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Oral history transcript, George McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Carter, now Reagan. Since 1968 when Nixon came in and he wanted to do away with the Great Society, he wanted to close the Job Corps centers and finally relented. This year, 1981, there is a greater number of slots
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Stew [Stewart] Hensley was the senior United Press correspondent. The foreign news agencies, Reuters and Agence France Presse, had Pat [John W.] Heffernan and Jean Lagrange respectively, both senior diplomatic reporters. The specials, that is, the daily
Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, III, interview 1 (I), 8/13/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . And all of us standing in awe, and here are these three men coming out just acting like they were the best of friends, patting each other on the back, you know, and that thoroughly impressed me. I'll never forget that. Kennedy and Johnson and Humphrey. So
Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • . Stew [Stewart] Hensley was the senior United Press correspondent. The foreign news agencies, Reuters and Agence France Presse, had Pat [John W.] Heffernan and Jean Lagrange respectively, both senior diplomatic reporters. The specials, that is, the daily
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • into contact with Jere Cooper, who was the chairman for awhile, and of course ultimately with Wilbur D. Mills, with whom I worked out the Medicare plan. Similarly on the Senate side, I intimately knew and worked with Walter George; I worked with Pat Harrison
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Maguire, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • simply stepped through the French doors, in from the patio area. That may have been later; that is, it may have been just before the actual broadcast. Lynda, Luci and Pat also showed up at this point. All I remember is 10 LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 3 (III), 6/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Billy Graham was sort of a president gatherer. In subsequent years I noticed with what ease he moved to Nixon and then Ford and then Carter. Now he seems to be breaking a little bit with Reagan on the nuclear issue. I met Billy Graham after
Oral history transcript, Hugh Sidey, interview 1 (I), 7/22/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • at the Ranch. daughters. It was fascinating. There were the There was luci there and Pat Nugent, or one of the boy friends--I don't know. It was before she was married. It was a rol- licking discussion and all of that. Then very shortly thereafter I
Oral history transcript, Mike Manatos, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • President Nixon has sent up is something we toyed with for a long time. I ·think there are a lot of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be made for the future, favorite sons in some instances, like [Michael] DiSalle in Ohio, Pat Brown's activities in California and the rest. But the effort was to build up within the party a recognition that Kennedy could be a strong candidate for president
  • Virginia primary and what JFK learned from it; the JFK/Nixon debates; JFK's handling of the Bay of Pigs incident; O'Brien meeting with each cabinet member to review roles in the Kennedy Administration; JFK's and O'Brien's time spent learning their roles
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 4 (IV), 8/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • too many reasons that Luci joined the Catholic Church [that] was not good politics. F: Did her interest in this precede her meeting Pat, or did this come after? C: Oh, I think Luci was almost born with a rosary in her future because she's a deeply
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth (Liz) Carpenter, interview 5 (V), 2/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is announced. calling. And then "White House calling" It's a lame duck White House Then pretty soon you have very nice meetings with your successor if they have been named--in this case, Gerry Van der Heuvel and Lucy Winchester. F: Where did the Nixons
Oral history transcript, John W. Hechinger, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (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, 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, 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, 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, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -17- Not a bit in the world and I would say that there were over 150,000 people on the streets welcoming them as they came through. It was a much larger turnout for Kennedy and Johnson than Nixon got
Oral history transcript, Carl T. Curtis, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , 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
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 4 (IV), 2/29/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of them, you know, would just come right out and say, "Why don't you support me?" Now, Stevenson thought that he, for the first time, could win in 1960, because he thought he had a sufficient following and that Nixon would be by far much weaker than
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 24 (XXIV), 11/15/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that one of the most faithful, and one of the nicest, ones we ever had was Pat Nixon. I don't think she missed a Tuesday unless she was out of the country with her husband. We took it rather seriously. I, too, later on acquired that job. We had a high point
Oral history transcript, William R. (Bob) Poage, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to the legislature. I served down there in both the House and the Senate. F: Was that during Pat Neff's days, or was that just after Neff? P: I served ten days or a week under Pat Neff. the outgoing governor when I was elected. Mrs. Ferguson administration
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 2 (II), 3/18/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on the staff get written? This Patrick Anderson book, for example, what role does the staff play here? Is this extracurricular or is this part of the direction of the office to get the public educated or what? L: Well, on Pat Anderson--in particular Anderson
  • House staff's public exposure; Pat Anderson; press criticism of domestic programs under LBJ; the long process of enacting domestic programs; urban housing developements; Model City task force members and work; funding Model Cities and getting
Oral history transcript, David S. Black, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this sort of thing was . And I said, "What shall I expect?" And he said, 'Well, he will give you a pat on the back and march you through the Oval Room and give you a little pep talk and tell you that he expects loyalty and he knows I'll do a good job
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , were Pat Blair in the Business School; Millard Ruud in the Law School; Jack Otis, the dean of Social Work; Steve McDonald in Economics; Bob Divine in History; Emmette Redford in Government; and myself. So. . . . M: Any significance in the discipline
  • dean; LBJ getting a car stuck in the mud at the LBJ Ranch; the Secret Service supplying LBJ with drinks as he drove around the Ranch; social visits with the Johnsons; Pat Nugent’s boat-driving skills; LBJ as a storyteller; McGeorge Bundy’s input on LBJ
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . 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
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • quite regularly; Pat Moynihan was there part of the time; Bob Martin was one of the real regulars--he was there almost all of the time, a lawyer in Washington, and a guy that was tremendously 25 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 21 (XXI), 6/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by Nixon, who discussed this with me as a result of a detailed conversation with the President-Elect. The Nixon Administration ran with it. I was asked by the President to co-chair a citizens' committee to carry on this advocacy. I considered it totally non
  • continued advocacy work for postal reform as co-chair of a citizen's committee; legislation enacted under Richard Nixon to give the Post Office Department more independence and the ability to self-finance; lack of political interest in the Post Office
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 3/3/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • general duties that he would anticipate. The Johnson White House staff was actually quite small. For example, I handled appointments with one young male assistant and two secretaries. I think today in the Nixon White House there must be twelve-fourteen
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 3 (III), 4/22/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know how he worked that. He seemed to get along with them, but he was prepared to challenge them. for the record. It might be interesting It had to be early in 1963, yes, it was 1963. There was Humphrey and I and Muskie, and Pat McNamara
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1,200,000 against Goldwater . That was even twice the victory that Jack Kennedy had had himself against Nixon . I first met Lyndon Johnson when I got elected to Congress, and Mr . McCormack brought me down to the Board of Education that old Sam had . G: Who
Oral history transcript, Eugene Williams and Helen Williams, interview 1 (I), 10/27/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vice President? The year President Kennedy beat Richard Nixon. HW: We must have been at the ranch. EW: What was that question? MG: In 1960, rernember, when he was elected Vice President, the night of the election, I was wondering if you were
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 3 (III), 1/16/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh McPherson -- Interview III -- 2 on. I think that's the view of most of the members of the regular White House press. There were some who were particularly close to Bill--Hugh Sidey, Pat Anderson, some of the younger reporters--who
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- V -- 19 years from now, the portion of Pat Anderson's book on presidential assistants
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of garrulous fellow and Jack was sort of neat and tidy. (Laughter) Let's face it, we've seen more and more of it since the days of Kennedy and Johnson and the advent of television, going all the way back [to] the Nixon-Kennedy debates, and the realization