Solr Search · Discover Production

Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on that bill. I well recall that Pat McNamara, whom I later succeeded in the Senate, was one of the conferees at the time. Then, I also remember flying out to Ann Arbor as a congressman on the president's plane after Mr. Johnson became president. He
LBJ as Senate Majority Leader in 1959 when the Landrum-Griffin Act passed; JFK as floor manager; May 1966 Pat McNamara died and Griffin succeeded him in the Senate; Michigan delegation opposing LBJ as VP because he wasn’t strong on labor or civil

Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on the plane and were flying back there. Senator Pat McNamara flew back, and Kenny O'Donnell; there were the four of us in the back of the plane. The President just sort of dismissed those compliments as being sort of perfunctory. There wasn't really any

of OEO's most serious problems was that aggressive program people, particularly the top people like Bennetta Washington of the Women's Job Corps Program, and Pat Ferguson, VISTA, all had their own little Hill constituencies. Ted Berry of Community Action

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

much worried about Johnson when Humphrey was running against Nixon. pretty late. I felt that Johnson was sitting on the fence until I have no concrete proof of this. But, knowing that [Governor] Connally was talking for and reputed to be raising
programs; Parten’s opinion Nixon; future problems with Congress under Nixon; the energy problem.

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

along. is this: I think the reason he did in spite of the relations between him and [Richard] Nixon as of present [after the election of 1968], he shared the intense dislike of Nixon that Truman and Rayburn had, and the thought of Nixon as President
of his staff; Great Society programs; JFK didn’t believe in domino theory; Bay of Pigs; Tom White; Richard Nixon.

Oral history transcript, Ed Gossett, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in. Iv!: Yes. G: And I voted for Hr. Johnson. I voted for him I think in all of his races, except I didn't vote for him in 1960. I supported the Nixon team in 1960. M: Johnson finally made it, of course, in 1948, and left the House. Did you have

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, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Yes, the lack of power and the lack of action. We always hear about the "new era" when Eisenhower gave Nixon more responsibility and more authority, and the same was supposedly true that Kennedy was to have added onto Johnson's responsibility from

Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

be an advantage no matter how long it lasted. Well, the initial arrangement was that I would be here for six months. And then that was extended for two years see, I'm still here. And as you can The transition people for Mr. Nixon called me up the other day

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 5 (V), 7/12/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Discover Our Collections