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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, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • good writer. He was accused of being lazy. I think that started when he was [Richard] Nixon's vice-presidential choice, and apparently he didn't open as many supermarkets as they thought he ought to have. He might have been lazy in doing stupid things
  • ; Jacobson's opinion of LBJ's visit to Vietnam in 1966; Jacobson's work with Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS); military organization in Vietnam; the Vietnam War during Richard Nixon's and Gerald Ford's administrations; evacuating
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • later put itlr:aifferent words on this program. He said, 11 I 've gotten to the stage with the Congress where they won't do anything for me. I don't care who the next president is, whether his name is Gene McCarthy or Richard Nixon or Bobby Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Edward R. Fried, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , it was fine with us. But we should not be pushing them in one direction or the other, and I think this was pretty consistently the U.S. policy under President Johnson, and I'm fairly confident that it will be exactly the same under President Nixon