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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
  • See all online interviews with Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
  • 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, 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, 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, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • grew almost out of proportion. He had one of the young black women who was a secretary in the White House with him, and he had Pat Harris, who had been one of the people involved in the election campaign. Anyway, this was a very great occasion
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • politically. H: I frankly don't believe that the President foresaw Community Action developing in the manner in which it developed. Pat Moynihan has pointed out that there were at least three objectives and really quite mutually exclusive for people who
Oral history transcript, George L. Mehren, interview 1 (I), 2/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was covering Congress. As it turned out, the Congress came back, you remember, in 1960, for the "Rump Session," so-called. As the rookie in the office, I was the only one around and I that entire cov~r~d session, Kennedy and Nixon and Johnson
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --there was talk of Pat Brown, there was talk of Hershel Loveless, of Freeman, there was talk of [Governor Frank] Docking from Kansas, I believe it was, and there were so many that had been rumored that they would be Vice President on the Kennedy ticket. out who
Oral history transcript, C. Robert Perrin, interview 2 (II), 3/17/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • and not running for re-election. here: So there were three nominations being held Harding's, mine, and Pat Kennedy as director of the VISTA program. So this was the situation then as Congress took off in August for its vacation. And when they came back
Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • balls. Get me something else." was embarrassed about that. Luci was there, and she was embarrassed because she had young Pat. Mrs. Johnson They weren't married, or maybe they just had been married, but anyway they were kind of embarrassed about
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • of the oldest, then, of the 707s. c: Well, welve only got four. Yes, it is. In fact, that airplane right there was delivered to us on October, 1962, for President Kennedy, and it's still in service right today with President Nixon. The boy that flies
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 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, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , that was at the Speaker ' s personal request. Pnd then the President had respect for Lyndon ' s judgment, and he knew some people the President didn ' t knm·1. Staffing an administration, as Mr. Nixon has found, is very difficult. They talked al most every day
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • upset. The people who make a big play out of this have been Republicans in the Congress. I don't know if President Nixon will have this much trouble or not, but my goodness, we certainly had-F: To a certain extent is this Congressional reluctance
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and a possible future president. F: We're moving ahead. H: Yes. F: But did he ever express himself on Richard Nixon vis-à-vis Johnson? H: You mean as being elected president? F: Yes. H: No, not that I can recall. If he did, it was, "If Dick
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, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Rowland Evans, and author of Lyndon B. Johnson, An Exercise in Power, as well as other books, including one now on the Nixons. To begin with, you were still a fairly junior congressional reporter at the time your book begins. How close on that level were
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Hearst Newspaper Bureau, in May of 1968. So I came into this coverage of the presidency in what was the twilight of it. I covered the campaign, the Humphrey-Nixon campaign, and I covered Mr. Johnson as president during the 1964 presidential campaign
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • .) Mitchell was Secretary of Labor--he favored it, but evidently he was considered a liberal, and Eisenhower's attitude, and even Nixon in those days. We visited Nixon too. We didn't get any too warm a reception or too friendly a feeling or sympathy. From
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • you have any insights into that at all? She is supposed to have gone to the South Vietnamese Embassy to encourage them not to accept a settlement, because if they did not, presumably Nixon would be elected, and they would get a much better deal
  • to the press in the Paris negotiations; information leaks during Paris talks; private talks held in Paris; Madame Anna Chennault; results of the Paris talks after the Nixon administration was in power; writing for The Vantage Point; LBJ in retirement.
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to the Senate in 1957, I was the youngest member. I had no sooner taken the oath admininistered by Nixon, who was then vice president and who ironically is now the president, I had no sooner taken the oath and stepped down and started to walk up the central
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • of it, the very end of it, or better yet, I think it was when Mr. Nixon came in. I told him that, you know, I took all the flak for a lot of these operations when in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 2 (II), 3/7/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But with Martin, there was far less communication on an intellectual level. I love the guy; and there is no question about his integrity--that just sticks out allover him. is, I hope and I really think, a thing of the past. But that situation Even the Nixon
  • ; Pierre Renfret; rumors of recession, 1966-1967; Ford strike, 1967; Ackley's resignation and subsequent ambassadorship to Italy; transition to Nixon Administration; Robert McNamara; balance of payments problem; Charles de Gaulle
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with Nixon because it would help him [Johnson]. F: He'd be in a position when he called the White House that he could go on over and talk about it. G: That's right. F: Did you have any relationship with Sam Rayburn? LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a candidate from the West as a vice president . I think Mr . Johnson was right . I honestly believe, and the facts haven't shown otherwise, that John went back to the Nixon group to become vice president, and then Agnew's financial immorality blew up
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of [approach]? B: Yes, and I think this was an important difference between him and President Nixon . I know, for example, that it's impossible to get through to President Nixon on a foreign policy issue without going through the NSC staff and Mr
Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 2 (II), 12/18/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to be a very serious individual . And this, I think, ties into the sort of Baptist preacher thing . this has cost him terribly in public support . I think And, in passing, I think it's going to be the same with Nixon, although I don't think those two men--I
Oral history transcript, Lawrence H. Fountain, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 In fact they might be as interesting as were the Nixon-Kennedy debates during that campaign because they were really going from meeting to meeting, getting few hours of sleep, debating under pressure, and they went all out
Oral history transcript, Wayne L. Hays, interview 1 (I), 3/11/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • anxious to do anything he wanted. Of course I've always felt that, and I think subsequent events again have proved right, the newspapers did this to him. You know, Nixon has been in now while we're talking nearly two months. According to the press he
Oral history transcript, Don Oberdorfer, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • -­ 22 or December of 1969, for a month . G: Now, Nixon's Vietnamization was taking hold 0: That's right . And by now, of 1968 from Vietnam to in the fall by this time . of 1968--I came back in April the States, and I covered the political
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 3 (III), 9/14/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- III -- 8 leaders mended their ways. Unfortunately, we didn't do it in that way. at least not until the Nixon Administration. G: What about the argument that we hear from some high
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 3 (III), 3/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • activities in the activities in the transition process? P: I had contacts with a number of the Nixon aides on sort of a friendly basis. I knew Bryce Harlow very well. We were both Oklahomans, and Bryce had been helpful during our Administration
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as commander-in-c·hief on the information he had, and I support President Nixon as far as what he's trying to do. I really doubt the wisdom of the day when we cripple the powers of the president to be commander-in-chief of this country. There's something