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things Teddy said about anybody are you and Nixon. would see him. You two never Now Nixon sees him, and he thinks he's a great hero. You can take Teddy into camp in fifteen minutes." Johnson said, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
; 1968 convention; Anna Chennault and Nixon; LBJ and the Kennedy people

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of on a circuit with the party after the appearance with Humphrey, or how did this general campaign develop? A: I don't really know. F: You mean, Pat Brown? A: Yes. I did get involved with the governorship [race]. [It was] President Nixon's worst defeat

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, 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, C.R. Smith, interview 2 (II), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There wasn't any lack of loyalty to Johnson, it was just an old relationship which kept going. G: How about LBJ and Nixon during this campaign? S: (Laughter) I don't know anything about it. any intention of helping Johnson. I don't think Nixon had LBJ

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

will end up dominating Nixon, and the country will be in economic difficulties all over again. F: How did you learn you were coming to Washington? W: In preparedness? F: Yes. W: I forget that exact medium. F: What I'm trying to establish

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the old Cannon Building; there you had a three-room office. I was fortunate in getting up to the fifth floor. And along one wing, the wing that goes down First Street, was a fellow by the name of Richard Nixon, who came here two years after I did

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, anyhowo I'm sure the Johnson people feel a certain antipathy toward the Nixon people as usurpers, even though they knew for months it was going to happen. R: Yes. Well, when it comes that suddenly-- F: It's just a surrender. R: You are i.n physical

Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
; Nixon/Braniff situation; what it was like to work for LBJ.

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But I think momentum takes you, and I think it is the kind of an operation that men really can't handle too well. ran a good campaign this last time. I watched that. Nixon It was very well run, mechanically and strategically. F: R: Yes, I thought
at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe

Oral history transcript, William Hunter McLean, interview 1 (I), 5/11/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

in Kennedy's race. It occurred in Humphrey's race in '68 here; Nixon carried the county by 2000 votes, and the state went for Humphrey. And He lost the county in '60 by 7500 and the state went for Kennedy. So it's gone pretty steadily

. One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library

Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

that was said, I can't prove that. But some people that told me that I respect yery highly, and I wouldn't doubt their statements a bit. But Jim Murray was sent home, and it was a crucial vote. We lost it by a tie. Nixon broke the tie and voted against us

Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

their language, but they had much to The way to do it is to come to that office with a broad acquaintanceship in the first instance. If you don't have it, the more I think about it, then you shouldn't be President. I don't think Nixon has got a sufficiently

Oral history transcript, Hobart Taylor, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

. 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
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to take himself out, because I didn't think he could be nominated, and I was afraid if he was nominated, he might lose to Nixon, which, I think, would have been a personal disaster for Stevenson. As long as Stevenson didn't take himself out, I felt loyal

departments. I would work with staff members, but at no time if I ever wanted to see the President, was I denied seeing the President. M: That's important. The staff, you don't think, kept you--you know, in Mr. Nixon's time there have been charges

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of arrangement that Nixon now has, in which the staff has almost excluded the cabinet? A: I think they pretty much did, except for certain people. For example Bill Wirtz couldn't get in to see the President--even if he insisted on it, at least very rarely

Oral history transcript, Gale McGee, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the Republican Party. landslided Nixon over JFK. In 1960 the state of Wyoming I remember in 1964 when the Republicans were talking about bringing Nelson Rockefeller out to their state convention some of the Wyoming press editorialized on that and they said

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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