized that he could not be that powerful if Kennedy won the election. Now, you might say, "Well, Nixon would have won and then he'd still be Majority Leader." exactly what

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with a family--shot to pieces in this war--and that's the way he felt about it. M: I notice that with the new Administration coming in one of the programs that Mr. Nixon talked about, and there are now some Congressmen talking about it, is trying to convert

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Nixon reappointed me. B: Congratulations. H: I mean, it's uncanny that I'd be talking to you when I'm to continue as vice chairman for a five year appointment. surprise. B: That's excellent. It kind of came as a LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to wander through this bureaucracy and to have some notions of where the real pressure points are, and hopefully I'll be able to use that knowledge. B: Incidentally, since you've annOUnced your resignation, the school program which at first the Nixon

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson often do this kind of thing himself on the phone--get on the phone and call members? M: Yes. More so than President Kennedy. B: Have you had enough of the Nixon Administration to be able to see any kind of pattern in it? M: No, because

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

might have begun our opening to China at that time if the China lobby had not been so strong here, that we could have proceeded along the lines that the Nixon Administration eventually proceeded, talked to the Chinese about Vietnam. After all, they'd

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

How Vietnam influenced budget requests during the war; how LBJ’s decisions were affected by all the Vietnam-related pressures on him; the LBJ to Nixon transition; wage and price controls; rationing rumors. Oral history attached to memorial tributes

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

seventies. P: Seventies. It was right after Henry Kissinger had gone with Nixon, and he was coming to my house for the first time. When I reached my office, I wasn't here an hour before the phone rang, and it was the President. He said, "Moll ie, I

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

think that Mr. Nixon learned how to do this, but while between government jobs. He had a long way to go, but he had nothing but time and money, so he used both and was better trained when he LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Uow this was a practice that was followed also by preceding presidents and also by Mr. Nixon. But, for example, before we put the budget to bed, as always, there was a meeting of the President with the Secretary of Defense

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was, as I said, a very relaxed, cordial--there was an exchange of how things were going. He in a very animated fashion told me he was going to have breakfast the next morning with President Nixon, and as I said, was very cordial and very animated. [He