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  • . There was a full and frank exchange on what lay ahead for NATO. Clifford thought that these had been a "uniquely productive four or five days. " The President urged Secretary Clifford to read Nixon's speech on NATO. ~W~ German See!'elat y Gliff!:\M then reported
  • tremendous respect, always, for his intellectual ability. I thought he was a towering--I thought that he was, that intellectually he was far superior to Nixon, to Ford. And Kennedy had a very quick facile mind, but Johnson in some ways had a deeper mind
  • ‫ ס‬Pat Nixon. I know she will make a fine First Lady. She has much t ‫ ס‬look forward to. And I know you have some exciting years ahead a.s you meet and cover the new First Family• It is going to be a little lonely without you. And don 1t be surprised
  • of [approach]? B: Yes, and I think this was an important difference between him and President Nixon . I know, for example, that it's impossible to get through to President Nixon on a foreign policy issue without going through the NSC staff and Mr
  • awareness is best evidenced by the fact that ~e•ve got two prime political animals, President Nixon on the one hand, and Senator Edmund Muskie on the other, attempting to out-compete the other in terms of who can do the most. We are, as some obse:::vers
  • or tips on to Mrs. Nixon? Dr. Gould's essay is going to focus in on the institution office of First Ladies and we're sort of interested of the in whether there LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • . He's a solid, gray-haired man, important looking, and affable enough, almost exactly like he ought to somehow for the Nixon cabinet. As we drove back to the house he said to me, "You know, my wife always speaks mighty highly of you. were a good f ir
  • and untroubled for the Nixon Administration as possible and not dissipate their initial energies carping and criticizing at impulsive things that he might be doing in the last days. Personally, I had enormous respect for this posture that he took. I think
  • certainly did; it was a great project and probably the only one in the history of the country that hasn't cost the public any money to build. M: This is a scattershot question, but I don't recall a memorial for President Nixon, unless it's next to his
  • was very well put. \Ve are finding that a lot of people will take Nixon over the others, but they won't take Nixon over Johnson." · TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONBETWEEN ED COOPER (Association of Motio.n Pictur.es, Washington, D. C. ) AND WALTER JENKINS
  • the most serious threat? The President: Nixon has the best organization, more campaign ability and experience. Percy is a little boy blue. Romney has demonstrated what he is. Reagan is new and attractive. I guess a Nixon-Reagan ticket would be the strongest
  • 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
  • and completely isolated from the public. F: Everything has got to be filtered through somebody. M: That's right. Eisenhower was in that position. Roosevelt was in that position. Nixon is now in that position, But Kennedy and Johnson, as far as I could ever
  • appropriations are decided; SCLC and Reverend Jesse Jackson demonstration in May 1968; LBJ’s Vietnam advisors; Comparisons of staff from Roosevelt to Johnson; comparison of presidents Roosevelt to Nixon.
  • in proclaiming United States accomplishments in space? Along with that, would you compare his record in this latter respect to that of President Nixon? That may be a little loaded. K: Yes. President Johnson had been very active from the beginning on the whole
  • their actions last year when that bill was up because they got a big quid pro quo. They got what they wanted by way of spending limitations. Our members didn't get anything this time for supporting Nixon. That's one of the reasons why they didn't support Nixon
  • to be a very serious individual . And this, I think, ties into the sort of Baptist preacher thing . this has cost him terribly in public support . I think And, in passing, I think it's going to be the same with Nixon, although I don't think those two men--I
  • they didn't like, and many, many other things. I'd gone through a process of opening up the campus so anybody could speak, including communists, which had caused major problems in the state. Nixon, who was running for governor, had attacked the univer- sity
  • in Indonesia; heading up Carnegie Commission on Higher Education; impression of Alice Rivlin’s work; Edith Green’s higher education bill; carry-over into Nixon Administration; bloc grant issue; Kerr as chairman of the National Committee for Political Settlement
  • for obvious consultation . There was a lot of negotiation on this whole issue of what the Nixon people would say about the surcharge and such . M: Would you help draft speeches, say, for his--? 0: Yes . Several occasions I was the principal draftsman
  • ://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
  • that there's a somewhat similar group now working with the Nixon Administration to revise the order. I would guess however that it won't be a substantial departure from the order that came out in 1962. Along with this development were various legislative
  • of LBJ as a public servant; LBJ’s working habits and personality; Lady Bird; transition from Johnson to Nixon administration.
  • Johnson's effectiveness as Vice President 15,16 Days immediately following Kennedy assassination 17,19,20,21,22 Sec . Willard Wirtz 18,19 Mr . Meany 22 OEO 23,24 Everett Dirksen 25,26 President Johnson's major accomplishments 27 Nixon
  • as Vice President; JFK assassination; Secretary Willard Wirtz; George Meany; OEO; Everett Dirksen; LBJ's major accomplishments; Nixon; Humphrey; George Wallace
  • , with 2 p 08/04/62 A 1 p 05/24/61 A *~ l::r/,.,, 1 p NOTE: document 1132 was added to the file of VP Nixon's - ,,.(~ Secret from J. s. Earman CIA Secret To Col. Burris from J. s. Earman [carbon copy of Doc. 1126] list RESTRICTION ~7 05/24/61
  • AdmlDl ■tratlon. 4. Tu heart el. the aa tier• then. la aot ao much la the refinement of the bat la persuading Nixon tllat thla la the· right courae for him, for the principles, President, aad for t1,e aatlon. 5. Wltll reaped to a ratlOll&le for Nl.xOD
  • that Connally was secretly helping Nixon; LBJ briefing Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace; phone communication on airplanes; a cancelled trip to Russia; transition among the staff; Stuart Udall renaming D.C. Stadium to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium; the time
  • 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
  • that was probably going to hurt my campaign, it would further confuse my unsophisticated voters, but I felt I had to do it. I felt that Humphrey's election then was more important than mine. I never supported Nixon, and he knew that. M: Did you have anything to do
  • 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
  • whether Up to this point Bill Wirtz on the record has always said that he didn't want Job Corps. This was the party line of course, and this would be what would be expected for him to say. And so at this point in time with Mr. Nixon's publicly stated
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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