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  • 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
  • at the convention. On the first ballot, we're going to be faced with a choice between Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. And at that time people like Dave Lawrence, DiSapio, Dick Daley, Williams, Pat Brown, are all going to have to make the decision I've already
  • at the Ranch. daughters. It was fascinating. There were the There was luci there and Pat Nugent, or one of the boy friends--I don't know. It was before she was married. It was a rol- licking discussion and all of that. Then very shortly thereafter I
  • . Kennedy, Mr . Nixon, and Mr . Albert all in one little huddle . They were the only � � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • upset. The people who make a big play out of this have been Republicans in the Congress. I don't know if President Nixon will have this much trouble or not, but my goodness, we certainly had-F: To a certain extent is this Congressional reluctance
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
  • should participate in the Humphrey campaign. Did you get involved in this one? M: I don't remember that I did. it for a while. B: I hate to say no without thinking about I don't remember that I did. Then after the election of now-President Nixon
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • reflected afternoon. moon. his thinking than the man in the He was given a speech which he had to give because it was the Administration position. See, I had told President Nixon in 1960, when he was very generously asking me to go on with him as vice
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 In fact they might be as interesting as were the Nixon-Kennedy debates during that campaign because they were really going from meeting to meeting, getting few hours of sleep, debating under pressure, and they went all out
  • 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
  • . (Note: Allen came in under Nixon and was fired by Nixon.) M: Well, now, what's your relationship with the Justice Department? T: My office does not have any relationship. The legal problems are basically handled by a group of lawyers working under
  • . Nixon's taking the publicity advantage of the thing, doing the talking to the moon, in terms of the old fable in Aesop about the wren jumping off the back of the eagle. I remember two or three things about the Sputnik episode that have always stuck in my
  • to Richard Nixon. Df·i: That is true. F: When did you first get to know Johnson? OM: I actually met Mrs. Johnson a considerable time before I did the President. He were schoolmates at the University of Texas together and in the journalism school
  • 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
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt --9 vice-presidency and said he did it because he didn't like what Nixon did to Helen, he said, "Now Helen was an emotional girl, and she often said and did things that I didn't approve
  • passed his Jury Trial Amendment. I remember the You see, what Johnson was doing was passing both amendments; then he had to deal with Russell and avoid a filibuster. I saw then Vice President Nixon and then Attorney General Bill
  • 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
  • they needed their own bank, so I helped write and defend that legislation. F: Do you think this need for a bank for Latin America came out of sort of a nationalistic pride, or do you think--? B: Yes. If you'll remember, Mr. Nixon had certain problems
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
  • . Johnson often do this kind of thing himself on the phone--get on the phone and call members? M: Yes. More so than President Kennedy. B: Have you had enough of the Nixon Administration to be able to see any kind of pattern in it? M: No, because
  • with good grace just as Richard Nixon did in 1960 when he probably had some grounds to make a loud cry--I suspect that Nixon wouldn't be president today if he had made a fuss about the Kennedy election in 1960. Politically, you've got to learn to be a good
  • na~. Incidentally he, as well as President Nixon, both call me Miss Hanschman in news conferences from time to they can both spell it, I don't mind. time~ but since It dates us both. But I followed him for that entire period of the civil rights
  • at this. Not successful, but interesting. I worked in the Labor Department, really on problems to do with Aid for Dependent Children. I go that far back. It seems to be the new change--Mr. Nixon is changing the welfare program. where it began. Well, that's
  • and through, because I think Nixon and Rogers, then the attorney general, or the acting attorney general, had decided that we weren't going to have a civil rights bill . M: That was interesting what you said about getting to Eisenhower . What you've called
  • , 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
  • 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