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Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview S-1 (I), 3/26/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • sunk Nixon, apparently. But he didn't use these things. M: Johnson could have what? D: Sunk Nixon. May I tell you what these are right now? After a while we'll have these on record. There are allegations--we know, of course, that Richard Nixon
  • Contacts with LBJ as VP; LBJ and civil rights legislation;LBJ's involvement with the downfall of Joseph McCarthy; HHH's position on Vietnam during 1968 campaign; RFK; Dallek's comments on Richard Nixon's involvement in the 1968 Vietnam peace
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • them all with him from Capital Hill to the White House. In the very early days of his presidency he called the man in the Senate who had been his mentor, the venerable, Richard Russell. And we have a recording of a little part of that conversation
  • the Vietnam War changed under Richard Nixon's leadership; fear of Chinese and Soviet involvement in Vietnam; comparing LBJ's and Bill Clinton's sources of information; the relationships between presidents and former presidents; LBJ's great capacity for taking
Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • was there during the effort to impeach Richard Nixon, and if there was any single experience I had in the Congress which made me know that public servants needed a very high and keen ethical sensitivity, my experiences in Watergate certainly underscored that for me
  • as a professor; Jordan's involvement in Congress during Watergate and the Nixon impeachment hearings; Jordan's sense of optimism; the large quantity of money that is necessary to run for political office; women in politics; Jesse Jackson's political career
Oral history transcript, Livingston Biddle, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1989, by Louann Temple (Item)
  • of an overture about the importance of the arts. Certainly there wasn't an Abe Fortas nor a Leonard Garment, who served the same kind of purpose under Richard Nixon. T: I guess Mrs. [Joan] Mondale did, then, under-- 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • support for the arts in return for support for a civil rights bill; gaining support from influential people such as John Fogarty; efforts to get legislation passed that session; Richard Goodwin's chances of becoming chairman of the NEA; members of LBJ's
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • ; it would be interesting to know what [Jack] Valenti and [Richard] Goodwin--Goodwin doesn't have a whole lot of truth in him but he's bright as hell. D: McPherson? B: Harry would have the most thoughtful view. My experience with him was very much trial
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)
  • , and if it got it, whether it could appropriately use it. I was assigned by the Ambassador (James C. Dunn) to accompany this Herter subcommittee throughout Italy ·for three weeks, and one of the members that I got to know very ( well was Richard Nixon, who
  • Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1b (I), 4/29/1986, by Walter Richter (Item)
  • of the A&O and what it was all about. But while (inaudible) it would be useful for posterity for us to get some of this information on tape particularly about the individual members. Bill, you were there, you and Lyndon Johnson and Horace Richards and Vernon
  • Richards, Vernon Whiteside; LBJ's college career; biographical information on Walter Grady, Deason, Albert Harzke, Wilton Woods, Archie Wiles, Hollis Frazer; jobs handed down from one White Star to another; biographical information on Sidney "Sub" Pyland
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • : There was anxiety about it, but it wasn't dominant. It wasn't anything like as acute as the one that our friends had in 1973. D: You mean Nixon and [?] B: Yes. D: What do you think was Johnson's general objective here? To try and get this settled as quickly
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , but no southern state unless we have something that will appeal to them. He asked him, "Do you want Nixon to be President? He called you a traitor." Rayburn always thought Nixon called him a traitor. Nixon brought me the speeches and they contained a phrase
Oral history transcript, Billy Graham, interview 1 (I), 10/12/1983, by Monroe Billington (Item)
  • , and I also gave all the main addresses during the Kennedy presidency and during the Eisenhower period except two. I quit when Nixon became president because he had asked me to lead the inauguration prayer as well as preach the first service at the White
Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview S-I, 8/1994, by Douglass Cater (Item)
  • the Vietnam War was still fresh in the memories of many people. DC: It was still going on at that time, because that was during the Nixon Administration. I think we've covered the beginnings well enough. Stages of growth; and I think we should try to confine
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, interview S-IX, 8/12/1969, by William J. Jorden (Item)
  • by the conference Secretary Dulles had with the leadership of the Senate in... I believe it was '54 when Nixon announced during that period that we would be p:itting troops in that area of the world, and Dulles consulted us about supporting the French following
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview S-1, 8/14/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • the help of some of my friends who did a little nudging, Nixon re-appointed me. So I stayed on there as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. And another facet of my life unfolded. I got to see Washington first hand, learned for the first time how
Oral history transcript, Robert S. McNamara, interview 1 (I), 1/8/1975, by Elspeth D. Rostow (Item)
  • and the new systems of management to which I have referred were not so fully institutionalized as to be preserved in their entirety in subsequent administrations, and particularly in the Nixon Administration. So much for success and failure. I want to end