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  • Hainoi and Haiphong about six months of last year. He (Senator Fulbright) doesn't seem to give us credit for that. THE PRESIDENT: Well, Nixon has taken note of it. He has accused us of gradualism and stated that we would have ended the war sooner had
  • George Christian Tom Johnson The President Secretary Rusk Secretary Clifford General Maxwell Taylor General Earle Wheeler The President: I want to sit down with Mr. Nixon to see what kind of world he really wants. When he gets the nomination he may
  • before or afterwards. SECRETARY CLIFFORD: The delay We cannot do Publicity has extracted the sting of politics. SECRETARY RUSK: Nixon seem to be comfortable. SECRETARY CLIFFORD: We should say we have· an agreement; we will stop the bombing
  • :00 p.m. President-Elect Nixon] [Papers for] November 14, 1968 Special Cabinet Room Meeting [November 19, 1968 Meeting with Advisors] December 10, 1968 - 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon December 17, 1968 - 1:27 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon [February
  • thing in 1936 and on the farm question, even in the middle of the campaign; He sent for the people • : . P: Oh, we do that all the time.' · I went to Eisenhower the other day across the country. We will be fully briefing Nixon and the others from
  • had recommended Rusk and McNamara to Kennedy. McKelway said he asked Lovett who he voted for and Lovett replied "I voted for Nixon, but it was to keep Schlesinger out of Washington. 11 McKelway also told the President that the last time he
  • -­ 22 or December of 1969, for a month . G: Now, Nixon's Vietnamization was taking hold 0: That's right . And by now, of 1968 from Vietnam to in the fall by this time . of 1968--I came back in April the States, and I covered the political
  • . There wasn't anything that he wouldn't stoop to. F: Do you think that his relationship with Roy Cohn and the Schine fellow was, shall we say, sinister? P: Yes, it was sinister. F: Back to 1960 now, we have a very exciting campaign between Nixon on the one
  • a bi-partisan, non-political stamp on the findings of the commission. stepped out. This has held until a month ago when I The Nixon Administration wanted me out mainly for political reasons, to the best of my knowledge. Mc Well, did this non
  • ; Laurance Rockefeller; Hubert Humphrey; consultant to American Conservation Association; Nixon administration proposed changes in the Council; Udall-LBJ relationship; transition; Hickel's influence with Laurance Rockefeller regarding Citizen
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 G: I knew of the arrangement: that President Eisenhower made with Mr. Nixon, which t might say I knew also had been thoroughly discussed with the Congressional leadership
  • Meeting with LBJ; General Parsons; Bryce Harlow; comparison of Presidents; Arthur Larson; Sputnik, briefing during Eisenhower's illness; U-2 and Geneva Summit; missile gap; Dulles; Nixon's TR to South America; LBJ's TR to Berlin Wall as VP; JFK
  • Nixon may have done, to get to what the law says and what we're here about, what we're about to do. After that happened, I know you were bombarded by people wanting you to please come and do certain types of things for them-- J: I still am. H
  • politically--and you know it was right in front of an election--it would have been a tie vote and Nixon would have untied the vote in opposition to the bill. I made several efforts to get somebody to change their vote. I made a very much stronger effort
  • discussed that also, and we discussed what the country was likely to have to face up to if Mr. Nixon was elected. I used that as another string in the bow in attempting to persuade him that the results of his resignation would be contrary to what he
  • the second spot that Richard Nixon was going to be president. The speaker had an abiding distrust of Mr. Nixon. That was a very negative attitude, I suppose, but it did the trick, the final trick. Many people, of course, influenced him, but that was the final
  • Richard Nixon visits LBJ for morning coffee; Nixon and LBJ discuss New York Times, Westmoreland, China and Vietnam, and upcoming campaign year; LBJ teases Lady Bird about Big Bend trip; LBJ has sore throat; Johnsons to St. Marks Church; LBJ gives
  • they were moving surprising!y fast. On the language matter, he cited a parallel: When President Eisenhower was asked what decisions Vice President Nixon had participated in, he said that if he had a week, he 1 d think of some. The President said he felt sure
  • to have to be tried. The Nixon idea of an urban council is not unlike what Joe Califano has been doing for the last few years, basically pulling together all of the interest of cabinet officers on the domestic side to formulate an approach to urban
  • History of task forces; Commissioners Howe and Keppel; Califano's role; Nixon idea of an urban council; experiences working with LBJ
