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. Governor, the big interest of course in '62 was your campaign against Richard Nixon, and the feeling that Richard Nixon was using California as a testing ground for a comeback for the Presidency . I wondered if you would talk a little bit about the issue
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Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown

, and that with the divisions in the party, that Richard Nixon was absolutely a cinch to be elected and that unless he would consent to go on the ticket, then the ball game was over. That's how that happened. The next visitor in the room was former Governor of Texas, John

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, 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, 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, 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

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

with Nixon because it would help him [Johnson]. F: He'd be in a position when he called the White House that he could go on over and talk about it. G: That's right. F: Did you have any relationship with Sam Rayburn? LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 1 (I), 10/30/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, George P. Miller, interview 1 (I), 4/22/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: In a sense you were girding for 1956, in case Richard Nixon should be the president before 1956? M: Well, that at least was the speculation. So we went to Texas. Governor Stevenson gave a lecture at the University of Texas. Then we got in the car

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

moving and he shouted out as he departed, "What has Dick Nixon ever done for Culpepper?1t You remember that, I guess you've had that from a lot of sources. That actually happened. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship

Oral history transcript, Alan L. Dean, interview 2 (II), 3/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition

Oral history transcript, Theodore Hesburgh, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, Notre Dame, Indiana, and I assume for purposes of this particular memoir I've been a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights since its inception in 1957. I've been chairman for the last year and a half, but that was a President Nixon appointment

was presiding, and then you had the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and NASA and a few other outside people. Well, when Nixon was presi- dent he abolished this council by a reorganization plan

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the provisions that we were much opposed to. Vice President Nixon at that time cast the deciding vote, and he cast it against us. But Johnson, who was Majority Leader at the time, was very much with us on that particular episode. MU: He was voting your way

hard to We in this agency, like the term that President Nixon recently used in saying sufficiency. That's rather vague but deliberately so, because to try to decide what level of forces would be enough for each side to have an assured destruction
Division of ACDA; General Wheeler; President Nixon; ICBM; arms control proposal; LBJ's interest in arms control

Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

their language, but they had much to The way to do it is to come to that office with a broad acquaintanceship in the first instance. If you don't have it, the more I think about it, then you shouldn't be President. I don't think Nixon has got a sufficiently

Oral history transcript, Glen P. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

evidence that Johnson did in fact sit on his hands or even encourage the Nixon candidacy over the Humphrey candidacy? H: I have no evidence of that at all. F: In general, you've got a long distinguished career as a newsman, how would you, try to project

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know some of the burdens of I've been here with Truman and Eisenhower and John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and now Mr. Nixon, and I think as much as you can, you've got to back, generally, you've got to back constituted authority. But that doesn't

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

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