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  • even recall ever hearing of him. We had other members we were active with like Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon, but Lyndon Johnson, 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • Read -- Interview I -- 16 four years of Nixon than the remaining two and a half months of Johnson. M: What about in this last two and a half month period? The press has now made a major wrestling on mat or something or other between Secretary Rusk
  • with the extension service. You had 4-H Clubs; white 4-H clubs, black 4-H clubs. I remember even in the Nixon Administration Marian Edelman--have you talked to Marian? G: She's on my list. I haven't talked to her yet. R: Have you met her? G: No, I don't believe
  • automatically the best that's in him . got, no matter who he is . I think Johnson did it, and I think Nixon will do it, and I think Eisenhower did it . best they had . He gives the best he's I think they all put the Now where that best comes to in your
  • of the political figure like he is to take the time to [do this] . I don't think you would expect that of Nixon, and I don't think he would . Johnson felt it was a good thing, and the reason the Hirshhorn is around is, I think, through the efforts of President
  • and voted for him; I am proud of it. I wish you'd tell Mr. Nixon. B: Maybe he will someday have an opportunity to see all of this. To get on politics itself, what is involved in being an advance man on LBJ Presidential Library http
  • , with Vice President Nixon breaking the tie. Do you remember that vote? C: I don't remember that specific vote. was quite involved. a higher price. I remember the issue. The issue Wheat producers in the wheat areas, naturally, wanted We produce so much
  • , and is now Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice in the Nixon Administration . And a very competent man and a very good lawyer . He wrote an excellent opinion in that case . . And his finding was exactly
  • back now over the last seven years let's say, we sort of slowly wore down the opposition. We find now the Nixon Administration in the last few months has begun to take steps. I think this was probably inevitable because with DDT in particular--after all
  • schedule. And you know, all the goddamned minutiae that is required there to keep things kind of flowing. I'm told by the newspapers that President Nixon has really got a staff that handles that stuff superbly. They also squeeze out some
  • instead of the Nixon-Lodge ticket. B: What kind of audience was it? W: It was a mixed audience, primarily obviously of those who were interested in the election of this ticket. It was held in the Rice Hotel--a quite large group of rooms
  • was the man who let E. Howard Hunt into the Saigon files when he was trying to doctor them for the Nixon White House, but that's another story.) At any rate, I was told that the coup was coming, Vietnam whammo! So I went scooting up to the Capitol, got in, had
  • , it was fine with us. But we should not be pushing them in one direction or the other, and I think this was pretty consistently the U.S. policy under President Johnson, and I'm fairly confident that it will be exactly the same under President Nixon
  • of the first things Nixon did was to accept the implications of my memorandum and appoi~t an ~ecutive security force for the protection of embassies. There have been far fewer incidents of purse-snatching, and mugging, and bumping, and pushing since
  • . President Kennedy said, '~ou've got to do it because Nixon had it before, even though he didn't do anything; you're from the South, and if you don't take it, you'll be deemed to have evaded your responsibility. And so you've got to do it." So he [Vice
  • ; LBJ as President; Vietnam War; LBJ and credibility; Nixon Administration; civil rights leaders and the Vietnam War; LBJ and education; various Presidents’ support of civil rights; LBJ’s early position on civil rights; LBJ’s 1965 State of the Union
  • that their advice was, "Don't go too far too fast or China will enter the war, just like Korea." think this held us back to a great extent. And I I feel sure that until the time that President Nixon went to Peking and made some assurances to Mao Tse-tung
  • . Kennedy, Mr . Nixon, and Mr . Albert all in one little huddle . They were the only � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • on that one. know. And whether the Nixon Administration will or not, I don't I do feel that there are missions that manned aircraft can perform that missiles can't. of missiles. needs. Also I'm just not that certain of the total reliability So I think we
  • nominees of the Democratic Party. It was a pretty smooth thing for them to do. F: Also, in this election you could write in Eisenhower and Nixon on the Democratic ballot. D: Yes. F: How'd that work? D: Well, write-ins in Texas have always been
  • in Oklahoma, he wanted somebody on that ticket with him to help. F: In fact, he didn't sell him to Oklahoma. C: No> Oklahoma went for Nixon. problems. on down. But he was looking out for his own state I mean, he wanted Democrats to win in Oklahoma
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Clark Clifford -- Interview V -- 12 in a Nixon Administration. The real credit lies with President Johnson. F: During this period the role of the National Security Council changed
  • 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
  • ; Neighborhood Development Program; Bureau of the Budget; Housing Assistance Administration; turnkey process devised by Joe Burstine; “Tenant Service;” Model Cities Program; LBJ-Nixon transition.
  • on the news ticker. I think Mr. Nixon has done a very wise thing in getting the ticker out of his office. The President would watch this thing like a hawk and if something came over the ticker that he didn't like, bang! He'd be on the telephone to Shriver