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  • people who thought that in effect Texas had been sold out by Lyndon Johnson going on the ticket? C: Well, we had some people who had supported Mr. Johnson for the nomination who now made it plain they were going to vote for Richard Nixon for President
  • . There wasn't any lack of loyalty to Johnson, it was just an old relationship which kept going. G: How about LBJ and Nixon during this campaign? S: (Laughter) I don't know anything about it. any intention of helping Johnson. I don't think Nixon had LBJ
  • it was because they were more supportive of agriculture. The South wasn't very industrialized thirty or forty years ago, so they had to depend more on agriculture. I had a warm relationship with southerners all the years I've been here. Senator [Richard
  • David Eisenhower, grandson of Presideni Dwight Eisenhower. He sold a copy of it to then-Vice President Richard Nixon for fifteen cents. He has been writing ever since. Library staffers, docents and guests from the University assembled in the Library
  • fizzled out. I don't know exactly when and how it lost all its steam; I don't remember. But at any rate, the Republican one was over in rather quick time with [Dwight] Eisenhower nominated and [Richard] Nixon nominated for the vice presidency
  • ADMINISTRATION NA FORM 1429 (6-85) FOREIGN POLICY GROUP MEETffiG \~' ~ .:·· October 29, 1968 THOSE ATTENDING: The President Secretary Rusk Secretary Clifford General Abrams General Wheeler Richard Helms Walt Rostow Harry McPherson George Christian Tom Johnson
  • ] Stennis and so forth, some of the older senators. Thi sis a story that was told to me once by a person who worked for Senator [Richard] Russell. It seems as if a constituent from Georgia had come to see this man on Senator Russell's staff with some
  • with six columnists and commentators on the White House balcony on August 11, 1967. Those attending were: The President Bill White Richard Wilson Roscoe Drummond John Chancellor Bill Lawrence Dan Rather George Christian Walt Rostow Bob Fleming The President
  • 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
  • communities throughout this country and did some sizing up of what the leadership was saying is needed. He saw those reports, wanted them. If Nixon were to do that today, it would be a great moment to him. I don't think there's any compassion in the man
  • ';lntry. After the 2.0th President I . . h. . Nixon speaks for th,. country and President Johnson supports im in every um $1.) (f,..j.,' ~r way he _c an. There rill be timely r:flccilugs with Ambassador Murphy now, and later with the s1cretary o~ Stat
  • CHRISTIAN DISCUSSES HIS RESPONSE TO PRESS CONCERNING MISINTERPRETATION OF NIXON'S STATEMENT ANNOUNCING APPOINTMENT OF ROBERT MURPHY AS NIXON'S LIAISON DURING TRANSITION, INCLUDING STORY THAT LBJ WAS IRRITATED WITH NIXON
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD M. SCAMMON (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • See all online interviews with Richard M. Scammon
  • Scammon, Richard M. (Richard Montgomery), 1915-2001
  • Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Richard M. Scammon
  • was under an umbrella, but not wanting to impose on the crowd. MG: He had with him--in addition to yourself and Busby, Dick [Richard] Nelson, Willis Hurst, and Bob [Robert E.] Waldron went along. G: Yes. MG: Hurst was his physician, of course. G
  • their hands over the first volume of Robert A. Caro's hostile biography ... Some Washington reporters gasp. Sure, there was much lo attack. But was thi the man we watched In Congress and the White House all those years? How did the nation survive? - Richard L
  • , all the attacks on the Nixon Administration, all the efforts for equal time, all we've discussed, were not costly. Those are areas you could be extremely active in without incurring additional debt. So within those financial restrictions, I did
  • reforms; McGovern's 1972 campaign financing; O'Brien's efforts to attack Richard Nixon; the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) scandal; how O'Brien became chairman of the 1972 Democratic National Convention; Daley's reaction to his
  • , Alvia J. Wardlaw Not Pictured: Radcliffe Baile);, John T. Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Ray Charles, Michael Cummings, Colette Gaiter, Richard Gary, Greg Henry, Jacob Lawrence, Steiphen Marc, Erick M. Murray, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, John T
  • Date June White House Day 15, 1966 Wednesday Activity (include visited by) Breakfast Mrs. Johnson departed for her western trip Mrs. Arthur Krim and Mr^. and Mrs. Robert Benjamin who were houseguests last night departed. Mayor Richard Daley
  • of the original ones. We thought we had coordinated that more with the rest of the institutes, but when Benno Schmidt--I can't remember whose administration it was-was very active--I think it was in the Kennedy Administration, I'm not sure. No, it was in Nixon's
