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  • problems from time to time. R: That's right. I think it's a very subtle, complex, difficult kind of struggle to carry out. M: Mentioning the present--early 1970--president Nixon's policy has gained the title "Vietnamization."How different do you
  • Coordination of military and political effort problem; Nixon Vietnam problem; U.S. relations with mainland China, Laos, Thailand, Japan and Okinawa, Indonesia and Korea; Pueblo incident; India’s food problem; the Alliance for Progress; the Panama
  • and guidance. And in retrospect, I just think it disturbed the President a great deal that he was not used more by Nixon. Although Nixon did meet with him several times. They never had the kind of relationship that he had with Eisenhower and Truman, which
  • LBJ's relationship with Presidents Eisenhower, Truman, and Nixon; LBJ's 1968 speech to the Ladies Garment Workers in Atlantic City; LBJ's meeting with Australian Prime Minister John Gorton and U.S. relations with Australia; LBJ inviting Bonanno's
  • will end up dominating Nixon, and the country will be in economic difficulties all over again. F: How did you learn you were coming to Washington? W: In preparedness? F: Yes. W: I forget that exact medium. F: What I'm trying to establish
  • it. I had a feeling that President Kennedy was convinced that he had this vote, that he was going to get it, that there was no way that Nixon could take it away from him. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • of the old Cannon Building; there you had a three-room office. I was fortunate in getting up to the fifth floor. And along one wing, the wing that goes down First Street, was a fellow by the name of Richard Nixon, who came here two years after I did
  • it briefly in his farewell address.That brought it to Nixon embracing it when he became president and moving on partisanly to bring it about at least in part, ultimately. (Interruption) G: What did your colleagues from the Kennedy Administration think
  • and the attention the Post Office Department received at cabinet meetings; Richard Nixon's and postmaster general-designate Winton Blount's support for the blue-ribbon commission's proposal to make the Post Office Department an independent entity; O'Brien's work
  • McDonnell and Company as its president.Either way, I would be coming to New York. So I joined the firm and came to New York to meet the top officers of the firm for the first time. I think it was literally on the day that Nixon was being inaugurated. I moved
  • The Humphreys' visit with the O'Briens the day before Richard Nixon's inauguration; O'Brien's decision to become president of McDonnell and Company as Murray McDonnell became chairman of the board; Ira Kapenstein and Phyllis Maddock moving
  • and then he became the director of the Nutrition Institute at Tufts and by this time the Agriculture Committee was rewarding him by furnishing most of the money for that venture. G: Was the Nixon Administration more receptive to expanding these programs
  • support for food programs during the Johnson and Nixon administrations; "Dietary Goals for the USA"; opposition to the federal food programs; the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs becoming a subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture
  • in. Iv!: Yes. G: And I voted for Hr. Johnson. I voted for him I think in all of his races, except I didn't vote for him in 1960. I supported the Nixon team in 1960. M: Johnson finally made it, of course, in 1948, and left the House. Did you have
  • anxious to do anything he wanted. Of course I've always felt that, and I think subsequent events again have proved right, the newspapers did this to him. You know, Nixon has been in now while we're talking nearly two months. According to the press he
  • said he hoped we'd understand his decision, yes. F: What did you do then during the campaign? Y: During the campaign I was for Nixon. Part of my reason was that I felt that the Democratic Party had turned down the more logical candidate; LBJ
  • � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 phrases of Nixon about it, you
  • as you hoped it would? C: Yes, I think--my view, in retrospect, is that the bill we got passed was a fully workable bill. I think the tragedy was that the program was not far enough off the ground. [The] Nixon Administration took it as a symbol. And I
  • that President Nixon took on coming into office. Within the first month or so he announced that he wasn't going to engage in jaw-boning, which I think was--. First, policy-wise, I think it was tragic. Second, he deprecated and denigrated this very effective
  • and arranging to work for him in Texas; Faulk’s activities during the McCarthy period; Faulk emceeing Washington D.C. events; Sam Rayburn; Richard Nixon; O.P. “Bob” Bobbitt; a supposed lawsuit against Texas Broadcasting Corporation; dispute with LBJ regarding
  • ? G: Well, in my presence I'd say small talk though he did talk. Of course, Nixon was in office, and I do know that he had conversations with President Nixon from time to time. B: Did he ever talk about that, or--? G: I never heard him critical
  • -­ 22 or December of 1969, for a month . G: Now, Nixon's Vietnamization was taking hold 0: That's right . And by now, of 1968 from Vietnam to in the fall by this time . of 1968--I came back in April the States, and I covered the political
