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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
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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