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Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 1 (I), 9/28/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • it happen with Hum?hrey, although the relationship, as I viewed it, was different betwe2n Johnson and Humphrey than it was between Kennedy and Johnson --and I take it between Nixon and Agnew as I read the newspapers. You never know until you're inside
Oral history transcript, William S. White, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that I, for example, had supported it under Kennedy. I supported Eisenhower's part of it. I support it now, by the way, under Nixon. Therefore there was an undoubted effort generally to discredit in journalism those of us who stood up for this war. I know
Oral history transcript, J.J. Jake Pickle, interview 6 (VI), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • States since Mr. Nixon has been in. I doubt that very few people on the Hill have ever gotten a call from the Presid ent [Nixon]. He just doesn' t do it. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • ; she became the assistant secretary until Nixon came in. K: Was it within your purview to make prescriptive recommendations as to what was desirable [or] what wasn't, if you saw--? G: Oh yes, of course. K: Did you convey these to Gardner, or back
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 31 (XXXI), 3/29/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] Nixon presiding over the Senate. Well, as far as my life goes, I didn't see an awful lot of Lyndon that fall and after the flood was over, the drought took up again. Oh, we had several years of a wretched drought. The ground cracked open. And sometime
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was, in the Capitol at first. Then a few months later I went over to the Senate Office Building to a conference room, maybe the Democratic Policy conference room. I don't know what they called it, but it was right below Vice President Nixon's office. One of the things
Oral history transcript, Birch Bayh, interview 1 (I), 2/12/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • didn't have to get that to win in a three-way race. M: You also had a pretty hard reelection campaign, and Nixon carried Indiana. Can you make an assessment of Mr. Johnson's--his Administration's--effect on the Democratic party in Indiana? Has it been
Oral history transcript, Joseph D. Keenan, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • that was said, I can't prove that. But some people that told me that I respect yery highly, and I wouldn't doubt their statements a bit. But Jim Murray was sent home, and it was a crucial vote. We lost it by a tie. Nixon broke the tie and voted against us
Oral history transcript, Dan H. Fenn, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/18/1972, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • formalized it, but he did some things with computers and things whiCh we hadn't done. project out of it. And then, Nixon has made a big So I went down specifically to do that, set up that operation. M: And you were domiciled in the White House
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 21 Mc: Now did you try to explain all of this to the incoming Nixon Administration? T: Yes. Mc: Did they understand what you were talking about? T: The man they selected--Floyd Hyde, former Hayor of Fresno, had been
  • participation; communication between citizens and city people; helping cities of all sizes in all regions; funding Washington D.C.; the Eccho Neighborhood Cooperation Model in Columbus. OH; Model Cities Supplementary money; transition to Nixon Administration
Oral history transcript, Maxwell D. Taylor, interview 1b (I), 2/10/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that in the review of foreign policy which I am sure Mr. Nixon's Administration intends to make that we would look SEATO over and decide whether we need that particular coalition. present form. I doubt it in its Or whether it would be possible and desirable to put
Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • the Eisenhower Administration, there were any number of involvements of the White House in critical wage negotiations. Vice President Nixon, for example, was heavily involved in the steel wage settlement of early 1960. But I think there was a degree
Oral history transcript, Houston Harte, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by Paul Bolton (Item)
  • over many problems. They arose when the naval base was located in Corpus Christi and when he told Grady Kinsolving, who was at that time the publisher of the Corpus Christi Caller and Times, and r1aston Nixon, who was a great civic 1eader in the area
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, Otis Arnold Singletary, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with high hopes, good press, made some very noticeable impact; and yet, in public esteem, in congressional esteem, kind of dropped off. And still, at the time when the Nixon Administration came in, in a sense with a mandate to discontinue it, LBJ
Oral history transcript, David E. Lilienthal, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of weeks later to President Nixon, and the timing is good. It wouldn't have been if I'd listened to my own counsel instead of his on the timing. B: Had you before that time formed a personal opinion about the Vietnam War? L: About the war itself. we
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, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)
  • to win an election against tough odds--Richard Nixon, who was a smart clever man. I came to appreciate both his leadership style and even the content of what he was doing. I thought, in later years, that once elected, he made a series of mistakes
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 20 (XX), 4/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had and that's when I tried to be a spokesman and go on the attack against the administration of Nixon. Now, that's an understandable role. You can dig your teeth into it and have some degree of effectiveness. But now you have a Democratic president
Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 2 (II), 3/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and Nicolae Ceausescu; San Antonio formula; Anna Chennault; Nixon people’s conviction that LBJ Administration hurt U.S. relations with the South Vietnamese; junior members not in total sympathy with its Department.
Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • effect in Saigon, and I knew that she was representing herself to Bui Diem as speaking for Nixon. In fact I was told that Agnew in some eccentric way or another got into the act, but I was told this in very great confidence and on the basis
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 1 (I), 8/25/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • they needed their own bank, so I helped write and defend that legislation. F: Do you think this need for a bank for Latin America came out of sort of a nationalistic pride, or do you think--? B: Yes. If you'll remember, Mr. Nixon had certain problems
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • lost Alaska. The weekend· before the election, the Sunday before election on Tuesday, the Nixons came to Anchorage. It took three days to be sure of the vote in Al aska, a·nd many of us fel t that that trip was what turned that trick. Many people
  • passed; Alaska's vote for Nixon in 1960; Vietnam War
Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bore down on the Commission. I don't know that Nixon did. I don't think Ike ever did, to the best of my knowledge. I was very close to Washington in the period of the latter years of Roosevelt certainly all the way up through the Nixon Administration
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXII -- 22 funding to get planning grants. We were really at the planning grant stage when [Richard] Nixon was elected
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for International Organization Affairs, and then inl965 \ made assistant secretary, where you finished out that administration. S: That is correct. M: Of course, you have been in NEA [Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs] since then with the Nixon
Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • accepted it and I said, "All right. I'll take the Interstate Commerce Commission job,"--which I did, parenthetically, and stayed the seven years. And then at the end of that time Nixon was president, and he reappointed me and I served on until I was seventy
Oral history transcript, Carl B. Albert, interview 3 (III), 7/9/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 1964 legislation; Civil Rights bill; Immigration Bill; Elemenary and Secondary Education Bill; Rent Supplement Bill; Teacher Corps program; tax surcharge; Joe Fowler; Congressman Mills; Nixon
Oral history transcript, Donnelly Bolton, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, John Chancellor, interview 1 (I), 4/25/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • the President was in the campaign of 1960. But in 1960 I traveled mainly with Nixon and with Kennedy, so that the answer to your question is that I really had hardly set eyes on the man until early in 1965 when NBC assigned me to the White House as its White
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 8 (VIII), 10/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G.O.P.; [he was] called that throughout the nation at the time. And of course Eisenhower came in at the last to be with them, with the help of Nixon double-crossing Earl Warren. know whether you're familiar with that one or not. I don't But, anyhow
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 2 (II), 8/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , President Kennedy, President Johnson, President Nixon-- all want to try to change, and they can't get it done. F: Thank you. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org \ ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, India Edwards, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Michael A. Geissinger, interview 1 (I), 12/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • been there since Truman's adminis- He had come there as a navy chief; worked under Truman, Eisen- hower, Kennedy and Johnson, and continued to work under Nixon up until, I think, just after Ford took over or just before Ford took over. Jack
Oral history transcript, Eugene B. Germany, interview 1 (I), 5/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert Taft, Jr., interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was fairly new still, and as we're finding out, I think, in the Nixon Administration, the liaison between Congress and the White LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
Oral history transcript, Raymond L. Telles, Jr., interview 1 (I), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • wash him, and then I'd shave him, and then I'd spank him," and everybody was whooping and hollering. It was a terrific performance, and he was relatively effective, I think. Tennessee finally, over the religious issue, did go for Nixon, but I think
Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 3 (III), 12/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of my knowledge. I notice Nixon is now fiddling with it a little bit, but I can't remember that the President ever seriously concentrated on this one. I think he was too experienced from the Roosevelt and Truman experience to even--despite the change