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Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 4 (IV), 11/10/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things Teddy said about anybody are you and Nixon. would see him. You two never Now Nixon sees him, and he thinks he's a great hero. You can take Teddy into camp in fifteen minutes." Johnson said, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • ; 1968 convention; Anna Chennault and Nixon; LBJ and the Kennedy people
Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that bill. I well recall that Pat McNamara, whom I later succeeded in the Senate, was one of the conferees at the time. Then, I also remember flying out to Ann Arbor as a congressman on the president's plane after Mr. Johnson became president. He
  • LBJ as Senate Majority Leader in 1959 when the Landrum-Griffin Act passed; JFK as floor manager; May 1966 Pat McNamara died and Griffin succeeded him in the Senate; Michigan delegation opposing LBJ as VP because he wasn’t strong on labor or civil
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: GOVERNOR PAT BROWN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ DATE: F: More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
  • Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
Oral history transcript, Merrell F. "Pop" Small, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and Nixon was elected vice president. He was senator and was completing his first two years of a six-year term, and [Earl] Warren appointed Tom Kuchel in December of 1952 for two years. That's our law. He could only appoint until the next general election
  • to state controller and U.S. senator; Small's work as departmental secretary in the California governor's office; Kuchel's involvement with the Davis-Bacon Act; Richard Nixon's personality; the relationship between Kuchel, Nixon and William Knowland
Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • to California, attended the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford Law School in the forties. 0: Right. B: Law practice in San Mateo, active in politics in California. You had important positions in the Stevenson campaign there in '56 and in Pat
  • Biographical information; Stevenson campaign; Pat Brown campaign; Washington in 1959-1960; Statler Hotel party to impress Dutton; LBJ, Rayburn Bobby Baker all for California votes; Brown on “Meet the Press” in 1959 said LBJ was too conservative
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Governor, the big interest of course in '62 was your campaign against Richard Nixon, and the feeling that Richard Nixon was using California as a testing ground for a comeback for the Presidency . I wondered if you would talk a little bit about the issue
  • See all online interviews with Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
  • Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz
  • Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown
Telephone conversation # 610, sound recording, LBJ and JOHN STEELE, 12/20/1963, 7:59PM (Item)
  • STEELE DISCUSSES LIFE MAGAZINE STORY HE IS WRITING ON REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES INCLUDING WILLIAM SCRANTON, RICHARD NIXON, BARRY GOLDWATER; DISCUSSION OF LATEST NATIONAL AND TEXAS POLLS; LBJ REFERS TO NIXON'S 1962 CALIFORNIA PRESS
