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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh O'Brien -- Interview XXV -- 17 Pat Brown expressed an interest in this area. Freeman says it is a problem of coordination and Hughes is assigned the task of getting Pat Brown into action. We talk about blitzing Nixon
Caucasian vote; how Humphrey compared to Richard Nixon and George Wallace on order and justice; campaign staff debate over whether Humphrey should release a clear Vietnam strategy and whether Humphrey should resign as vice president; concern that policy

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 87, May 2006," LBJ Library (Item)

this wonderful picture, a few minutes before the light changed. Photo by Charles Bogel 18 Notes on Nixon: An Evening with Alexander Butterfield After a twenty-year career in the Air Force, as a fighter pilot with the Sky Blazers, the aero batic team

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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, 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, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: GOVERNOR PAT BROWN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ DATE: F: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown

Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and Nixon was elected vice president. He was senator and was completing his first two years of a six-year term, and [Earl] Warren appointed Tom Kuchel in December of 1952 for two years. That's our law. He could only appoint until the next general election
to state controller and U.S. senator; Small's work as departmental secretary in the California governor's office; Kuchel's involvement with the Davis-Bacon Act; Richard Nixon's personality; the relationship between Kuchel, Nixon and William Knowland

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to California, attended the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford Law School in the forties. 0: Right. B: Law practice in San Mateo, active in politics in California. You had important positions in the Stevenson campaign there in '56 and in Pat
Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative

Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Governor, the big interest of course in '62 was your campaign against Richard Nixon, and the feeling that Richard Nixon was using California as a testing ground for a comeback for the Presidency . I wondered if you would talk a little bit about the issue
See all online interviews with Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in 1943 in the riot of World War II, which was incidentally much more of a race riot than the riot of 1967, which was what Pat Moynihan would call an untermenschen riot--a real explosion of the ghetto against the ghetto with whites almost a secondary
/31 announcement; HHH’s attempt to go both ways on Vietnam; LBJ’s opinion of Nixon; transition period; Pat Moynihan; LBJ angered by some cabinet members at the end of his term; feelings about leaving the administration.

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 24, 1 January 1982," LBJ Library (Item)

Nixon borrowed from Roosevelt's experience with price controls. Rccemly, a former Nixon cabinet officer told me that he was often struck at cabinet meetings by the way that Nixon tried to copy FDR's style. When Jimmy arler launched his Presidential cam

Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

it in to me." Well, I did know, and some of what I knew about Stu shouldn't have been written. I knew lots. So I sat down and I patted my typewriter, and I said, "Write, honey." home at night. I sat down and wrote that at And I wrote it and I wrote

Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

be not But again I could say that about Jack Kennedy or -F: That's just par for the course. C: Nixon and everybody else. Nixon, I remember when he was placed on the old Un-American Activities Committee. As a matter of fact, I told him since he's been

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was anticipating that Hubert Humphrey was going to foul up his Vietnam negotiations, and he said to me directly, "I do not want you to work in the Humphrey campaign." And I told him how wrong I felt that was, that any lack of helping Hubert meant helping Nixon

Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Newman -- I -- 7 And you've got to remember one thing. This is true now and has been true in this whole controversy with Nixon's papers. The moment a man becomes
on donations; 1969 tax law; physical move of material to Austin; typical appraisal workday; comparison of working conditions on LBJ and Nixon papers; controversial Nixon deed of gift; President Eisenhower memorandum; personal association with LBJ; Pentagon

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

they didn't like, and many, many other things. I'd gone through a process of opening up the campus so anybody could speak, including communists, which had caused major problems in the state. Nixon, who was running for governor, had attacked the univer- sity
in Indonesia; heading up Carnegie Commission on Higher Education; impression of Alice Rivlin’s work; Edith Green’s higher education bill; carry-over into Nixon Administration; bloc grant issue; Kerr as chairman of the National Committee for Political Settlement

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

I knew about it before he died, but somebody told me that Nixon said as he got up to leave, he had adjourned the session, he almost fainted. Rayburn reached over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Dick, we're going to miss you around here

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, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Richard Nixon, and the candidates, the three that I recall, who were in contention early in the year were all senatorial candidates. One was John F. Kennedy, the other LBJ, and the third of course was Hubert Humphrey. Now later, as we all know

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 29 (XXIX), 11/3/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

efforts; literally started a campaign for the post. I was able to persuade Pat Harris to accept the role of chairman if she were elected. She accepted with considerable reluctance. She recognized that this would be very controversial. She was not enamored
reforms; McGovern's 1972 campaign financing; O'Brien's efforts to attack Richard Nixon; the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) scandal; how O'Brien became chairman of the 1972 Democratic National Convention; Daley's reaction to his

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 53, 1 July 1992," LBJ Library (Item)

Archivist for Presidential Libraries; Verne Newton, Roosevelt Library; Clarence Lyons, Nixon Project, Chuck Daly, Kennedy Library; Pat Borders, National Archives; Mar tin Elzy, As.sistantDirector, Carter Library. Seated: Dan Holt, Eisenhower Library; Harry

Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of activity, not like apparently President Nixon does, going alone in a room with a pad of yellow paper and thinking something through. J: Yes, he liked to be around people, particularly people that he had developed a trust or a feeling of rapport

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 41 (XLI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

' Red Cross. B ut early in the year of 1949 when Lyndon was first sworn in as a senator, right on up through this whole year of 1960, I was a devoted, interested member. M rs. [Pat] Nixon, the wife of the Vice President, was the presiding officer
; Pat Nixon; Marvin Watson; visiting Acapulco and Mexican President Miguel Aleman and his family; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Sam Houston Johnson's hospitalization for alcoholism; a Johnson family history of alcoholism and depression

Oral history transcript, Jack Howard, interview 1 (I), 10/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that last year. G: Did you participate in the War on H: Well, actually, Pat Moynihan was the departmental representative for the top level stuff. Pov~rty task force in 1964? I was at the working level, so that I got into the various meetings that we'd

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 4, 3 January 1975," LBJ Library (Item)

, along w1th one on the Nixon Administration, ·were present~d at the symposium to a fonn,idable array of econormsts-a panel of former Presidential economic advisors. Among those present were John Dunlop, Roger Blough, Leon Keyserling, Don Paarlberg, James

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 60, 1 June 1995," LBJ Library (Item)

President Clinton never men tions are ""Lyndon Johnson""----cven ··1ast year when he rattled off the names of other presidents besides himself who had tried to reform America's [healthl system. he cited Harry Truman, John Kennedy. and Richard Nixon. I

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 66, 15 August 1997," LBJ Library (Item)

consisting of Harry Middleton, Elspeth Rostow, and George Christian (right) about her memoir, Personal History. Among her observations: • She does not know who ''Deep Throat" of Watergate fame is. • The Nixon administration was the most dangerous in her

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 6 (VI), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, 1983 INTERVIEWEE: ARTHUR KRIM INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Krim's residence, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Mr. Krim, let's today discuss that period after the 1968 election but before the Nixon inauguration. K: All right
LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing; sale

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- III -- 3 So Taft and Lyndon--you see, they [the Republican and Democrats in the Senate] were 47 and 47, but Taft was just defeated by one vote, because Nixon

Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

of the original ones. We thought we had coordinated that more with the rest of the institutes, but when Benno Schmidt--I can't remember whose administration it was-was very active--I think it was in the Kennedy Administration, I'm not sure. No, it was in Nixon's

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 4 (IV), 3/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

-in-law's. David Acheson, Pat Acheson. And Clifford came. He said, "Old boy, we've done right well so far." He said, "We've got another one to do now." So we went off into a corner and talked for an hour about Paris. I went back to the White House about nine

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, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to stop Kennedy, and Kampleman and Herb Waters and that oil fellow, Pat O'Connor, and a number of others--all anti-ADA. So the Humphrey camp was not one camp but two, and quite bitter and unpleasant. It wasn't a very happy time. M: Even in 1959? R

Oral history transcript, Eric Tolmach, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

, something like that. Pat Moynihan had a large hand in developing that report, which showed certain correlations between the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Bart McDowell, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

campaign, I think, at Santa Barbara. G: Was that Nixon? Me: No, with Dawes. G: With whom? Me: Charlie Dawes. F: With Mc: The first Vice President he ever saw. G: Oh, Charles Dawes. Mc: This was 1924, I think he said. ~ vice president

Oral history transcript, Joe B. Frantz, interview 2 (II), 09/10/1972, by David G. McComb (Item)

in the past fairly usual for presidents to continue at the head with Schlesinger, Sr., regardless of party affiliation. But by this time Nixon was in, and I feel sure, I know that the Historical Commission people recommended that I be reappointed. Holmes told
How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his

Oral history transcript, Dudley T. Dougherty, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

--he's dead--and he said, "Dudley, why don't you consider running against Lyndon Johnson? The country needs leadership desperately. win. II He didn't say I could But I had a letter or so, and I got a telephone call from my cousin Pat Tenant

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

organization leaders who are with us was stand pat, don't rock the boat and don't succumb to any Humphrey blandishments." Then I had a series of recommendations. The fact of the matter is that I was far from sanguine about what was going to happen in New York
Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/McCarthy

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 9, 6 September 1976," LBJ Library (Item)

of the LBJ Library. THE COVER of this issue features sketches by Muse um Technician Pat Partridge (right). The sketches il lustrate activities of the Library, and are taken from photographs that appear in this issue and the enclosed report. A graduate

Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 4 (IV), 1/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Helen Thomas, interview 1 (I), 4/19/1977, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in the 1960 campaign. F: Did you do that swing through the South with the Johnsons? T: No, I didn't. Like "What did Richard Nixon ever do for Culpepper?" No, I missed that one. 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY

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