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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was sort of ambivalent about Humphrey both ways. G: Sure. What did you observe about the relationship between Johnson and Nixon that year that you were working [for him]? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Southern Manifesto; farm legislation; Francis Case; social security; LBJ and Paul Butler; LBJ and Nixon; 1956 Democratic National Convention

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 3 (III), 11/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

in whom the Republicans might select? In other words, who his successor would be. T: I think he could easily predict that Nixon would be the nominee. I think a year before the convention Nixon was the apparent front runner. I don't know that he had any

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

11 that. But an)~ay when he submitted the names--and I ' l l just say the Sanders' nomination and others--it was after the election. Richard Nixon had been elected President, and there was some indication at tIn t point that Mr. Mitchell was going

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for the party. I found during 1970 that Nixon had free reign. That was not unusual. A president has great advantages. I had seen that in my days on the other side. But what was disconcerting was that he seemed to be on television constantly. There didn't seem
elections; O'Brien's desired role as spokesman for the Democratic Party during Richard Nixon's presidency; Bob Strauss' efforts to raise money for DNC programs and to pay off debt; going to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and networks to try

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 3 (III), 6/7/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

; Reedy’s relationship with LBJ after the Presidency; LBJ’s use of the telephone; LBJ’s power of persuasion; LBJ’s positive attitude; Walter Jenkins; President Nixon; LBJ’s and Sam Rayburn’s view of Nixon; LBJ’s separation from reality; LBJ’s childhood; Sam

Oral history transcript, George A. Smathers, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had an opportunity to observe his relationship with Richard Nixon when Nixon was vice president. They'd come down to Florida, wouldn't they, at the same time? S: Yes. G: How did they get along? S: They would get along very well. G: Did they? Do
agreeing to be JFK's running mate; LBJ's relationship with Richard Nixon.

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

did indeed work with the Labor people and some staff budget people, and they indeed liked it and they started urging it on Wirtz. And Wirtz became very high on the plan. Now, Nixon--I can't remember whether we started to run into trouble before

Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the experience that my wife and I had on the Sequoia. I can't pin the date down, although I would think it would be sometime after the Republican convention of 1968, and after President Johnson had had a meeting with President Nixon at the White House, generally
The Sequoia; LBJ's assessment of Nixon; LBJ's comments on Martin Luther King; working on a tax surcharge speech on the Sequoia; staff members wanting access to the Sequoia for personal use; Camp David; visiting the Ranch; LBJ's office at the Ranch

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 17 (XVII), 6/11/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Was there a way during these stops, these speeches, to have monitored what the Nixon-Lodge campaign was saying and answer their charges or their accusations? R: They were being followed closely in Washington, and we'd get on the phone every time we had a chance
between the convention and election due to a lack of political stability; the JFK/LBJ 1960 campaign kickoff parade in Boston; LBJ drinking too much in El Paso at the beginning of the campaign; the nature of LBJ's campaign speeches; the Richard Nixon-Henry

Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

two man. F: Did you have any idea that he would accept the vice presidency? Or would be offered it? M: No, no. F: Is that the main reason that you supported Nixon in 1960? M: Yes, absolutely, absolutely. did Sam I was very disappointed when
Biographical information; envoy to Luxembourg; 1960 campaign; Eleanor Roosevelt; selling her house to LBJ when he was VP; Democratic Women for Nixon in 1960; Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy; Democratic factions

Oral history transcript, Thomas O. Paine, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the Apollo 8 launch. our final meeting on this was November 11. I believe that President-elect Nixon happened to be visiting President Johnson the day of our meeting in which we decided to send Apollo 8 around the moon. So by phoning that information over

Oral history transcript, Thomas H. Kuchel, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

INTERVIEWEE: THOMAS H. KUCHEL INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Senator Kuchel's office, Los Angeles, California Tape 1 of 1 G: You came to the Senate in 1953, I suppose. You were appointed to replace Vice President Nixon, as I understand it. K
election; Wayne Morse; the Lewis Strauss nomination; the McCarthy censure and the Watkins committee; LBJ’s relationship with Richard Nixon; relationship between Republicans and Democrats in Senate; civil rights legislation; statehood for Hawaii and Alaska