Telephone conversation # 11015, sound recording, LBJ and WILLIAM FULBRIGHT, 11/5/1966, 5:14PM (Item)
  • FULBRIGHT'S CAMPAIGN PLANS; LBJ ASKS FULBRIGHT TO CALL BILL MOYERS TO DISCUSS FULBRIGHT POSSIBLY REBUTTING RICHARD NIXON'S CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY, MANILA CONFERENCE; FULBRIGHT EXPRESSES CONCERN THAT A RESPONSE WILL GIVE NIXON MORE PUBLICITY
Telephone conversation # 13612, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD RUSSELL, 10/30/1968, 10:25AM (Item)
  • NIXON'S CONTACTS WITH SOUTH VIETNAM GOVT; MELVIN LAIRD; JOHN MITCHELL; ANNA CHENNAULT; HISTORY OF BOMBING HALT NEGOTIATIONS; CREIGHTON ABRAMS' SUPPORT FOR HALT; NIXON'S STATEMENT URGING SOVIETS, OTHERS JOIN TALKS; DELAY IN SOUTH VIETNAM GOVT JOINING
Telephone conversation # 13708, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE SMATHERS, 11/3/1968, 1:25PM (Item)
  • SMATHERS' TALK WITH UNNAMED PERSON (RICHARD NIXON) ON REPORTS THAT JOHN TOWER, ANNA CHENNAULT ENCOURAGED SOUTH VIETNAM NOT TO JOIN PEACE TALKS; LBJ EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT NIXON CAMPAIGN'S COMMENTS, REVIEWS NEGOTIATIONS AND REPORTS OF CHENNAULT'S
Telephone conversation # 13711, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 11/3/1968, 2:18PM (Item)
  • LBJ REPORTS ON HIS TALKS WITH GEORGE SMATHERS, RICHARD NIXON ABOUT NIXON'S ASSOCIATES ENCOURAGING SOUTH VIETNAM NOT TO JOIN PEACE TALKS; CHARGE THAT LBJ'S MOTIVES IN HALTING BOMBING ARE POLITICAL; SPIRO AGNEW'S ROLE IN CONTACTS WITH SOUTH VIETNAM
Telephone conversation # 13728, sound recording, LBJ and DEAN RUSK, 11/11/1968, 10:21AM (Item)
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK IF RICHARD NIXON SHOULD TAKE ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ENCOURAGE SOUTH VIETNAM TO JOIN PARIS PEACE TALKS; QUESTION OF NIXON, MIKE MANSFIELD, OTHERS GOING TO SAIGON OR PARIS; TRANSITION ARRANGEMENTS; NYT STORY ON RESUMING ARMS TALKS WITH USSR
Telephone conversation # 13741, sound recording, LBJ and RICHARD HELMS, 11/15/1968, 8:05PM (Item)
  • HELMS TELLS LBJ THAT RICHARD NIXON HAS ASKED HELMS TO REMAIN AS CIA DIRECTOR; LBJ PRAISES HELMS, REQUESTS THAT NIXON HAVE SOMEONE BRIEF LBJ PERIODICALLY JUST AS LBJ HAD SOMEONE BRIEF DWIGHT EISENHOWER AND HARRY TRUMAN, DISCUSSES ROLE OF FORMER
Telephone conversation # 13750, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE SMATHERS, 11/21/1968, 3:33PM (Item)
  • "FIRST 1/2 ONE CALL"; "SECOND 1/2 IMPORTANT (NIXON)"; "22 NOV 5:50PM TOP THEN BOTTOM"; "NIXON" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING AND ON NEXT RECORDING
Telephone conversation # 13754, sound recording, LBJ and ABE FEINBERG, 11/22/1968, 8:56AM (Item)
  • "FIRST 1/2 ONE CALL"; "SECOND 1/2 IMPORTANT (NIXON)"; "22 NOV 5:50PM TOP THEN BOTTOM"; "NIXON" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN
Telephone conversation # 13755, sound recording, LBJ and TELEPHONE OPERATOR, 11/22/1968, 8:59AM (Item)
  • "FIRST 1/2 ONE CALL"; "SECOND 1/2 IMPORTANT (NIXON)"; "22 NOV 5:50PM TOP THEN BOTTOM"; "NIXON" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; LBJ IS ON HOLD THROUGHOUT MOST OF CALL BUT SPEAKS BRIEFLY WITH UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN WHILE ON HOLD; SMALL CHILD IS AUDIBLE
