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  • 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
  • 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
  • : In a sense you were girding for 1956, in case Richard Nixon should be the president before 1956? M: Well, that at least was the speculation. So we went to Texas. Governor Stevenson gave a lecture at the University of Texas. Then we got in the car
  • , Notre Dame, Indiana, and I assume for purposes of this particular memoir I've been a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights since its inception in 1957. I've been chairman for the last year and a half, but that was a President Nixon appointment
  • of the provisions that we were much opposed to. Vice President Nixon at that time cast the deciding vote, and he cast it against us. But Johnson, who was Majority Leader at the time, was very much with us on that particular episode. MU: He was voting your way
  • hard to We in this agency, like the term that President Nixon recently used in saying sufficiency. That's rather vague but deliberately so, because to try to decide what level of forces would be enough for each side to have an assured destruction
  • Division of ACDA; General Wheeler; President Nixon; ICBM; arms control proposal; LBJ's interest in arms control
  • evidence that Johnson did in fact sit on his hands or even encourage the Nixon candidacy over the Humphrey candidacy? H: I have no evidence of that at all. F: In general, you've got a long distinguished career as a newsman, how would you, try to project