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Oral history transcript, Morris Abram, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Richard Nixon, and the candidates, the three that I recall, who were in contention early in the year were all senatorial candidates. One was John F. Kennedy, the other LBJ, and the third of course was Hubert Humphrey. Now later, as we all know
Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic Presidential

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Symposium: Legacy of the Sixties, 1999," LBJ Library (Item)

and Charlie Parker replacing the big bands. And there were Chuck Berry, Little Richard. and of course Elvis. In literature there was the con tentious fiction of Norman Mailer, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, and Kerouac's 011 the Road. Hollywood mirror d

Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr., interview 3 (III), 6/4/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

understood this was an independent commission that was bipartisan in nature. And that there were five commissioners, and that only three could be of one political party. It was something that Nixon has never understood, but Johnson did. He thought

Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)

, and if it got it, whether it could appropriately use it. I was assigned by the Ambassador (James C. Dunn) to accompany this Herter subcommittee throughout Italy ·for three weeks, and one of the members that I got to know very ( well was Richard Nixon, who
Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 37 (XXXVII), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

personal, highly devoted district that Mr. Sam had, found it more difficult, but wasn't about to give in on it. And one of the kind of shiny moments in the year, for me, was when Sir Lawrence Olivier was there putting on Richard III, and for some reason

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

for Dick Kleberg for Congressman--I mean Richard Kleberg for Congress, which included Bexar County at that time. P: This is 1931? B: Yes. He was elected for Congress, and he made an appointment of a young man by the name of Lyndon Johnson to be his

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 7 whip. The most spectacular election, probably, was an ugly one, in which Richard Nixon defeated our old friend, Helen Gahagan Douglas. That was when
throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: 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
and generosity; Jesse Kellam; social security disability insurance; AMA; Senator Kerr; LBJ relationship with Senator Richard Russell; LBJ as a liberal; LBJ and the Presidency; mobilization for youth; Community Action Program; legal services program; Head Start

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

good writer. He was accused of being lazy. I think that started when he was [Richard] Nixon's vice-presidential choice, and apparently he didn't open as many supermarkets as they thought he ought to have. He might have been lazy in doing stupid things
; Jacobson's opinion of LBJ's visit to Vietnam in 1966; Jacobson's work with Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS); military organization in Vietnam; the Vietnam War during Richard Nixon's and Gerald Ford's administrations; evacuating

Oral history transcript, Walt W. Rostow, interview 1 (I), 3/21/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

that, Kennedy knew how far from Eisenhower Nixon really was as vice president. Nixon was kept extremely distant from current business. When I was in Washington to work on the Lebanon-Jordan speech, Jackson and I went around that same Friday morning to talk
; Tet; Chian; Glassboro; transition from LBJ to Nixon.

Reference, LBJ chronology by LBJ Library archives staff: "1955" (Item)

by Richard Neuberger to delete the authorization for Echo Park Dam. Upper Colorado River project advocates ultimately reach a compromise with the conservationists under which the project’s backers agree to drop the proposed Echo Park Dam

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 105: Nov. 9‑14, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 42 (Item)

, now. in December it will be 62 years, and I think the likelihood of being asked is so remote as not to warrant comment. I not only have not been asked, but at: the meeting yesterday, I advised Mr Nixon that I thought he should appoint his new Secretary

Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)

; she became the assistant secretary until Nixon came in. K: Was it within your purview to make prescriptive recommendations as to what was desirable [or] what wasn't, if you saw--? G: Oh yes, of course. K: Did you convey these to Gardner, or back

Oral history transcript, Nadine Brammer Eckhardt, interview 1 (I), 2/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

we always entertained our guests with was getting to listen to Richard Nixon flush his commode, because it came right down into ours. Booth Mooney was in there and Billy Lee and me, and from time to time we'd have other secretaries come in when

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

know that he leaned over backwards to be fair to Nixon and Wallace and not to give Humphrey advantages because of being vice president, simply because he himself had pledged he would not devote an hour. But when there was national security information

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

a problem ever to shove under the rug anyway. The facts of the problem, the real nature of his choice, were not being changed in the smallest degree by what I wrote. very angry. It just made him [Richard] Goodwin, who was still in the White House, LBJ

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 33 (XXXIII), 9/4/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

came up for that, and the Vice President, Mr. [Richard] Nixon, with Pat dropped by to pay his respects to his President's Cabinet members. In fact, we had a large quota of Republicans there: the Speaker, Joe Martin--it was a brief interlude when he

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 103: Nov. 1‑4, 1968 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 41 (Item)

session will be helpful to us when the bill is reintroduced next year, should it fail to pass the present Congress. With warmest personal regards, I am Sincerely yours , Gc:-c-0-..tt~ Richard C. White Member of Congress RCW:jb C,,.vvl ... . , , .§t;-t

Folder, "Population, 1/65 ‑ 12/67," Subject Files, NSF, Box 38 (Item)

Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon have called for inclusion of family planning in United States foreign a.id programs. In June 1965 President Eisenhower wrote Senator Gruening: nlf we now ignore the plight of those unborn genera tions which, because

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 13, 15 July 1978," LBJ Library (Item)

than 4,000 polilical items ~ from Washington's campaign to Nixon's. Smet> then this "instant collection" has been expanded by purchases and donations. The collection now includes buttons, medallions, photos, a painting of George Washing ton, and Jimmy

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

intense about what went on in Karachi . B: Yes, but now even that doesn't upset them very much . But most of our visitors expected to run into opposition to our role in Southeast Asia . I remember Richard Nixon visited India as a private citizen

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of increasing delicacv oi the relationship between Senator Richard Russell and the President? r. Yes. Jo vou want to expatiate a little? :JrobaolY cion't know as r.:iucn a.bouc jCartea as a udQesnip. : :.s "omeone '2lse f'Hi:ht. s1i~hc jit or ~lack over

Oral history transcript, Thomas W. Fletcher, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

and confirmed by the Senate. council. F: So is the D.C. Who are you responsible to? Obviously from a legal point of view or statutory point of view, I'm responsible to the President because he is the man who nominates me. And when President Nixon came

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a Senate document on guided missiles in foreign countries. This was published by Senator [Richard] Russell, who was the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. When the Sputnik went up, it was so startling and dramatic and almost everything

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

used to go as a page or as an employee of Congressman [Richard] Kleberg and listen to Huey Long's speeches from the galleries. ~~: It \'/as when he would have been secretary. I wish I could tell you who would know, but he helped organize--they might

Oral history transcript, A.M. "Monk" Willis, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

had Connally come up there to speak. I.introduced him to 10,000 people up there. We took him to dinner, and Nellie was there, and I said, "Connally, there's one thing I don't understand about you: Nixon don't have any character. how you could

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

if that is II So the next day I went to the State Department and met a great, great friend. of mine, a great man, really I admire him, the then-Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, Mr. Richard Rubottom. And I said, IIWell, Mr. Rubottom, I'm here

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was there at that one or just at the other one, but [Harry] Belafonte and a whole--you know, you have those names, a high-class group that we had put together. G: Did you contact these people yourself? K: With Richard Adler. Some of them I had to get, others he got

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, the [Johnson] Administration will be forever associated with the credibility gap, the phrase "credibility gap," owing to its public handling of daily news concerning the war. And I think that the Nixon Administration, with all of its flaws and faults

Oral history transcript, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. And yet all the fear and worry and this concern was shared--people have a very erroneous impression, I know Richard Nixon did, that people in the federal bureaucracy are liberal. Many of the people I run into in the federal bureaucracy are quite

Oral history transcript, Lew Wasserman, interview 1 (I), 12/21/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, if you want to put it that way. It won't stand a hitch. Did you have the feeling in 1968 that you could pull it off? W: Yes. In my humble opinion, the President would have carried California in 1968, particularly against Richard Nixon, because, back

Oral history transcript, Robert J. McCloskey, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

will be forever associated with the credibility gap, the phrase "credibility gap," owing to its public handling of daily news concerning the war. And I think that the Nixon Administration, with all of its flaws and faults, indecencies, Nixon's known attitude

Oral history transcript, Fenner Roth, interview 2 (II), 10/11/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Lyndon Johnson and Horace Richards, Vernon Whiteside, Wilton Woods, Bill Deason, Albert Harzke, Walter Grady, and Archie Wiles LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 5 (V), 4/1/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you remember the hotel that you lived at? J: I think it was called the Nixon. It was the old Driscoll Hotel, it seems to me, that we stayed in when we made our brief trip down there to meet his boss. But I believe we lived in--frankly, I don't know
; the Johnsons' first apartment; LBJ being chosen to head the National Youth Administration (NYA) in Texas; LBJ's relationship with Congressman Richard Kleberg; early married life; snow in Washington, D.C.; Maury and Terrell Maverick; Bill White; Welly Hopkins

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

ever remember the name of Lyndon Johnson, when he was still working for I guess it was [Richard] Kleberg in the House. G: Do you recall the first time that you met him? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

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

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 7, 1 November 1975," LBJ Library (Item)

.; O'Neil Ford, architect; Richard Hunt, sculptor; Judith Jamison, dancer; Robert Merrill, opera singer; Joshua Taylor, Director, National Collection of Fme Arts, Smithsonian Institution; and James Wyeth, painter. Summarizer: Kenneth Prescott, Chairman

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 74, January 2001," LBJ Library (Item)

. Then the publisher sub stantially raised the amount of the offer. Ms. Smith's memory suddenly improved; she had done some inter esting things, after all. "l had flown around the world with Malcolm Forbes. I sat next to Richart.I Nixon at Malcolm's funeral. l had

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