Telephone conversation # 13756, sound recording, LBJ and HARRY MCPHERSON, 11/22/1968, 9:03AM (Item)
  • "FIRST 1/2 ONE CALL"; "SECOND 1/2 IMPORTANT (NIXON)"; "22 NOV 5:50PM TOP THEN BOTTOM"; "NIXON" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT; SMALL CHILD IS AUDIBLE IN BACKGROUND
Telephone conversation # 13757, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE SMATHERS, 11/22/1968, 12:24PM (Item)
  • SMATHERS SAYS HE TALKED WITH RICHARD NIXON ABOUT LBJ'S RESPONSE TO NIXON'S OFFER TO APPOINT HHH AS UN AMBASSADOR; LBJ SAYS HE WILL CALL SMATHERS AFTER LBJ MEETS WITH HHH TODAY; SMATHERS' WISH TO BE APPOINTED TO PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS BOARD OR ANOTHER
Telephone conversation # 13758, sound recording, LBJ and STUART LONG, 11/22/1968, 5:20PM (Item)
  • "FIRST 1/2 ONE CALL"; "SECOND 1/2 IMPORTANT (NIXON)"; "22 NOV 5:50PM TOP THEN BOTTOM"; "NIXON" WRITTEN ON DICTABELT
Telephone conversation # 13763, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE SMATHERS, 11/23/1968, 1:08PM (Item)
  • LBJ DISCUSSES HIS MEETING WITH HHH ON RICHARD NIXON'S OFFER TO NAME HHH UN AMBASSADOR, HHH'S FUTURE PLANS; LBJ PRAISES ROBERT MURPHY, DISCUSSES PROBLEMS OF PRESIDENCY, NEED FOR NIXON TO HAVE STRONG FOREIGN POLICY ADVISERS; ANNA CHENNAULT
Telephone conversation # 13801, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY "SCOOP" JACKSON, 12/1/1968, 6:30PM (Item)
  • JACKSON SAYS RICHARD NIXON HAS ASKED HIM TO BE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE; LBJ PRAISES JACKSON, ENCOURAGES HIM TO TAKE JOB; JACKSON SAYS HE IS RELUCTANT, EXPRESSES CONCERN ABOUT HIS SENATE SUCCESSOR, RECOMMENDS NIXON REAPPOINT CLARK CLIFFORD; NELSON
Telephone conversation # 13802, sound recording, LBJ and HENRY "SCOOP" JACKSON, 12/1/1968, 6:30PM (Item)
  • RICHARD NIXON'S OFFER TO APPOINT JACKSON SECRETARY OF DEFENSE; LBJ ENCOURAGES JACKSON TO ACCEPT, DISCUSSES IMPORTANCE OF JOB; NIXON'S SECRETARY OF STATE; LBJ TELLS HELEN JACKSON THAT HER HUSBAND SHOULD ACCEPT JOB, GREETS JACKSON'S SISTER GERTRUDE
Telephone conversation # 13901, sound recording, LBJ and DAVID KENNEDY, 1/1/1969, 1:00PM (Item)
  • TREASURY SECRETARY DESIGNATE DAVID KENNEDY REPORTS ON HIS TALK WITH RICHARD NIXON IN WHICH KENNEDY RELAYED DISCUSSION HE AND LBJ HAD ABOUT FEDERAL BUDGET YESTERDAY, SAYS NIXON FEELS IT IS RESPONSIBLE BUDGET, DOUBTS SURTAX CAN BE REPEALED
Telephone conversation # 13549, sound recording, LBJ and EVERETT DIRKSEN, 10/16/1968, 1:40PM (Item)
  • DIRKSEN SAYS NIXON HEADQUARTERS HAS ASKED HIM ABOUT VIETNAM PEACE TALKS, ASKS LBJ ABOUT PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS; LBJ SAYS THERE HAS BEEN NO BREAKTHROUGH, DISCUSSES HIS CONFERENCE CALL TO HHH, RICHARD NIXON AND GEORGE WALLACE TO BRIEF THEM
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 5 (V), 4/9/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • in 1943 in the riot of World War II, which was incidentally much more of a race riot than the riot of 1967, which was what Pat Moynihan would call an untermenschen riot--a real explosion of the ghetto against the ghetto with whites almost a secondary
  • /31 announcement; HHH’s attempt to go both ways on Vietnam; LBJ’s opinion of Nixon; transition period; Pat Moynihan; LBJ angered by some cabinet members at the end of his term; feelings about leaving the administration.