  • . There wasn't anything that he wouldn't stoop to. F: Do you think that his relationship with Roy Cohn and the Schine fellow was, shall we say, sinister? P: Yes, it was sinister. F: Back to 1960 now, we have a very exciting campaign between Nixon on the one
  • a bi-partisan, non-political stamp on the findings of the commission. stepped out. This has held until a month ago when I The Nixon Administration wanted me out mainly for political reasons, to the best of my knowledge. Mc Well, did this non
  • ; 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
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 G: I knew of the arrangement: that President Eisenhower made with Mr. Nixon, which t might say I knew also had been thoroughly discussed with the Congressional leadership
  • Meeting with LBJ; General Parsons; Bryce Harlow; comparison of Presidents; Arthur Larson; Sputnik, briefing during Eisenhower's illness; U-2 and Geneva Summit; missile gap; Dulles; Nixon's TR to South America; LBJ's TR to Berlin Wall as VP; JFK
  • Nixon may have done, to get to what the law says and what we're here about, what we're about to do. After that happened, I know you were bombarded by people wanting you to please come and do certain types of things for them-- J: I still am. H
  • politically--and you know it was right in front of an election--it would have been a tie vote and Nixon would have untied the vote in opposition to the bill. I made several efforts to get somebody to change their vote. I made a very much stronger effort
  • discussed that also, and we discussed what the country was likely to have to face up to if Mr. Nixon was elected. I used that as another string in the bow in attempting to persuade him that the results of his resignation would be contrary to what he
  • the second spot that Richard Nixon was going to be president. The speaker had an abiding distrust of Mr. Nixon. That was a very negative attitude, I suppose, but it did the trick, the final trick. Many people, of course, influenced him, but that was the final
  • to have to be tried. The Nixon idea of an urban council is not unlike what Joe Califano has been doing for the last few years, basically pulling together all of the interest of cabinet officers on the domestic side to formulate an approach to urban
  • History of task forces; Commissioners Howe and Keppel; Califano's role; Nixon idea of an urban council; experiences working with LBJ
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- III -- 8 leaders mended their ways. Unfortunately, we didn't do it in that way. at least not until the Nixon Administration. G: What about the argument that we hear from some high
  • noted. Maybe because of that is why Latin America willingly accepted President Nixon's idea of emphasizing commerce more and of paying better prices for Latin American products. great enthusiasm. She has accepted that idea with But nevertheless, when
  • public official, the most constructive and understanding one. M: After Johnson went to the Senate and in his later career, did you have any contact with him? V: Well, yes, I had. See, I was defeated by one Richard M. Nixon in 1946, and I believe
  • First meeting LBJ; impressions of LBJ as a Congressman and Senator; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; rural electrification; defeated in 1946 Senate race against Nixon; Cooperative League; meeting Lady Bird; assessment of LBJ's performance
  • a possible opponent ',-Jere W-l() you counting on? a lot of t::d.k early as to--I remember asking Scammon, "Oughtn't the President to decide at least in his own mind whether he ,-?ants to run against l',(,::m.ey or Nixon; and having decided that, 'veIl
  • together in the White House--the night before the inauguration of Nixon--we had a party. He said that he didn't want to hear any of us being quoted in the press as bad-mouthing Nixon, for the simple reason--he gave the analogy of the airplane
  • activities in the activities in the transition process? P: I had contacts with a number of the Nixon aides on sort of a friendly basis. I knew Bryce Harlow very well. We were both Oklahomans, and Bryce had been helpful during our Administration
  • the support of the It finally ended up with a bill to raise the ceiling to $450,000. And then it came before the Congress in the Nixon Administration the first spring. We had the backing of the Nixon Administration from the White House, we were told. We
  • awfully fast, much too fast I thought, but he could make it. And very blunt-speaking, I think that's what attracted Johnson. But it also attracted Nixon, and as I said, the Pakistanis specialized in this. One of my memories is on the around-the-world trip
  • out to old Nixon and thought Nixon was going to make him vice president. I won't get on Connally, I'll tell you. I would, but I don't think I want to do it publicly. G: Was there a legal problem with replacing the state executive committee
  • . Nixon . I think Mr . Meany showed his wisdom there and even Mr . Reuther took the position that � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Curry--I--5 here after Nixon had had one. One of the reasons I remember
  • as commander-in-c·hief on the information he had, and I support President Nixon as far as what he's trying to do. I really doubt the wisdom of the day when we cripple the powers of the president to be commander-in-chief of this country. There's something
  • not, if I recall correctly, morning meetings such as I read in the paper that the Nixon ..l.drninistration White House has. F: There was nothing routine about these--every Tuesday or every second Tuesday or something like that? W: I think every once