  • a candidate from the West as a vice president . I think Mr . Johnson was right . I honestly believe, and the facts haven't shown otherwise, that John went back to the Nixon group to become vice president, and then Agnew's financial immorality blew up
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ON PLANS FOR PROGRESS SPEECH ON FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT OF MINORITIES; JENKINS REPORTS ON NAPOLITAN POLL ON WILLIAM SCRANTON, NELSON ROCKEFELLER, NIXON, GOLDWATER; ROWLAND EVANS; POLL RESULTS BASED ON ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS
  • LBJ DISCUSSES USIA FILM; PRESS STORY ON BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION; WALTER REUTHER'S DEMANDS FOR WAGE INCREASES; GENERAL MOTORS; REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES: GOLDWATER, ROCKEFELLER, NIXON, SCRANTON; SALE OF LOCKHEED PLANE
  • CATTLEMEN'S CONCERNS ABOUT BEEF PRICES; DOD MEAT PURCHASES; ANDREW O'MEARA; DISCUSSION OF WILLIAM WESTMORELAND AS REPLACEMENT FOR HENRY CABOT LODGE AS AMBASSADOR TO VIETNAM; NIXON'S CRITICISM OF VIETNAM POLICY; PANAMA; CUBA; GUANTANAMO MILITARY BASE
  • PRESS GUIDANCE FOR FINAL WEEKS OF CAMPAIGN; HECKLING OF LADY BIRD JOHNSON ON WHISTLESTOP TRIP; LBJ'S NEW ORLEANS SPEECH; DAVID RABINOVITZ WISCONSIN JUDGESHIP; HARRIS POLL; NIXON'S STATEMENTS; WHISTLESTOP PRESS COVERAGE; LUCI JOHNSON'S CAMPAIGN
  • HHH REPORTS ON CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES; IOWA, GEORGIA POLITICS; NIXON'S REMARKS ON VIETNAM; PRESIDENTIAL PROTECTION IN CAMPAIGN; CONGRESSIONAL RECESS, NOT ADJOURNMENT, TO SAVE MEDICARE BILL; ETHICS CHARGES AGAINST GOLDWATER, MILLER; BOBBY BAKER
  • LBJ ASKS ABOUT SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL; DISCUSSION OF REAPPOINTING GLENN SEABORG TO TWO-YEAR TERM AND JAMES RAMEY TO FIVE-YEAR TERM TO AEC; SEABORG'S RELUCTANCE TO SERVE FIVE-YEAR TERM IF NIXON IS ELECTED
  • LBJ REVIEWS RECENT PEACE TALKS WITH NORTH VIETNAM; US CONDITIONS FOR BOMBING HALT; EFFECT OF PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ON TALKS; NIXON'S ASSOCIATES' CONTACTS WITH SOUTH, NORTH VIETNAM; APPROVAL OF BOMBING HALT OF NORTH VIETNAM BY MILITARY, CREIGHTON
  • VIETNAM PEACE TALKS, BOMBING HALT; ROLE OF USSR IN TALKS; LBJ COMPLAINS ABOUT STATEMENTS BY NIXON AND MELVIN LAIRD, REPUBLICAN CONTACTS WITH SOUTH, NORTH VIETNAM; US CONDITIONS FOR BOMBING HALT; DIRKSEN QUESTIONS EFFECT OF HALT ON PRESIDENTIAL
  • MCNAMARA PRAISES LBJ'S SPEECH ANNOUNCING VIETNAM BOMBING HALT; DISCUSSION OF EFFECTIVENESS OF CREIGHTON ABRAMS, ELLSWORTH BUNKER; EFFECT OF STATEMENTS, ACTIVITIES OF HHH AND NIXON ON PEACE TALKS; RELUCTANCE OF SOUTH VIETNAM TO JOIN PEACE TALKS
  • CLARK CLIFFORD SUGGESTS THAT HE TALK DIRECTLY WITH DEAN RUSK ABOUT HOW TO RESPOND TO SAVILLE DAVIS' INQUIRIES ABOUT NIXON ASSOCIATES' CONTACTS WITH SOUTH VIETNAM; LBJ SAYS HE WILL SAY NOTHING AND THAT WALT ROSTOW WILL NOT MEET WITH DAVIS
  • YARBOROUGH SAYS PRESS REPORT THAT HE BELIEVES LBJ WILL RUN AGAINST HIM IN 1970 IS UNTRUE; LBJ JOKES ABOUT REPORT, TELLS STORY ABOUT TEXAS POSTMASTER; HHH RALLY IN HOUSTON; PRESS REPORT JOHN CONNALLY BACKS NIXON; POLL SHOWING INCREASED SUPPORT
  • "RE MTG W/NIXON, HARRIMAN-VANCE, PLANS FOR HONOLULU, RUSK MTG W/PM'S"; "TRANSCRIBED-YB"; CONTINUES FROM PREVIOUS RECORDING
  • STATUS OF MUSIC CORPORATION OF AMERICA MERGER WITH WESTINGHOUSE; LBJ SAYS NIXON RECOMMENDS LBJ APPOINT THOMAS DEWEY AS SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE; JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS; CLARK'S FUTURE; STROM THURMOND'S PROPOSED DEAL ON BAREFOOT SANDERS' NOMINATION
  • LBJ CONTINUES READING TRANSCRIPT OF 9/30/68 CONVERSATION WITH NIXON ABOUT US CONDITIONS FOR VIETNAM BOMBING HALT AT PARIS PEACE TALKS; RUSK RECOMMENDS SEPARATE BRIEFINGS FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS
  • LBJ ASKS RUSK'S VIEWS ON PROGRESS AT PARIS PEACE TALKS; PRESS LEAKS; ALLEGED US DIFFERENCES WITH SAIGON; FUNDS FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AT WEIZMANN INSTITUTE IN ISRAEL; NIXON'S POSITION ON VIETNAM; ABBA EBAN VISIT; SALE OF PHANTOM JETS TO ISRAEL
  • , Senator Richard Russell had agreed to, in the event that anything happened that President Johnson couldn't do it. the presentation. President Johnson agreed to make I've forgotten who was--I think it was Ken O'Donnell-- President's Johnson's
  • , and that with the divisions in the party, that Richard Nixon was absolutely a cinch to be elected and that unless he would consent to go on the ticket, then the ball game was over. That's how that happened. The next visitor in the room was former Governor of Texas, John
  • this, Nixon took that trip to South America. R: Yes. The one to Venezuela? 28 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • . [Fritz] Lanham, and Mr. [Joseph] Mansfield, and Mr. [Richard] Kleberg, and Mr. [Milton] West . . . At least, I'm sure those members voted for Mr. Thomas. by the seniority rule. They believed in it. They stuck They themselves were products