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- November 20, 2008
Reference No. 13909
Processing Note
A: represents President Johnson; B: represents Richard Nixon.
Transcript only of this conversation; there is no recording.
A copy of this transcript was interfiled on this date from the Alpha
- LBJ DISCUSSES HIS UPCOMING STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE AND STATEMENT HE WANTS NIXON TO ISSUE IN SUPPORT OF LBJ'S REMARKS IN THE MESSAGE ON THE SURTAX
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
- Telephone conversation # 13909, transcript, LBJ and RICHARD NIXON, 1/10/1969, 5:11 PM
- RICHARD NIXON
- member of the JCS behind this plan now. We will lose
two men on the JCS next spring -- Wheeler and McConnell.
If we wait for Nixon they will put off those matters they can put off.
It could be a year before a Nixon team is ready to do this.
If we get
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with Rockefeller, and Nixon. and McCarthy, and Kennedy
and Reagan if you wanted him, but put enough of your fellows
on it to control it••• a committee made up of political leaders
throughout the country to advise me and analyze and review
the entire Asian situation
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Nixon turned loose on them? ·
President Nixon did more damage to the North Vietnamese than we would have
LBJ Presidential Library
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
More on LBJ
- the Vietnam War changed under Richard Nixon's leadership; fear of Chinese and Soviet involvement in Vietnam; comparing LBJ's and Bill Clinton's sources of information; the relationships between presidents and former presidents; LBJ's great capacity for taking
- Hainoi and Haiphong about six months of last year. He
(Senator Fulbright) doesn't seem to give us credit for that.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, Nixon has taken note of it. He has
accused us of gradualism and stated that we would have ended
the war sooner had
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in 1936 and on the farm question, even in the middle
of the campaign; He sent for the people • : .
P:
Oh, we do that all the time.' · I went to Eisenhower the other
day across the country.
We will be fully briefing Nixon
and the others from
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recommended Rusk and McNamara to Kennedy. McKelway said he
asked Lovett who he voted for and Lovett replied "I voted for Nixon,
but it was to keep Schlesinger out of Washington. 11 McKelway also
told the President that the last time he
- IDA?
Secretary Rusk:
We will get that tomorrow.
Hickenlooper is sour on Nixon telling them what to do.
would get credit for the NPT if we got it signed.
Humphrey
PARIS TALKS
Secretary Rusk: Averell and I have talked. Attacks on cities, willingness
- to speech; Lady Bird receives standing ovation; Lyn becomes rambunctious; Diplomatic Corps, Supreme Court & Cabinet arrive; LBJ receives standing ovation; in speech, LBJ asks Congress to help Richard Nixon; to Speaker's office; watch reviews & buffet