Oral history transcript, Donald J. Cronin, interview 8 (VIII), 5/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

I condone all these things but I do think I recognize the human frailty in every person and I think this goes to that same question. (Interruption) G: Anything on the 1968 presidential race between [Richard] Nixon, Humphrey with George Wallace

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and a possible future president. F: We're moving ahead. H: Yes. F: But did he ever express himself on Richard Nixon vis-à-vis Johnson? H: You mean as being elected president? F: Yes. H: No, not that I can recall. If he did, it was, "If Dick

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 2 (II), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the first [Kennedy-Nixon] debate, but that predated what I'm talking about here by about eight years. So, no, as far as my own relations with Daley, nothing, and I don't recall that the company had any problem. G: Did the reporters at CBS feel
of 1934; introducing the idea of televised presidential debates; the first Nixon-JFK debate; setting up the details of the Nixon-JFK debates.

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, that we were going to support them. And that's the position I took consistently, not only during President Johnson's term but President Nixon's also. G: When you spoke at West Point in 1970 you said that the South Vietnamese realized that they would

Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

minority leader end as majority leader. I suppose I was influenced somewhat by the same consideration that others were. I can remember very clearly a meeting with Nixon. Nixon some in those years. I was covering And I would say in the late fifties, I

Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

much worried about Johnson when Humphrey was running against Nixon. pretty late. I felt that Johnson was sitting on the fence until I have no concrete proof of this. But, knowing that [Governor] Connally was talking for and reputed to be raising
programs; Parten’s opinion Nixon; future problems with Congress under Nixon; the energy problem.

Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with Rowland Evans, and author of Lyndon B. Johnson, An Exercise in Power, as well as other books, including one now on the Nixons. To begin with, you were still a fairly junior congressional reporter at the time your book begins. How close on that level were

Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the Hearst Newspaper Bureau, in May of 1968. So I came into this coverage of the presidency in what was the twilight of it. I covered the campaign, the Humphrey-Nixon campaign, and I covered Mr. Johnson as president during the 1964 presidential campaign

Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

.) Mitchell was Secretary of Labor--he favored it, but evidently he was considered a liberal, and Eisenhower's attitude, and even Nixon in those days. We visited Nixon too. We didn't get any too warm a reception or too friendly a feeling or sympathy. From

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 2 (II), 1/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

work. And yet it's eight days after the inauguration of President Nixon. L: Right. M: And yet you're still in office, you're still working as you did before. your position in all of this? Are you preparing to leave office? What's What have you
to Nixon Administration; changes in doctors’ attitudes towards working with government; Gardner’s leadership.

Oral history transcript, James Robinson, interview 1 (I), 2/21/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

of the Nixon years. (Interruption) G: You said you were the student candidate for this position. Were you perceived by them as sort of an LBJ man, do you suppose? R: No, I don't think that had anything to do with it at all. I think I was seen as a moderate

Oral history transcript, Jacob Javits, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

measure? J: I'm trying to think back. G: This was the one where President Nixon I believe broke a tie. J: Vice President Nixon? G: Yes, Vice President Nixon. J: I can't give you a vivid recollection, my reason being that it was obscured by my

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 2 (II), 1/6/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the telephone to hear Salpee [Sahagian]--who was Mansfield's administrative assistant--saying to him, "The President"--Nixon--"is sending a helicopter down to pick you up at some air base we have close by and bring you back to Washington immediately, because

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

become an extremely key factor. It is more so today. But what awakened us to the role of television, the impact of television, were the Kennedy-Nixon debates. The turn of events immediately following the first debate was enough to convince you that from

