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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, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Johnson, the step was made, and a black ambassador was sent up there, and really sent up there and was told that that was going to be. his name. Others on the list Frank Williams was not related to that, Pat Harris was one; I believe Hugh Smythe
Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to be the deputy mayor. I want a city manager for that job." Horace Busby then called Pat Healy of the National League of Cities, John Guenther, U.S. Conference of Mayors; Mark Keane, the executive director of the International City Managers Association; and Mr
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, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • understood this was an independent commission that was bipartisan in nature. And that there were five commissioners, and that only three could be of one political party. It was something that Nixon has never understood, but Johnson did. He thought
Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 2 (II), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • cross section of that. I think we provided a vehicle for people to talk out their problems. We did not provide a vehicle for Pat JvIoynihan, and that's what most of the press criticism related t o , Pat having many, many press contacts. The point
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, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the second most powerful man in the nation when Eisenhower was President. He recognized that he could not be that powerful if Kennedy won the election. Now, you might say, "Well, Nixon would have won and then he'd still be Majority Leader." exactly what
Oral history transcript, William M. (Fishbait) Miller, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Kennedy, Mr . Nixon, and Mr . Albert all in one little huddle . They were the only � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Jack Brooks, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (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, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • along. is this: I think the reason he did in spite of the relations between him and [Richard] Nixon as of present [after the election of 1968], he shared the intense dislike of Nixon that Truman and Rayburn had, and the thought of Nixon as President
  • of his staff; Great Society programs; JFK didn’t believe in domino theory; Bay of Pigs; Tom White; Richard Nixon.
Oral history transcript, Patrick V. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to fill only about 200 of those 1,000 vacancies. And if they had been on the schedule we had planned, they would by this time have filled about 700 of the vacancies. B: Then Mr. Nixon's recent request for an increase was an additional thousand men over
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Beirne, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Johnson's effectiveness as Vice President 15,16 Days immediately following Kennedy assassination 17,19,20,21,22 Sec . Willard Wirtz 18,19 Mr . Meany 22 OEO 23,24 Everett Dirksen 25,26 President Johnson's major accomplishments 27 Nixon
  • as Vice President; JFK assassination; Secretary Willard Wirtz; George Meany; OEO; Everett Dirksen; LBJ's major accomplishments; Nixon; Humphrey; George Wallace
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Curry--I--5 here after Nixon had had one. One of the reasons I remember
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , anyhowo I'm sure the Johnson people feel a certain antipathy toward the Nixon people as usurpers, even though they knew for months it was going to happen. R: Yes. Well, when it comes that suddenly-- F: It's just a surrender. R: You are i.n physical
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
  • ; Nixon/Braniff situation; what it was like to work for LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Richard Nixon. Df·i: That is true. F: When did you first get to know Johnson? OM: I actually met Mrs. Johnson a considerable time before I did the President. He were schoolmates at the University of Texas together and in the journalism school
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • moving and he shouted out as he departed, "What has Dick Nixon ever done for Culpepper?1t You remember that, I guess you've had that from a lot of sources. That actually happened. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , including the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Without Agriculture, went to see LBJ for one last effort . explaining why at all he simply said, "No . This is up to whoever wins the election--Humphrey or Nixon . I'm not going to act ." They wrote
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. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Waldron -- II -- 27 or Mr. Nixon, do that," and then you just stopped and thought. "Well, if you knew really what they knew you might have done the same thing." G: I was just wondering if in retirement he expressed any
Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know that he leaned over backwards to be fair to Nixon and Wallace and not to give Humphrey advantages because of being vice president, simply because he himself had pledged he would not devote an hour. But when there was national security information
Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- I -- 12 meant I spent about eight weeks with Richard Nixon and about eight weeks with John Kennedy, and got to know both of them in a reporter/source
Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • really pertinent here, but I'm curious about : you were in Caracas after the famous spitting incident on Senator Nixon or Vice President Nixon? B: I accompanied him . F: Oh, you were along . B: Dick Rubottom, a Texan, and I accompanied him
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was quite different from theirs, so I never had any hesitations about staying on. professional. I've always regarded myself as a I would have stayed on for the Nixon Administration if they had chosen to regard me as a professional instead of a Johnson
  • ; problems regarding Komer’s ambassadorship; losing his job when Nixon became President; LBJ’s visit with Indira Ghandi; how Komer met LBJ and discussed the Pakistan-India issue; White House visits from foreign dignitaries; sending wheat to India; comparing
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • an assumption, not that it functioned under, but that this program--it really started with Mr. Nixon as Vice President, when the Equal Employment-B: Your immediate ancestor was the President's committee which was headed by the Vice President-- LBJ
Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the country as a scapegoat or something like that, of course. But I think by and large the demonstrations have not been of a nature that would alarm anybody. M: There 2ave been incidences, several of Nixon's-- R: Well, Caracas yes. M: Eisenhower
Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Yes, that's true. I know all those horror stories from the Nixon-Lodge campaign, but, well, I think the press did very much respect the job he was doing in Vietnam--trying to do. They respected certainly his patriotic motivation in being
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to carry Texas for Humphrey. thought we had a pretty good shot at it. I'd always When we started it was so bad I wanted to be sure we weren't embarrassed and humiliated. After that I began to think as we moved, Nixon was, I thought, freezing; he began
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Nixon reappointed me. B: Congratulations. H: I mean, it's uncanny that I'd be talking to you when I'm to continue as vice chairman for a five year appointment. surprise. B: That's excellent. It kind of came as a LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 My first exposure to Richard Nixon was in connection with the Commission's reporting of cases where loyalty and security conditions had resulted
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Development to be on the staff of their research group, which was then headed by Herbert Stein, who is now a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Nixon Administration. M: I'm not too familiar with this Committee for Economic Development. What