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Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
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, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • commentator, debating with another man last night about eight o'clock, I believe it was. One man was debating in favor of Nixon and the other one came along and he came on strong telling them about McGovern. He said, "Thi,s is what you say about McGovern
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • !" He was amused, and from then on it became the Quadriad. But just to show you how history goes, about a year ago I read a little item in the paper saying "President Nixon called a meeting of the Quadriad which was formed and named during
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • used to think maybe he was a Russian spy. But I do know that he knew his master was President of the United States! And he may have gone to Nixon; I don't know. I have the feeling that he was going to stay with power. Anyway, Yuki came in our house
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Johnson Administration. In fact, I don't think the Nixon people have shipped them very much military aid. It has mostly been only spare parts, etc. I don't recall when that decision was made--rnaybe under Johnson, maybe under Nixon--but all this to-do
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me. G: What about his relations with Vice President [Richard] Nixon? Did he seem to get along well with Nixon? H: I think he got along with him. I don't ever remember Nixon coming in the office. I remember seeing Nixon going up and down
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 7 whip. The most spectacular election, probably, was an ugly one, in which Richard Nixon defeated our old friend, Helen Gahagan Douglas. That was when
  • throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt --9 vice-presidency and said he did it because he didn't like what Nixon did to Helen, he said, "Now Helen was an emotional girl, and she often said and did things that I didn't approve
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • auditorium. the auditorium was filled. Had a program there and The police chief gave us a crowd estimate of 175,000, which I think was ballooned, but the big and important thing about that was Nixon had been there the day before, and that was what really
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at that time, I had met him, but I can't say that I knew him. This was 1962? There was a presidential election in 1960 with Kennedy and Nixon. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
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, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Vice President Nixon. In this instance I think that there were times when the relationship was less close than it was at other times, but as the campaign came on, or as it neared, I was sure in my own mind that the President was going to decide to have
Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this in private or whether he told us this in that room; I think it might have been a private conversation--he said that he had a session with Ron Ziegler, who was the incoming press secretary to Richard Nixon. And Ziegler asked him if he had any advice, in being
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • back quite far enough. Just yesterday when I was driving across Memorial Bridge and all the flags were out, the D.C. flag, the American flag, and some other flag I didn't recognize, I thought, "Nixon has a State visitor. Why don't I know who
Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)
  • would be running against Richard Nixon had some influence with Rayburn as well? B: Oh, no question about that. Mr. Rayburn was very bitter on Richard Nixon, and as subsequent events proved, he had a right to be. G: But did Rayburn say, for example
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • out of the President when Connally joined Nixon's cabinet? C: No, I never talked to him at all about that. F: On the cabinet, did you have any particular vantage point on the McNamara resignation as Secretary of Defense and becoming the president
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • informed myself, I might have made a bigger dent on it. But he realized that he'd have to hand it to somebody, and it would be just one more thing he'd have to do something about. Of course, he could have done exactly what Nixon did. G: Perhaps Nixon
Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was presiding, and then you had the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and NASA and a few other outside people. Well, when Nixon was presi- dent he abolished this council by a reorganization plan
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, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • passed his Jury Trial Amendment. I remember the You see, what Johnson was doing was passing both amendments; then he had to deal with Russell and avoid a filibuster. I saw then Vice President Nixon and then Attorney General Bill
Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • situation from a journalistic standpoint, because you have a political conflict built in there. Therefore the legislature--in that case and it's going to be true with the Nixon Administration--you have legislative leaders that the President of the other
Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • be about right. M: Do you have close knowledge of the role that Mr. Johnson may have played in the Eisenhower years in the realm of foreign policy? Mundt: Yes, as I said earlier, he fairly consistently supported the Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign
  • First meeting LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; 1948 Mundt-Nixon proposal; Joe McCarthy; USIA; Smith-Mundt Act of 1948; Arthur Larson; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign policy; Quemay-Matsu-Pescadores problem; Russia détente
Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • : Yes, the lack of power and the lack of action. We always hear about the "new era" when Eisenhower gave Nixon more responsibility and more authority, and the same was supposedly true that Kennedy was to have added onto Johnson's responsibility from
Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • feasible thing: to untie the loans of the United States to Latin America, something that President Nixon did about a year ago. President Johnson wanted to do that, but apparently he couldn't get the authority from, or the approval of, the key members
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • another way the answer would be different. And that is, did the same group support Nixon. Many of them did after he became president. There was a kind of standing job between President Johnson and myself because there were occasions where I would have
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 22 (XXII), 1/8/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because he was representing the United States. It was because somebody hated Lyndon Johnson. He was always citing what happened to [Richard] Nixon down in Caracas, you know, when the eggs were thrown and all that kind of thing. Of course, Nixon wasn't
Oral history transcript, George Silver, interview 1 (I), 2/15/1991, by Molly Malone Chesney (Item)
  • on the one hand made his own decision about child health grants and [Congressman Harley O.] Staggers, on the other hand, made his decisions about public health grants. So they weren't combined until Nixon's administration. See, up until--Nixon was the one who
Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Democrats and Republicans have made those distinctions very sharply, because I know that in the Nixon Administration the Civil Rights Division put out papers discussing exactly what the difference was between goals and quotas, and they made it very clear
Oral history transcript, Matthew B. Coffey, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • be an advantage no matter how long it lasted. Well, the initial arrangement was that I would be here for six months. And then that was extended for two years see, I'm still here. And as you can The transition people for Mr. Nixon called me up the other day
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "Yes, sir, but I've been about my Vice President's business," and he grinned and didn't say a word ! So we went on out to dinner and oddly enough Nixon was in Chasen's! So he was just about getting ready to leave, so we circled the block--the Vice
Oral history transcript, Stewart L. Udall, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • suspect the Nixon Administration discontinued it because the emphasis was heavily on education and work training rather than, as with the CCC's, on the actual doing of large scale conservation projects. F: Within your purview how did these ghetto boys