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 24, 1 January 1982," LBJ Library (Item)
  • Nixon borrowed from Roosevelt's experience with price controls. Rccemly, a former Nixon cabinet officer told me that he was often struck at cabinet meetings by the way that Nixon tried to copy FDR's style. When Jimmy arler launched his Presidential cam­
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it in to me." Well, I did know, and some of what I knew about Stu shouldn't have been written. I knew lots. So I sat down and I patted my typewriter, and I said, "Write, honey." home at night. I sat down and wrote that at And I wrote it and I wrote
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 8/10/1968 (Item)
  • Sat, Aug 10 Dictated at the ranch August 2-17, 1968 1. 10:30a Secretary Rusk, Director Helms, Amb. "Vance arrived to front lawn w/ Pres 2. 12:00n Mr. Nixo n arrived 1:15p LUNCH - Mrs. J Nixon, Agnew 3. Rusk , Helms , Vanc e Nixon aides: Bob
Telephone conversation # 13353, sound recording, LBJ and HUBERT HUMPHREY, 8/31/1968, 9:18AM? (Item)
  • "? NEED TO IDENTIFY"; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN; SLIP, DAILY DIARY, WH OPS LOG LIST CALL TO HHH AT 10:18A (EASTERN TIME) BUT CALL WAS RECORDED ON DICTABELT BEFORE 9:30A CENTRAL TIME CALL TO RICHARD NIXON; HHH IS ALMOST INAUDIBLE
  • HHH DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC VIETNAM PLATFORM AND HIS STATEMENT TO PRESS ABOUT NEED FOR HHH, NIXON TO MAINTAIN UNITY ON VIETNAM POLICY DURING CAMPAIGN; LBJ DISCUSSES POSSIBLE JOINT STATEMENT BY NIXON, HHH ON VIETNAM TO BE RELAYED TO HANOI AT PARIS PEACE
Telephone conversation # 13547, sound recording, CONFERENCE CALL (with LBJ), 10/16/1968, 11:41AM (Item)
  • RICHARD NIXON
  • "CONFERENCE CALL"; "TO HON HUBERT HUMPHREY, HON RICHARD NIXON, HON GEORGE WALLACE"; CONTINUES ON NEXT RECORDING; LBJ IS MEETING WITH WALT ROSTOW AT TIME OF CALL AND SPEAKS WITH HIM BEFORE CONFERENCE CALL; LBJ IS ON SPEAKERPHONE AND IS ON HOLD 0:40
  • Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Oral history transcript, William M. Colmer, interview 1 (I), 5/5/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • be not But again I could say that about Jack Kennedy or -F: That's just par for the course. C: Nixon and everybody else. Nixon, I remember when he was placed on the old Un-American Activities Committee. As a matter of fact, I told him since he's been
Lady Bird Johnson's Daily Diary entry, 1/20/1969 (Item)
  • and Mrs. Nixon, Senator Dirksen, Speaker McCormack, Vice President and Mrs. Humphrey, Vice President-elect and Mrs. Agnew, Senator Mansfield, Congressman G. Ford, Senator Jordan, Congressman Carl Albert, Lynda, Luci, Ambassador Leonard Marks, Mr. and Mrs
Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 5 (V), 4/7/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was anticipating that Hubert Humphrey was going to foul up his Vietnam negotiations, and he said to me directly, "I do not want you to work in the Humphrey campaign." And I told him how wrong I felt that was, that any lack of helping Hubert meant helping Nixon
Oral history transcript, Ralph G. Newman, interview 1 (I), 9/2/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Newman -- I -- 7 And you've got to remember one thing. This is true now and has been true in this whole controversy with Nixon's papers. The moment a man becomes
  • on donations; 1969 tax law; physical move of material to Austin; typical appraisal workday; comparison of working conditions on LBJ and Nixon papers; controversial Nixon deed of gift; President Eisenhower memorandum; personal association with LBJ; Pentagon
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/25/1968 (Wednesday) (Item)
  • to a precious few, less than a month now, and stands rise in front of us for the inaugural of President Nixon, i t is almost funny how more and more you think of the things you ought to do while you're s t i l l in the White House. many we have done. family
  • Christmas Day; telephone calls; Father Kaifer hold mass in Lincoln Room; special blessings for Chuck Robb & Pat Nugent in Vietnam; family opens more presents; Johnsons to open house at Clark Clifford's; LBJ lays down to rest; more telephone calls
Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • 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
Oral history transcript, D.B. Hardeman, interview 2 (II), 3/12/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 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
Reference File, "Dogs (Johnson family's)" (Item)
  • a bridemaid's outfit for him, but don't believe he was around when Luci and Pat married. Answer: Right. I found Yuki abandoned at a Johnson City filling station, at Thanksgiving 1966. Charmed by this tale?.•.• when Candidate Nixon flew to the LBJ Ranch
Reference File, "Dogs (Johnson family's)" (Item)
  • a bridemaid's outfit for him, but don't believe he was around when Luci and Pat married. Answer: Right. I found Yuki abandoned at a Johnson City filling station, at Thanksgiving 1966. Charmed by this tale?.•.• when Candidate Nixon flew to the LBJ Ranch
Folder, "Notes and Transcripts of Johnson Conversations, February, 1960," Telephone Transcripts, Office Files of Walter Jenkins, Box 1 (Item)
  • 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