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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 24 (XXIV), 7/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and [Spiro] Agnew were vulnerable--their leadership qualities or lack of them, deviousness, harking back to the fur coat, the Nixon-Kennedy debates. So I saw a potential for very powerful spots. Now the record shows that they were powerful in the attack
Oral history transcript, David Ginsburg, interview 2 (II), 8/26/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • bombing halt; the end of LBJ's presidency; Humphrey's opinion of Spiro Agnew
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 25 (XXV), 8/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • nothing as a result of that. We'd pursue this from all aspects. George Mitchell brought up the possibility that Muskie should challenge Spiro Agnew to a debate. Presently there is no Wallace vice-presidential candidate so we don't have the third candidate
  • of vice-presidential debates; Spiro Agnew's reputation; Wallace's support from organized labor; money to promote voter registration in New York; the campaign status in September 1968; campaign committee meetings; the recording and release of the Salt Lake
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 28 (XXVIII), 9/24/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Meanwhile, as I became more active, I focused on the role that [Spiro] Agnew had assumed on behalf of Nixon. He traveled the country extensively. He was riding high in 1970 and so was Nixon. They envisioned making a significant breakthrough in the off-year
  • to get television time; O'Brien's televised speech regarding Nixon's decision to invade Cambodia and reaction to the speech among Democrats; Spiro Agnew's attacks on O'Brien; Frank Stanton and CBS agreeing to give the DNC four thirty-minute loyal
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 2 (II), 4/14/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • met [Spiro] Agnew, although I was a senior member and chairman of a committee. F: Where were you when Kenn~dy was assassinated? Were you here or were you up in Washington? C: I was in Washington. F: How did you get the news? C: I think I'd
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 31 (XXXI), 12/10/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Spiro Agnew, which did indicate I was having some impact on the White House. He became personal in his attacks on me, which I relished because I felt that was evidence I was having some modicum of success. During that time I was repeatedly demanding
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • did. There had been five calls made by Agnew's plane, none to the South Vietnamese Ambassador, none to the Department of State and I advised the White House that there hadn't been any in that regard and that's all there was to it. This matter was blown
  • Commission; the 1964 Democratic National Convention; allegations of microphone on Nixon’s plane; calls made from Spiro Agnew’s plane; Anna Chennault. DeLoach’s relationship with Walter Jenkins, Marvin Watson. Jenkins’ departure from the White House staff
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • tendency in a campaign. Your own people are apt to react strongly to hard-hitting spots. We had that with [Spiro] Agnew and then Nixon at a later date, by the same Tony Schwartz. G: Oh, really? O: Yes. G: Which spots in particular? O: We had one
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ] Humphrey and Mr. [Spiro] Agnew would say the same thing. In fact, there's a picture of those boys, with the exception of one or two of them, there on the wall where I gave a luncheon for them after the campaign. And the President was kind and gracious
Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to tell you. Because we were down at the White House after Mr. Nixon was elected. They invited the committees down there, Science and Astronautics and Science and Space, or Space, Science, and Astronautics in the Senate. Council, one Mr. Spiro Agnew
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 32 (XXXII), 12/11/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in terms of the bigness. A favorable decision and the opposition of the Justice Department is simply because of bigness. He goes on to say, "There is another internal memo. It follows the 1970 [Spiro] Agnew meeting, which suggests that Kleindienst
Oral history transcript, Robert N. Ginsburgh, interview 1 (I), 6/2/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • [Spiro] Agnew. RG: Yes. G: William Safire's book-- RG: That's strictly speculation. I do know that she knew about it. 18 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
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, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • like that. But it became kind ()f obvious that Romney ,vas a Spiro Agnew in disguise, and was not :>'Icn a good candidate. think the general feeljn~~ ;.12.3 At that point I that he'd rather run against Nixon than LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • off, and with them, you see, they took the whole communications elite-- I mean, it's not Spiro Agnew's argument that there's one vast network here. There isn't a vast network. But what you have is a subculture which tends to accept certain values
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • national prestige, all I can say is he was better known than Spiro Agnew. But nevertheless, he did have some national prestige, particularly with small business. But as time went on, it became more and more apparent that he had to have someone who could
Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh poor people in America, and I think he has got to maintain that. G: What prompted that question was Mr. Agnew's statement about "like the surgeon who doesn't consult with the patient in making a decision." I gather Mr. Nixon and Mr
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • , the Democrats were also highly disorganized, and if they had had a better state organization, which we also wished we had had here, the story might have been different . In any event, Humphrey carried Maryland ; Agnew didn't carry Maryland . M: Well, what's
Oral history transcript, James O. Eastland, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a great deal of uncertainty right up until the convention-­ E: In fact I was there when--we left the night before President Nixon and Vice President Agnew got to Johnson City to confer with the President. F: Did you ever hear the President express
Oral history transcript, Carroll Kilpatrick, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • or justwhenever--? K: Whenever anybody becomes available. They have Cabinet officers and senators and bureaucrats. F: Are they sought or dodged by the principal involved? K: Both, both. refused. We've asked both Nixon and Agnew to come. I believe all
Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : Nixon, Johnson, and Agnew. Does the vice president cut any ice, really, in the Senate? G: No. Not until he has a tie vote, and nine times out of ten he's off playing golf someplace when you need him. Agnew, I must say, has been the most consistent vice
Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • it pol it i call y . G: Did he think that Nixon was behind it? J: (Pause) G: That's a good answer, actually. J: I think he was ambivalent about that. G: Yes. J: He was certain that Agnew was involved, for a very good reason. G: Did he tell
Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and talked in much greater detail about this. I also had a call from a mutual friend ",ho asked me would I come to see the Vice President-elect, Mr. Agnew, which I did. It would be completely inaccurate for me to say that he told me
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Griffin -- I -- 5 the Senate he was quite a contrast from Agnew and Rockefeller, neither of whom seemed to have had much experience with parliamentary procedures and rules
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • a relationship that is not close. Recently I read some columnist in which he painted out that the Nixon-Agnew relationship was much closer and Nixon was trying to break Agnew into the Presidency, quite contrary to the Roosevelt-Truman relationship. Tru:nan Has
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 3 (III), 6/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 6 (VI), 4/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and emotional agreement on all this. C: I would say generally so. F: So there was no collision of any sort there between Defense and Justice? C: There was no conflict there. For instance, neither one of us felt--that I remember former-Governor Agnew
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, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to backbite Kennedy, or leaking a lot of information, or making unauthorized speeches, or going off in the Agnew route. He just never did that. The fact is, I think the only notable speech that Johnson made as vice president-well, of course
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ?" The invitations do go up. They go up much less in the case of the Johnsons, moving from majority leader to vice president, than they would for Agnew moving from governor of Maryland to vice president of the United States, so that she had had a taste of the world
Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it at all just because of that." So then we had Vice Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Humphrey, and Agnew. [They] were all in charge of the council until 1973, when Nixon had abolished it by a reorganization plan. So I think all of those reasons [were
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of years. In the 1968 campaign, I came up with the One about Agnew says, "If you've seen one slum. you've seen them all." I say, "If you seen one slum, you seen one too many." F: That's good. M: So whenever I see Humphrey, he says, "Write faster; write
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a candidate from the West as a vice president . I think Mr . Johnson was right . I honestly believe, and the facts haven't shown otherwise, that John went back to the Nixon group to become vice president, and then Agnew's financial immorality blew up
Oral history transcript, Earl Warren, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)