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Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, of course, as we went on. Then another thing time span now. I'm not talking in any particular But bearing on that subject, it was very inter- esting as we got into the 1960 session. dates were in the Senate. Of course, all of the candi- Nixon

Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

an oceanographic building over here on Key Biscayne--which, by the way, President Nixon's put back in the budget, and I knew he would, having been located at Key Biscayne--and dredging of this harbor and so forth. There was always a continuous dialogue between

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. 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

Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

the President." And so then they took me to my apartment over at Crystal City, and sure enough the next morning they showed up. I went over there, and I talked to Kissinger and Haig; met Nixon briefly, and then went back and talked to them again

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, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

is that probably the election would not have been won if Johnson hadn't gone on the ticket. As you look back on it and realize how strongly Nixon did carry the Midwest and how strongly he did outside of Minnesota in this last election, why you can only conclude
members’ involvement in the 1968 campaign; Walker Report and the 1968 convention; Humphrey-Muskie campaign; DNC; HHH-LBJ relationship during the campaign; Vietnam; Wallace supporters; Nixon campaign; developing an agricultural policy; discussions with JFK

Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. But I think momentum takes you, and I think it is the kind of an operation that men really can't handle too well. ran a good campaign this last time. I watched that. Nixon It was very well run, mechanically and strategically. F: R: Yes, I thought
at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe

Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Nixon--who was Nixon's running mate? G: Lodge. S: Lodge, [Henry] Cabot Lodge. It was a very close race. Sometime in October Mr. Johnson called me and said that--if you will recall he was running both, he got the legislature to pass a law where he

Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, who's downtown now? I think he was; I think he was with Eisenhower--or Nixon. I guess it was Eisenhower. G: Yes. M: He was a good man, there's no question about it. He came from Tennessee, I think, originally. But I never noticed, I just never
welfare amendments; residency requirements; JFK’s Madison Square Garden speech; JFK assassination; 1970 Nixon welfare program; 1972 election; the role of vice presidents; the Mills-Ribicoff bill; Adam Clayton Powell; meat quota bill.

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, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

e p o l i t i c a l r e a s o n s for you to go into certain places. If our polls s h o w e d t h a t the Nixon-Lodge ticket was strong in a c e r t a i n area, we needed h e l p there, we'd either get one o f the candidates in t h e r e or get
Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson

Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, I think, and his wife were there. And we were talking about one thing and another, just socializing, you know, and the subject came up about Nixon, who at that time had just unleashed the B-52 bombers against the North Vietnamese, I mean, really

Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hobby -- I -- 3 President Kennedy. The Post did not support the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, but supported Mr. Nixon in that year. And in 1964 we supported Mr. Johnson. M: So

Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, senators that he knew. I recall that Eisenhower, of course, visited and Vice President Nixon visited. 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ

Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

followed him, the Nixon Administration, for instance, I think that apart from considerations of policy of the U.S. vis-à-vis the world, he had a lot of compassion for the Vietnamese, and the notion of geopolitical considerations. Cold War calculation
-1966 and how he became ambassador to the U.S.; LBJ's and Richard Nixon's efforts relating to Vietnam.

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of my presence. He sort of said, "fine, that sounds good," or something. I don't remember really what he said. I do know what he felt. He felt a very, very firm conviction that Johnson was the man to beat Nixon, and he wanted very much for Johnson to get

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Bradley Peterson came from or anything else. I got along with him fine and still do. I found out some--I think he went to the Nixon White House so I said, oh, that's what the problem was; he was a Republican. But then I went to speak in 1981 to the local

Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: [Alan] Cranston? G: Cranston, and by Congressman [Ronald] Dellums and Congressman [John] Conyers. It doesn't seem to make any sense, but Nixon is determined to try to achieve with nonmilitary means, with American dollars and hired people, what he

Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

group, and this had not been terribly successful. So we felt a good deal of compulsion to redeem the President's pledge, to get this thing finished. F: Or get it done by the Nixon Administration. H: So we commenced work in February. F: Did you

Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

had a better option, in a sense, than Nixon has today. In a way, and Nixon is going to take the option of withdrawal, obviously. I don't think he'll get out on an easy negotiation. Let's hope he does, but I think he will just have to opt

Oral history transcript, James J. Reynolds, interview 3 (III), 2/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to do this and said that he, understood the President's reluctance to have his administration involved in this campaigh and that he'was prepared to submit his resignation, but "e 'felt deeply that the field should not be left to Nixon. He felt

Oral history transcript, Warren Magnuson, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to bed." What was his relationship with Vice President Nixon during this period? Did they get along well? Did he trust Nixon, do you think? M: Oh, I don't think they had much dialogue, contact. loner. Nixon was a He never had any particular contact

Oral history transcript, Sidney P. Marland, interview 1 (I), 2/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Nixon naming me to these councils~-signed by President Johnson. F: Did you see President Johnson at all in these first two appointments? Did he come around? M: Oh, yes. He didn't come around to we went around to him, but US; we certainlyg'ot
; Wilbur Cohen and Elliot Richardson as managers of HEW; proliferation of educational legislation and funding under LBJ and consolidation of same under Nixon.

Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 2 (II), 3/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wore on. M: Oh, he did. president. He did. In fact, he became disenchanted with every He supported Goldwater in 1964 and he supported Nixon in 1968, although he was really for Reagan. nomination he was for him. sioned with Nixon. G: But after

Oral history transcript, Alan S. Boyd, interview 4 (IV), 5/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

into industry for a couple of years . M: Did that work? B: I don't know . December . It was set up in October, and we submitted a report in It was left for President Nixon . There was no way to put it into effect . M: Just a shot in the dark . Air Show

Oral history transcript, J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., interview 1 (I), 2/5/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that took that attitude I felt Senator Byrd was not going to go along with that ticket, even though with Lyndon Johnson on it. And, as you know, he didn't. B: Do you figure, incidentally, that made the difference in Virginia? recall, Nixon carried

Oral history transcript, Frank Stanton, interview 3 (III), 8/26/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, but it was at ABC studio, here in New York, with Kennedy and Nixon, and that was the last debate. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
LBJ's refusal to participate in a debate; JFK and Richard Nixon's second, third, and fourth debates; LBJ seeking Stanton's advice on improving his television appearances; LBJ using a lavaliere microphone; Morley Safer's 1965 broadcast depicting

Oral history transcript, John G. Tower, interview 1 (I), 8/8/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

for the Nixon-Lodge ticket? T: Well, the way we did it was I always in making my speeches advocated Nixon-Lodge, as well as my own candidacy. Then I traveled with the candidates when they were in the state. They both embraced me, for whatever political

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 7 (VII), 9/19/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

always had to look out at the beginning of a new session for a fight on Rule 22, and Nixon was always on the lookout for a way to make himself a hero with those who wanted to change Rule 22. Nixon was really, I think, trying--it was assumed that he

Oral history transcript, James A. Lovell, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

at this physical fitness ' awards program, we had about ninety-five hundred winners throughout the country in the schools. A continuation of this program of course went on through President Nixon's Administration last year, which I'd say in 1970, [and] we had

Oral history transcript, Arthur J. Goldberg, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

President's Daily Diary entry, 11/1/1968 (Item)

mjd r an d Jim Jone s wm'k>c6iK3&fc6X(is:sk whil e talkin g t o Watson . President place d a cal l t o Sen . Joh n Towe r i n Fort Worth , Texas , bu t Tower s wa s a t a par k with Richar d Nixon attendin g a rally; secretary offere d to tr y t o ge

Folder, "February 7, 1968 - 12:29 p.m. National Security Council Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 2 (Item)

and radar c~assifi cation instructions we re losto The President: There are many charges corning across the tickers. You should set up a team of people to keep watch on these charges by people like Nixon and Romney and answer them quickly before they become

Folder, "[September 5, 1967 - 1:05 p.m. Tuesday Luncheon]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 2 (Item)

that the President heard it and is displeased. The President talked about the poll in yesterday's Washington Post front page story which showed the President defeating Romney and Nixon whether George Wallace was in or out of the race. He pointed out that last

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