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Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • politically. H: I frankly don't believe that the President foresaw Community Action developing in the manner in which it developed. Pat Moynihan has pointed out that there were at least three objectives and really quite mutually exclusive for people who
Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Johnson? S: Yes. Pat McNamara was, even though somewhat junior in status in the Senate, nevertheless by the fortuitous set of circumstances that resulted in the selection of the right committees when he came in in '54 had already advanced
Oral history transcript, Sharon Francis, interview 3 (III), 6/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , and then we got Liz in an elevator and sent her down. I sort of patted Fuller on the back and said, "Now don't you worry, and don't you ever forget anything she said, because you know she's right. But don't let it get to you.” Charlie and I rolled our eyes
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 42 (XLII), 11/5/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • Governor Pat Brown, his wife, Bernice, and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies; India Edwards; friends such as Zendra Pipkin and Richard and Maureen Neuberger; LBJ's battle with Tom Miller over what Austin citizens had to pay for electricity; Luci's
Oral history transcript, Nathaniel Owings, interview 1 (I), 3/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and vigor, ready to back our efforts . We were a fresh committee-­ council, a wonderful group of people on the council by the way, made up of a cross-section of disciplines . There was Fritz .Gutheim, an architectural historian of note---there was Pat
  • historic sites; Willard Hotel; J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI Building; Lady Bird’s time and attention; Federal Highway Commission; National Plaza; Owings close to the Nixon Administration; Nixon’s interest in the National Plaza; LBJ Library; Skidmore-Owings
Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Not at all. One of our senior executives, a member of our board of directors, was very active in the Nixon campaigns, and I guess I'm identified as a Johnson Democrat, and yet we sit in the same meetings. F: Now, you mentioned Arthur Krim. Is there kind
  • fundraising dinner at the Ambassador Hotel; housing and Proposition 14; Pat Brown; Wasserman’s appointment to the executive committee of the Kennedy Center; LBJ’s ability to be a 'real' person; visits to the Ranch; 1968 election; the 'fatigue factor
Oral history transcript, Earle C. Clements, interview 1 (I), 10/24/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that stood out above any other in the 1958 contest, it was Utah. I felt so good after being in California, and we got Clair Engle to run. Actually, Pat Brown really wanted to run for the Senate, but he had agreed on Clair Engle to run for the Senate. Then Pat
Oral history transcript, James Farmer, interview 2 (II), 7/20/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • not possibly accept it because of that. M: Because of the way they went about it. F: Yes, because there had been too much of a tradition of the establishment picking our leaders, and saying, "We'll pat this one on the head and oppose this one." M: Bless
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Allen, interview 1 (I), 5/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • a daily column. By that time Pearson, who'd collaborated on the book, had been discharged by the Baltimore Sun for writing a chapter in the second Merry-Go-Round, called "More Merry-Go-Round" about Pat (Patrick Jay) Hurley, then Secretary of War, and his
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 2 (II), 10/31/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and that with the divisions in the party, that Richard Nixon was absolutely a cinch to be elected and that unless he would consent to go on the ticket, then the ball game was over. That's how that happened. The next visitor in the room was former Governor of Texas, John
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 5 (V), 5/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It didn't appreciably change until, I believe, Nixon's administration when they permitted the Shah of Iran to increase the price. We went, I believe, from three to six to ten and all the way up to almost forty dollars a barrel in the last twenty years
  • Steve Mitchell; the oil business; drought relief; President Eisenhower; foreign aid; Chiang Kai-Shek; Bricker Amendment; Senator Walter George; Allan Shivers; the 1954 Senate election; Dixon-Yates controversy; Taft-Hartley amendments; Pat McCarran
Oral history transcript, William Friday, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1987, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • myself to know that he could be very harsh, very mean, very difficult. I couldn't work for him. He was driven in lots of ways. Goldman states all this in his book. After that experience, I just sort of dropped out of sight until Kent State. Pat [Daniel
Oral history transcript, Paul H. Douglas and Emily Taft Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a great law it was. I've always been very curious to know what the Nixon Administration has done in enforcing it. G· Now Senator, you also worked on the National Commission on Urban Problems. D· Yes. Operating through Joseph Califano, I was offered
Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 6 (VI), 8/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Connally was secretly helping Nixon; LBJ briefing Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace; phone communication on airplanes; a cancelled trip to Russia; transition among the staff; Stuart Udall renaming D.C. Stadium to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium; the time
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • had. But as I looked at the landscape, Stevenson had been defeated twice. I felt this was fatal. Our problem was to oust the incumbent Administration, to beat Richard Nixon at that time, who obviously had the advantages that the ins had. I felt
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 8 (VIII), 4/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not going to be able to pull it off. I am concerned about that because I think the 1960 debates, for example, the Nixon-Kennedy debates, had a tremendous impact on the result of that very, very close election. Now, that fell into our lap. That wasn't
  • of congressional liaison staff in LBJ's 1964 presidential campaign; the 1960 JFK-Nixon debates; presidential debates since 1960, such as the Reagan-Mondale debates of 1984; campaign finance issues; the rise of political action committees (PACs) and lobbying
