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Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Frank Oltorf, interview 1 (I), 8/3/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jerome P. Cavanagh, interview 1 (I), 3/22/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on the plane and were flying back there. Senator Pat McNamara flew back, and Kenny O'Donnell; there were the four of us in the back of the plane. The President just sort of dismissed those compliments as being sort of perfunctory. There wasn't really any
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, One More Story (group interview), 11/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be better if he didn't come out, get involved in the political race and endorse Daddy. During the campaign it was reported that Dr. Graham's daughter was at a Nixon rally, so Daddy called up [Dr. GrahamJ. LN: Goldwater. LR: I beg your pardon
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1970, by Arthur J. Mayer (Item)
  • of the oldest, then, of the 707s. c: Well, welve only got four. Yes, it is. In fact, that airplane right there was delivered to us on October, 1962, for President Kennedy, and it's still in service right today with President Nixon. The boy that flies
Oral history transcript, Richard J. Hughes and Betty (Elizabeth) Hughes, interview 1 (I), 8/6/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 4 (IV), 6/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • with his personal r e lations with them. F: obo dy that h e k i n d of d e v eloped an instant a n ti pat hy towa r d, o r vi ce versa ? C: Oh, h e a nd Pr ime Min i s te r Pearson of Canad a rea l ly d idn' t ge t along too well. I think t he re
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of OEO's most serious problems was that aggressive program people, particularly the top people like Bennetta Washington of the Women's Job Corps Program, and Pat Ferguson, VISTA, all had their own little Hill constituencies. Ted Berry of Community Action
Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . The War on Poverty was designed to take a person who is dependent and turn him into an independent person by health, by education, by training, by discipline, by community action, et cetera, anything we could think of. Yet when Nixon came into office one
Oral history transcript, Adrian S. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of say, "Well, we expect you to say that," you know. But you know--while the "New Left" calls the New York Times and the Post the Establishment press, Spiro T. Agnew doesn't. Nor does Richard Nixon. Maybe we've come a long ways when the supporters
Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 2 (II), 12/4/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , and we s till have a relation s hip. I'm going to try to go to England next summer and going to stay with Ray Shearer, who' s now with NBC in London. Pat Reffern a~ , ~~ 2 Reuters bureau chief in Washington, is a particularly good f r i 2nd of ours
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • replaced, I believe. The Nixons said they thought they were getting shabby again; well, that's seven or eight years, eight or nine. F: Yes, and a lot of use. G: But you've seen those. Every single affair that's happened in the East Room has seen those
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert M. Montague, interview 2 (II), 11/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Father Wunibald W. Schneider, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • president he came to the church, and he brought his visitors and company, or even the family, Lynda and Luci. Then, of course, Luci got married. Oh, yes, Luci got married in Washington. I wasn't there, but Luci and Pat used to come to church when they were
Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Department guy talked about the Asians being small people, and Johnson, I remember, said, "These State Department people think I'm going to go out there, and pat a little guy on the head and say, 'Little man, do this. "' He said, "They don't give me any
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember correctly. temperament for it. bruising. He didn't have the I'm afraid that he would have taken a very bad The Judiciary Committee is a tough committee. It had been headed by Pat Mc Carran for many years, and boy, oh boy, Pat Mc Carran had
Oral history transcript, F. Edward Hebert, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- III -- 15 Actually he had a very, very good relationship with the President. He had almost total access to everything, including the bedroom, that Nixon's photographer, Ollie Atkins, who died a few weeks ago, told me
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Jordan III, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (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, Robert H. Finch, interview 1 (I), 2/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and President [Richard] Nixon during LBJ's retirement. F: Well, obviously this ignores the striking earlier history between the two going back to the Eisenhower years, but Johnson made it a point with the [1968] election barely over--we were in New York
  • Meeting LBJ and the "Johnson treatment;" deciding how to proceed in the Richard Nixon Administration with Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) programs that existed in the Johnson Administration; problems enacting civil rights legislation; Finch's
Oral history transcript, Robert H. Finch, interview 2 (II), 6/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and his discussion with you as he was leaving the presidency. Do you want to recount what you can of that conversation? F: I may have mentioned when we talked before, that the day after the [Richard] Nixon election in 1968, when we were in New York
  • LBJ's meeting with Richard Nixon and members of Nixon's Cabinet following the 1968 election; LBJ's interest in finding a cure for cancer; problems enacting civil rights legislation, such as "white flight"; problems with the implementation
Oral history transcript, Phyllis Bonanno, interview 4 (IV), 2/18/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of South Vietnam--I never could say that man's name--again hoping that that was going to move the whole process forward. I think the amount of time he put into like the briefing with Nixon and briefings 1 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • consulting with Clark Clifford; transition activities the last two months of LBJ's administration; miscommunications between LBJ and Nixon and their staffs; Henry Kissinger's criticism of LBJ's foreign policy; Nelson Rockefeller; LBJ's frustration
