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Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Shoumatoff, interview 1 (I), 11/3/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • gave them to the White House, last And Mrs. Nixon sent me a very kind letter thanking 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, Crawford Martin, interview 1 (I), 5/4/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Democratic Party; Connally’s appointment as Secretary of Treasury by President Nixon; rise of Republican party in Texas; LBJ’s ability as a communicator and as a politician; LBJ in retirement.
Oral history transcript, Thomas H. (Admiral) Moorer, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.
Oral history transcript, Ralph Moreland, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • in seeing if his predictions came true. Jvlc: Did he make any other pol itical comments at that time? About the Nixon Administration, or his own? M: No, that was the only one that I remember. Mc: Well, let me ask you this: he, not too long before, had
Oral history transcript, Endicott Peabody, interview 1 (I), 3/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 2 (II), 6/5/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . This was drafted by--a guy from Fortune magazine who had some people do the drafting. I remember he had a chap come in, a very nice guy, and this group of Republicans pushed that. I know he was with us on middle-income housing. Dick Nixon might have been with us
Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois (Item)
  • of the 1960 election when Johnson was the running mate for John Kennedy on the Democratic ticket, and the result of that--the Democratic candidate got forty-six thousand, roughly, more votes than the Republican candidate, who was Richard Nixon, and there were
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 27 (XXVII), 12/13/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • proposition. In fact, if we'd have tried it a year earlier it would have worked. Unfortunately, we tried it during a year where it couldn't possibly work, but we didn't know that at the time. And Charlie Murphy, of course, got busy in the transition to Nixon
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . The most Nixon can appoint is something like 2,000 people, I think it is . a copy of the Green Book . I saw So I think Mr . Johnson might have been more successful if he didn't have the war on his neck and could have turned his attention to the bad
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 2 (II), 2/28/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : No. G: Okay. Anything on any of the visitors? I think Vice President Nixon visited one day. V: I remember Bill Rogers coming to see him. G: Anything in particular on that? V: No, just he was very handsome; that's what I noticed. (Laughter) G
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 6 (VI), 5/8/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Any insights? V: I don't know—I just know what I've read about what happened in Illinois. I don't know—I just have no way of knowing what did happen there. Possible. I think Richard Nixon thinks so. But then after the convention was over, I think
Oral history transcript, James E. Webb, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Edward M. Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 10/30/69, by by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 70 per cent of them went to Nixon and correspondingly we lost the state by about 60,000 votes. F: Did the Vice President coordinate his part of the campaign pretty closely with President Kennedy? Or was he given a certain area to carve out
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • recommendations. To my knowledge we never had situations like the problem that Nixon's now having with [John] Knowles between [Robert] Finch and [Everett M.] Dirksen. And if we had any, I'm sure that the President was fully capable of ironing out the situation
Oral history transcript, Jack Albright, interview 1 (I), 12/11/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of conversations; William Gulley’s Breaking Cover; recording in the Cabinet Room; Robert Kennedy interfering with recording; LBJ’s love of gadgetry; getting small tape recorders from Japan for LBJ; removing recording devices from the White House before Nixon came
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John A. Gronouski, interview 3 (III), 2/14/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 5 (V), 10/30/1995, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , 1995 INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 H: Let's see: May 22 [1971], when the Library was dedicated I was here and Nixon was the chief speaker. G: How did LBJ look
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • inner circle; Humphrey's compassion; George Wallace's candidacy in 1968 and its effect on Humphrey; the Jewish vote; 1968 concern over violence and crime in the U.S.; Humphrey's knowledge of Nixon's communication with Anna Chennault; the October 1968
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 4 (IV), 6/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • years, and the Nixon years. So he was a very wise fellow, but he was not about to get down into this street-corner brawling that was involved here. Unfortunately I enjoyed it a little bit at the time. I shouldn't have done it either, I suppose
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • in the Middle East with more sensitivity than anybody in that last two years. He's still there; he's doing the same job for the Nixon Administration. M: There's a whole potpourri of what you might call minor issues that I might just mention to see if you think
Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 4 (IV), 4/24/1981, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, John J. (Lt. Gen.) Davis, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • 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
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, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • their language, but they had much to The way to do it is to come to that office with a broad acquaintanceship in the first instance. If you don't have it, the more I think about it, then you shouldn't be President. I don't think Nixon has got a sufficiently
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, John E. Lyle, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/13/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Timothy May, interview 1 (I), 10/28/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • went in we got aerial photographs of Nixon's visit there. last big name who had been there had been Nixon. The We had aerial photo- graphs so we could determine what kind of a crowd was there by looking down at this aerial photograph. was. You could
Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bruce Palmer, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Esther Peterson, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Anyway, you see what I mean; you balanced it with these And nobody has matched the quality and effectiveness of that commission yet in the women's area. Nobody. Nixon's is just a silly marshmallow compared with it. G: What about Eleanor Roosevelt
Oral history transcript, W. DeVier Pierson, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • right now incidentially, there's a big dog fight on for who gets the trade stick in the Nixon Administration. But Ambassador Roth and the State Depart- ment and the Commerce Department, Labor, Treasury would all have views on a trade issue
Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Will Wilson, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , with the beginning of the Nixon Administration in January of '69. I've been here a year and a hal f. F: Hhen did you first get acquainted with Lyndon Johnson? W: The first time I met him was when I was district attorney in Dallas. F: You weren't active
Oral history transcript, James C. Wright, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • in Amarillo did when it chose to certify a ballot that would list Eisenhower and Nixon as the nominees of the, I think they called it, the Texas Democrats. That, I thought, was a subterfuge and the mis- leading thing to do. I opposed it, unsuccessfully
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the things that is interesting about Lyndon, I very seldom have seen a fellow--but Nixon's a case and Lyndon's a case--who didn't collapse inside when having screwed his courage to the sticking point to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 4 (IV), 6/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 7 (VII), 2/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the President's health and an arrangement whereby if he were disabled, either because of a heart attack or something, then McCormack would step in and take over the duties temporarily, I guess relating to an agreement that Nixon and Eisenhower had worked out. Carl
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 1 (Ic), 12/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --that the Democratic nominee had to be Hubert Humphrey, and the Republican nominee had to be Dick Nixon, simply because they were the only two men that didn't split the party irre­ trievably. Humphrey could hold together both the southern moderates and the northern