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • at the convention. On the first ballot, we're going to be faced with a choice between Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. And at that time people like Dave Lawrence, DiSapio, Dick Daley, Williams, Pat Brown, are all going to have to make the decision I've already
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 13 (XIII), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • directions. Also, the Republicans really had gotten themselves into a bad deal that year. You know, to have Knowland resign his Senate seat to run for governor against Pat Brown--you didn't run against Pat Brown. If you run against Pat Brown, it just
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was covering Congress. As it turned out, the Congress came back, you remember, in 1960, for the "Rump Session," so-called. As the rookie in the office, I was the only one around and I that entire cov~r~d session, Kennedy and Nixon and Johnson
Oral history transcript, Robert Short, interview 1 (I), 8/22/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • well, and both were close personal friends. They continued to be close personal friends even after the 1968 debacle, [friends] of mine, but I do think their own relationship was strained. Back in 1968 when Humphrey almost beat [Nixon], if McCarthy had
  • -raising for Humphrey in Texas; possible Democratic presidential nominees for 1980; Humphrey's refusal to publicize information about Anna Chennault's dealings with Richard Nixon and the South Vietnamese government in 1968; Democratic Party finances
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --there was talk of Pat Brown, there was talk of Hershel Loveless, of Freeman, there was talk of [Governor Frank] Docking from Kansas, I believe it was, and there were so many that had been rumored that they would be Vice President on the Kennedy ticket. out who
Oral history transcript, Robert Oliver, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • extent Wayne Morse, people like-G: Kefauver? 0: Well, Kefauver, but he was in a different category . What was the senator from Pennsylvania? Clark . He was a loner . Liberal senator? Oh, Joe These senators--Pat McNamara--were not in the Johnson
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 7 (VII), 11/2/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and the questions of conflict of interest. We already read in the paper yesterday that President Nixon, in the midst of a major antitrust case, picked up the telephone and called the Deputy Attorney General and told him not to file an appeal. Later that order
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 1 (I), 7/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 3 (III), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was when Eisenhower was elected president in November of 1952. He took office January 20, 1953. named a fellow named Herbert Brownell to be attorney general. He So Richard Nixon and Brownell realized the only way that they could continue
  • ; Dixiecrat-Republican coalition; Senator Russell’s run for president; Pat McCarran; Donald Cook; Allan Shivers; Drew Pearson
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and not running for re-election. here: So there were three nominations being held Harding's, mine, and Pat Kennedy as director of the VISTA program. So this was the situation then as Congress took off in August for its vacation. And when they came back
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • understood this was an independent commission that was bipartisan in nature. And that there were five commissioners, and that only three could be of one political party. It was something that Nixon has never understood, but Johnson did. He thought
Oral history transcript, Raymond H. Lapin, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • officer until 1966. They had taken over pretty well by then, and I left to do some work for the Statecr California. For a few months my title was Commissioner of Economic Development and Chief Economic Advisor to the Governor. I worked for Pat Brown
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 7 (VII), 5/24/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the 1930s--they used to teach us that one of the best examples of a vicious, money-grabbing senator, what they will do to keep getting elected, was old Senator [Pat] McCarran from Nevada. He was the one who forced the United States through his machinations
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 9 (IX), 2/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the nose-to-nose confrontation with the Soviets in size of military force. Even when it came to the Middle East, it was just not there in Johnson. I would regard Johnson on the one hand, and somebody like Pat Moynihan and Bruce Babbitt, the governor
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came up for that, and the Vice President, Mr. [Richard] Nixon, with Pat dropped by to pay his respects to his President's Cabinet members. In fact, we had a large quota of Republicans there: the Speaker, Joe Martin--it was a brief interlude when he
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cross section of that. I think we provided a vehicle for people to talk out their problems. We did not provide a vehicle for Pat JvIoynihan, and that's what most of the press criticism related t o , Pat having many, many press contacts. The point
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • balls. Get me something else." was embarrassed about that. Luci was there, and she was embarrassed because she had young Pat. Mrs. Johnson They weren't married, or maybe they just had been married, but anyway they were kind of embarrassed about
Oral history transcript, John Sherman Cooper, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Richard Nixon when Nixon was vice president and presiding over the Senate? C: No, I can't say that I particularly noticed it. Nixon, when he was vice president, looking back, he didn't seem to play a very strong role. He traveled quite a bit. vice
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, Leverett Saltonstall, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And in his earlier day, Pat McCarren and I worked together on State and Justice, and so on. And many, most of the appropriations, I would say, went through without too much politics involved. The one thing I say with a smile was on the retirement. Now
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had Connally come up there to speak. I.introduced him to 10,000 people up there. We took him to dinner, and Nellie was there, and I said, "Connally, there's one thing I don't understand about you: Nixon don't have any character. how you could