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know Colson. He comes from Massachusetts. He was on the staff of Senator Leverett Saltonstall at one time. You must know him." I repeated I didn't. He identified him then as a member of Nixon's White House staff, at which point I think I had some vague
  • Charles Colson; memos Richard Nixon's staff wrote and distributed attempting to hurt O'Brien's reputation, including one that suggested a conflict of interest between O'Brien as head of O'Brien Associates and Democratic National Committee (DNC
Oral history transcript, Henry Bellmon, interview 1 (I), 4/24/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • of the Oklahoma Republican Committee. In 1962 you were elected governor of Oklahoma, the first Republican governor of the state, and served as governor until 1966. In about that year I believe you became Nixon's national campaign manager and also opened
  • Political biography; meetings with President Johnson; impressions of LBJ; development of Republican Party in Oklahoma; work as Nixon's national campaign manager in 1966 and 1967; impact of LBJ's administration on state of Oklahoma
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . To sum it up, they found that their membership generally was hell-bent to get to the polls and vote for Richard Nixon. G: Had Nixon's campaign encouraged this support? O: There were committees of labor for Nixon as there were John Connally Democrats
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • upset. The people who make a big play out of this have been Republicans in the Congress. I don't know if President Nixon will have this much trouble or not, but my goodness, we certainly had-F: To a certain extent is this Congressional reluctance
  • 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, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 26 (XXVI), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • contributing aspects to it. It was considered a plus. Some pundits and observers felt that it might have been an overt attempt on the part of Lyndon Johnson to help Hubert Humphrey. There might have been an element of that in it. G: Nixon certainly felt
  • to Vietnam; the Anna Chennault situation and suspicion that Richard Nixon might be influencing the South Vietnam government to delay peace negotiations; Humphrey's response to Nixon's behavior; requests that Humphrey use prepared statements and not speak off
Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 2 (II), 3-21-84//19, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of things. Now, his relationship with Vice President Nixon, what did he think about Nixon? E: I have not the foggiest idea. G: He never talked about Nixon? E: No. G: What did his staff think about Nixon? Did the staff have any attitude toward Nixon
Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 4 (IV), 2/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • considered [the] Deep South as part of a victory effort for Kennedy. We had in Tuscaloosa, which we attended in 1960, the [Richard M.] Nixon debates, the Kennedy-Nixon debates. And of course, this helped considerably because Nixon was not popular
  • 1960 Democratic National Convention; Alabama citizens' opinion of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon; the Kennedy/Nixon debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; LBJ's and Lady Bird Johnson's 1960 campaign trip through Alabama; LBJ's ambition; LBJ as vice
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • should participate in the Humphrey campaign. Did you get involved in this one? M: I don't remember that I did. it for a while. B: I hate to say no without thinking about I don't remember that I did. Then after the election of now-President Nixon
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and to define himself. Nixon traveled some. He veered off toward what may have been a special talent of his--I'm talking about Nixon now--essays and thoughts on foreign policy. I don't remember any of it now specifically, but while he was in the office he
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the committee, but the new Nixon budget cut those in half and cut them back to what they had been. They didn't cut them below what they had been but just back to what they had been before. Now the funds don't amount to much because Mr. Rocke- feller puts
  • ; Laurance Rockefeller; Hubert Humphrey; consultant to American Conservation Association; Nixon administration proposed changes in the Council; Udall-LBJ relationship; transition; Hickel's influence with Laurance Rockefeller regarding Citizen
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but would never have allowed him in the mid- or the late sixties to make the leap that Javits and Kennedy wanted, and was made in the Nixon Administration when the Food Stamp Program became truly national with many billions of dollars, instead of one or two
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the things [Richard] Nixon learned when he went with [Clement] Haynsworth and whatever the other guy was, and of the things [Ronald] Reagan learned with [Robert] Bork--[G. Harrold] Carswell--that Supreme Court seat is something that the Senate takes very
Oral history transcript, Charls E. Walker, interview 1 (I), 9/16/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 But, as I recall it, in the late summer of 1960, with the campaign heating up, JFK moved ahead of Nixon in the polls. Foreigners contemplated the realistic possibility of election
  • interest in Richard Nixon's economic policy-making; visits to the LBJ Ranch after LBJ's presidency; the Bart Rowen article that quotes LBJ as saying Walker had "elbows"; deer hunting with LBJ, Jake Pickle, and Walker's son, Chuck; Walker's phone calls
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and we all know the history--Nixon decided for whatever arbitrary reasons he was not going to expend funds the Congress appropriated. And I was reflecting upon the fact that I can remember it was Senator Mondale, Senator Kennedy, Senator Javits and Pete
  • policies under President Nixon.