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Taylor -- III -- 8 leaders mended their ways. Unfortunately, we didn't do it in that way. at least not until the Nixon Administration. G: What about the argument that we hear from some high
  • noted. Maybe because of that is why Latin America willingly accepted President Nixon's idea of emphasizing commerce more and of paying better prices for Latin American products. great enthusiasm. She has accepted that idea with But nevertheless, when
  • public official, the most constructive and understanding one. M: After Johnson went to the Senate and in his later career, did you have any contact with him? V: Well, yes, I had. See, I was defeated by one Richard M. Nixon in 1946, and I believe
  • First meeting LBJ; impressions of LBJ as a Congressman and Senator; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; rural electrification; defeated in 1946 Senate race against Nixon; Cooperative League; meeting Lady Bird; assessment of LBJ's performance
  • a possible opponent ',-Jere W-l() you counting on? a lot of t::d.k early as to--I remember asking Scammon, "Oughtn't the President to decide at least in his own mind whether he ,-?ants to run against l',(,::m.ey or Nixon; and having decided that, 'veIl
  • together in the White House--the night before the inauguration of Nixon--we had a party. He said that he didn't want to hear any of us being quoted in the press as bad-mouthing Nixon, for the simple reason--he gave the analogy of the airplane
  • activities in the activities in the transition process? P: I had contacts with a number of the Nixon aides on sort of a friendly basis. I knew Bryce Harlow very well. We were both Oklahomans, and Bryce had been helpful during our Administration
  • the support of the It finally ended up with a bill to raise the ceiling to $450,000. And then it came before the Congress in the Nixon Administration the first spring. We had the backing of the Nixon Administration from the White House, we were told. We
  • awfully fast, much too fast I thought, but he could make it. And very blunt-speaking, I think that's what attracted Johnson. But it also attracted Nixon, and as I said, the Pakistanis specialized in this. One of my memories is on the around-the-world trip
  • out to old Nixon and thought Nixon was going to make him vice president. I won't get on Connally, I'll tell you. I would, but I don't think I want to do it publicly. G: Was there a legal problem with replacing the state executive committee
  • . Nixon . I think Mr . Meany showed his wisdom there and even Mr . Reuther took the position that � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • ://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 Curry--I--5 here after Nixon had had one. One of the reasons I remember
  • as commander-in-c·hief on the information he had, and I support President Nixon as far as what he's trying to do. I really doubt the wisdom of the day when we cripple the powers of the president to be commander-in-chief of this country. There's something
  • not, if I recall correctly, morning meetings such as I read in the paper that the Nixon ..l.drninistration White House has. F: There was nothing routine about these--every Tuesday or every second Tuesday or something like that? W: I think every once
  • , Johnson, Administration. and Ford. Planning is underway for the Carter Library in Georgia. The site for a Nixon the Lyndon Museum Library has not, at this st::ige, been have gruwn up around it, from its conception early in the Johnson administration
  • to press stories reporting Chairman Mills 1 position on tax reform. Mills seemed reconciled to not putting in a reform bill. He preferred to leave tax reform to President Nixon who would have four years to consider the subject. General Wheeler: In response
  • and the opportunity to honor you and to recall the great strides of the 1960's is worthy and justifiable. However, the hour is late, the needs of the black nation overdue and urgent. Racism under the Administration of Richard Nixon has increased. This gathering
  • , anyhowo I'm sure the Johnson people feel a certain antipathy toward the Nixon people as usurpers, even though they knew for months it was going to happen. R: Yes. Well, when it comes that suddenly-- F: It's just a surrender. R: You are i.n physical
  • a good deal over the years. But, anyhow, the ticket ran very well in Minnesota. We beat [Richard] Nixon rather decisively, whereas we had, eight years later, more trouble. F: Explain to me, for a minute, the DFL. Is it consistently liberal, or does
  • 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
  • . (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
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wallace -- I -- 27 And I believe that the acceptance speech of Mr. Nixon in Miami was influenced by my speech in Miami two
  • of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
  • ; Nixon/Braniff situation; what it was like to work for LBJ.
  • : 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