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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things Teddy said about anybody are you and Nixon. would see him. You two never Now Nixon sees him, and he thinks he's a great hero. You can take Teddy into camp in fifteen minutes." Johnson said, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • ; 1968 convention; Anna Chennault and Nixon; LBJ and the Kennedy people
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: GOVERNOR PAT BROWN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ DATE: F: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
  • Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • I knew about it before he died, but somebody told me that Nixon said as he got up to leave, he had adjourned the session, he almost fainted. Rayburn reached over and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Dick, we're going to miss you around here
Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to stop Kennedy, and Kampleman and Herb Waters and that oil fellow, Pat O'Connor, and a number of others--all anti-ADA. So the Humphrey camp was not one camp but two, and quite bitter and unpleasant. It wasn't a very happy time. M: Even in 1959? R
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 2 (II), 2/26/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • --there was talk of Pat Brown, there was talk of Hershel Loveless, of Freeman, there was talk of [Governor Frank] Docking from Kansas, I believe it was, and there were so many that had been rumored that they would be Vice President on the Kennedy ticket. out who
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the second most powerful man in the nation when Eisenhower was President. He recognized that he could not be that powerful if Kennedy won the election. Now, you might say, "Well, Nixon would have won and then he'd still be Majority Leader." exactly what
Oral history transcript, Carl Phinney, interview 1 (I), 10/11/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -17- Not a bit in the world and I would say that there were over 150,000 people on the streets welcoming them as they came through. It was a much larger turnout for Kennedy and Johnson than Nixon got
Oral history transcript, Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • 1,200,000 against Goldwater . That was even twice the victory that Jack Kennedy had had himself against Nixon . I first met Lyndon Johnson when I got elected to Congress, and Mr . McCormack brought me down to the Board of Education that old Sam had . G: Who
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, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is not meant to be critical. F: True. A senator who is a defeated is no senator at all then. E: Certainly. F: Getting to be Vice President freed Mr. Johnson from Texas. You went in '59 with Vice President Nixon to USSR and to Poland. So far as you know
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But I think momentum takes you, and I think it is the kind of an operation that men really can't handle too well. ran a good campaign this last time. I watched that. Nixon It was very well run, mechanically and strategically. F: R: Yes, I thought
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? Nothing since, no. It might be of interest to you that all of us who were appointed by Johnson offered to resign to President Nixon, and he asked us all to stay on. So the committee that President Johnson, or directors he'd appointed, President Nixon
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 1 (I), 12/17/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • said, "Yes, sir, but I've been about my Vice President's business," and he grinned and didn't say a word ! So we went on out to dinner and oddly enough Nixon was in Chasen's! So he was just about getting ready to leave, so we circled the block--the Vice
Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • wash him, and then I'd shave him, and then I'd spank him," and everybody was whooping and hollering. It was a terrific performance, and he was relatively effective, I think. Tennessee finally, over the religious issue, did go for Nixon, but I think
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • an assumption, not that it functioned under, but that this program--it really started with Mr. Nixon as Vice President, when the Equal Employment-B: Your immediate ancestor was the President's committee which was headed by the Vice President-- LBJ
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • to carry Texas for Humphrey. thought we had a pretty good shot at it. I'd always When we started it was so bad I wanted to be sure we weren't embarrassed and humiliated. After that I began to think as we moved, Nixon was, I thought, freezing; he began
Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • Nixon reappointed me. B: Congratulations. H: I mean, it's uncanny that I'd be talking to you when I'm to continue as vice chairman for a five year appointment. surprise. B: That's excellent. It kind of came as a LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • automatically the best that's in him . got, no matter who he is . I think Johnson did it, and I think Nixon will do it, and I think Eisenhower did it . best they had . He gives the best he's I think they all put the Now where that best comes to in your
Oral history transcript, Charles B. Lipsen, interview 1 (I), 6/13/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Clark W. Thompson and Libbie Moody Thompson, interview 1 (I), 10/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • --but whoever it may be, Mr. Nixon or Mr. Humphrey, I think he's going to put the brakes on some of our liberal tendencies of the past few years. M: So, it may well be the end of a political era. T: It may well be the end of an era. M: Apparently
Oral history transcript, Bascom Timmons, interview 1 (I), 3/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • . But I think if Johnson-Nixon had been the candidates, Johnson would have won. M: He was I believe he would have. It's just been said that his political machine, or the Democratic National Committee was not in terribly good shape in the beginning. T
Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • , the position of the persons in charge of the Texas Democratic party was that therefore Eisenhower and Nixon ought to go on the ballot as the Democratic nominees in Texas because our Democratic state convention went on record as favorable toward them
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 1 (I), 1/28/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in their overalls, and local people. He just worked himself up into the greatest speech you can imagine, but he made the mistake of saying, "I ask you what Dick Nixon ever did for Culpeper?'! And the crowd applauded. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, James P. Coleman, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • remember, in 1968 President Nixon spoke on the Governor's Mansion grounds in Jackson, when he was a candidate. Missis~ippi And has--well, they voted for Goldwater in 1964, but I believe that's the only time they've ever supported the Republican ticket
Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)