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, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Thruston Morton, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Then at seven o'clock, Herbert Hoover, Jr., who was then Under Secretary of State, would come down, and I would have thrown away most of it, and then we'd go through it together. At 7:30 the Vice-President, Mr. Nixon-- the then-Vice President--Mr. Nixon would
Biographical information; assessment of LBJ in House and Senate; Geneva Summit Conference; Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Nixon; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s heart attack; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower’s policies; nomination of Lewis Strauss and Abe Fortas

Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on this aid the origin of the thing came about this way. I was told that after the election President Kennedy and Nixon had a rendezvous somewhere in Florida, Key Biscayne. They were discussing and reminiscing, and Jack Kennedy was complaining about

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of size.But the ridiculous Dash-Lenzner theory of the break-in stated it was because of the White House concern regarding what knowledge I might have of a transaction between the Hughes people and Nixon with Bebe Rebozo the middle man. I was to learn
with documents regarding the relationship between O'Brien and Howard Hughes; the settlement in O'Brien's civil suit against the Committee for the Re-election of the President (CREEP); O'Brien's response to Gerald Ford pardoning Richard Nixon; Maurice Stans

Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

down in Los Angeles. You and Senator Richard Nixon proposed the cancellation of it, and the Senate refused to go along with you. Do you recall just where the opposition to your proposal came from? K: This, really, I can't recollect at the moment

Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 In the finals, Richard Nixon and I contested one another. the election and went on the Senate. He won In the finals, the Tideland Vote was again a major factor, although
Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 4 (IV), 11/9/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

later on about their attitude, particularly after the convention in August, and the games that they started to play to wait for Nixon. That part I was privy to. I'm sure I discussed it, but I don't like to just speculate. I do not remember specifically
Thornberry and Abe Fortas; Senators Richard Russell and Everett Dirksen; separation of powers issue regarding Fortas; the effect of Humphrey’s campaign on LBJ’s work; cancelled arms control meeting with the Russians; measuring how LBJ would run against Nixon

Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/oh 6 F: What did the Majority Leader do to get the bill on the floor? E: The first bill was passed during the Eisenhower Administration by the Nixon subterfuge which he held that a bill coming over from the House, didn't have to go to a committee

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

you have any insights into that at all? She is supposed to have gone to the South Vietnamese Embassy to encourage them not to accept a settlement, because if they did not, presumably Nixon would be elected, and they would get a much better deal
to the press in the Paris negotiations; information leaks during Paris talks; private talks held in Paris; Madame Anna Chennault; results of the Paris talks after the Nixon administration was in power; writing for The Vantage Point; LBJ in retirement.

Oral history transcript, John Harllee, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

this? H: No, no. We had no connection with that. Mc: Can you tell me what the commission did to ease the transition from the Johnson Administration to the Nixon Administration? Was there anything necessary to do? H: Most briefly stated, there wasn't
of shipbuilding and sea-going unions; control of foreign steamship lines; containerization of shippers; inspections; origin/scope/work of FMC; White House support of commissioner; Robert J. Blackwell; transition from LBJ Administration to Nixon Administration

Oral history transcript, Terry Sanford, interview 2 (II), 3/1/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

/show/loh/oh 9 Johnson, but there's still a vocal minority bitterly complaining about Nixon. I don't think at any time did Johnson receive criticism for being a traitor to the South in any sizeable amounts; he later got criticism for other things
Education; Heller plan; James Farmer; open accommodations ordinance; Chapel Hill; 1964 Lady Bird’s whistle stop tour; Governor Dan Moore; possible cabinet position; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Richard Nixon and Duke University; Sam Ervin

Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 2 (II), 9/13/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

be done so as not to adversely impact on our security and strategic relationship with Taiwan. I think that once President Nixon achieved the breakthrough, we are treading this careful balance of having accepted and faced up to the reality of Communist

Oral history transcript, Clifford P. Case, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It wasn't done in order to placate the President; it was done because he generally believed in that particular course. G: Did you have an opportunity to observe his relationship with President Eisenhower and also Vice President Nixon's relationship
Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil

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