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  • . in my opinion. Julie Eisenho\\er, daughter or former Pr sident and Mr . Richard Nixon. talked about Pat Nixon; TJ,e l. n· told Story, her poignant memoir of her mother. I thmk her particular contrihut1un - one that she will prohahly be most rcmemhercd
  • think it's one of the first, you know, one of the few, of our programs that they were able to knock out. I mean had Model Cities had another two years under its belt by the time Richard Nixon became president with, you know, seventy cities participating
  • of the 1960 election when Johnson was the running mate for John Kennedy on the Democratic ticket, and the result of that--the Democratic candidate got forty-six thousand, roughly, more votes than the Republican candidate, who was Richard Nixon, and there were
  • See all online interviews with Richard Morehead
  • Morehead, Richard
  • Oral history transcript, Richard Morehead, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1987, by Christie L. Bourgeois
  • Richard Morehead
  • of an overture about the importance of the arts. Certainly there wasn't an Abe Fortas nor a Leonard Garment, who served the same kind of purpose under Richard Nixon. T: I guess Mrs. [Joan] Mondale did, then, under-- 14 LBJ Presidential Library http
  • support for the arts in return for support for a civil rights bill; gaining support from influential people such as John Fogarty; efforts to get legislation passed that session; Richard Goodwin's chances of becoming chairman of the NEA; members of LBJ's
  • for all of us." Memories of a Royal ·visit By Harry Middleton, LBJ Lihrary and Mmeum Direcl/lr, E111erit11.1· Queen Elizabeth'sGoldenJubileecal.led to mind her trip to Austin in May, 1991. Governor Ann Richards was host­ ess to Lbe royal visit. She
  • Hill was the attorney general of Texas at the time, and John Hill said to me one day, he said, "I told people before you came on the television to give your statement about Richard Nixon, I said 'Barbara will have her statement based in fact and law
  • 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
  • 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
  • their annual meeting at the Library at the time of the opening of the World War II exln'bition. Standing are: Ralph Bledsoe, Reagan Library; John Taylor, Nixon Library; Ben Zobrist, Truman Library; Richard Norton Smith, Hoover Library; John Fawcett, Assistant
  • and at the Democratic conventions became more and more precarious. I'm told that Richard Russell, the able leader of the Southern conservatives, has said tm t they could win battles, but that they were losing the war. This is perhaps enough, but it needs to be stated
  • /oh Hoffman -- II -- 4 relationship. He had great respect for Mr. Sam, and great affection, I think. G: I get the impression that after he moved to the Senate he also had a similar relationship with Richard Russell, the chairman of the Armed
  • of the Senate. K: You can tell me again. S: Well, this was still at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. wait a minute, let's see, this was 1960. That was Eisenhower, yes. Nixon was Vice President and he was not favorably disposed toward Medicare
  • by Emotionalism By (;F,ORGE H. HALL Of the Po~t-Di~pa1t,h St•"• VICE PRESIDENT NIXON'S proposed new policy in the Formosa Strait has re­ opened an emotion-charged issue that the American people never have been able tn consider dispassionately. I ts roots extend
  • Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam
  • in on discussions between Johnson and Senator [Richard] Russell, but Senator George, you know, was up pretty high for an administrative assistant to be fooling with. And of course I had a different relationship with Senator Russell because I had worked in his
  • been Admiral [Richard Evelyn] Byrd, 14 LBJ Presidential Library http://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
  • the day of LBJ's acceptance of the vice-presidential nomination; why LBJ accepted the nomination and Mrs. Johnson's reaction to it; animosity between LBJ and Richard Nixon.
  • ! Bill Fulbright and I did a little maneuvering in opposition to him, but he won, as usual. But he was pretty sore at me for a long while there. F: Were you aware of any special circumstances why Richard Russell, who was more or less responsible for his
  • think that he elected John Kennedy; as a matter of fact I know he did. Without him, I don't think Kennedy would have been elected. Of course, without Mayor [Richard] Daley, he wouldn't have been elected either. (Laughter) But Johnson lent some balance
  • -raising for Humphrey in Texas; possible Democratic presidential nominees for 1980; Humphrey's refusal to publicize information about Anna Chennault's dealings with Richard Nixon and the South Vietnamese government in 1968; Democratic Party finances
  • 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
  • had. But as I looked at the landscape, Stevenson had been defeated twice. I felt this was fatal. Our problem was to oust the incumbent Administration, to beat Richard Nixon at that time, who obviously had the advantages that the ins had. I felt
  • that that was one of the reasons that President Johnson disliked Richard Nixon, because of his campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas. M: I hope that was the reason, but he sure as hell didn't like him. But after a man becomes president and he still lives [after
  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
  • See all online interviews with Richard H. Nelson
  • Nelson, Richard Henry, 1939-2000
  • Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Richard H. Nelson
  • advance exploration. But for some reason he just cut himself off from almost everybody that could have given him any decent advice on it. G: [Richard] Russell referred to this tactic as procedure in the Senate. 11 a lynching of orderly 11 R: Right
  • ; LBJ announces; the Addison's Disease story; national convention in Los Angeles’ LBJ accepts the VP nomination; Rayburn and Nixon; Connally and LBJ; RFK; Acapulco trip; LBJ’s contribution to the ticket; the Jewish vote; the Adolphus Hotel incident
  • MEETING WITH THE TUESDAY LUNCH GROUP, OCTOBER 15, 1968 THOSE ATTENDING THE MEETING WERE: The President Secretary Clifford Secretary Rusk Genera 1 Wheeler CIA Director Richard Helms Walt Rostow GeorgeChristian Tom Johnson The President: Senator Mansfield
  • : No. G: Okay. Anything on any of the visitors? I think Vice President Nixon visited one day. V: I remember Bill Rogers coming to see him. G: Anything in particular on that? V: No, just he was very handsome; that's what I noticed. (Laughter) G
  • this nation's all about, and who understand the 6 problems we face. And who get there without just passing a lit­ mus t st of party loyalty. "There haven't really been many presidents in our lifetime who've done so," Strauss said. Franklin Roosevelt, Richard
  • Among lssuc Numb-er LXXI April 30, I 999 Famed Photographer Duncan on Exhibit The blank stare of a weary Khe Sanh defender ... the raised fist of a combative Richard M. Nixon ... the Japanese surrender aboard the U. .S. Missouri ... a jubilant
  • ; Senator [Richard] Russell from Georgia and Senator [Theodore] Green, an old gentleman about two thousand years old from Rhode Island, and Hubert Humphrey on the balls of his feet, bouncing. At any rate, I was a sensational hit and Senator Johnson was just
  • and arranging to work for him in Texas; Faulk’s activities during the McCarthy period; Faulk emceeing Washington D.C. events; Sam Rayburn; Richard Nixon; O.P. “Bob” Bobbitt; a supposed lawsuit against Texas Broadcasting Corporation; dispute with LBJ regarding
  • at the time, but within a few months the same sort of situation was revealed about Richard Nixon in a campaign for the vice presidency when he was running wtth President Eisenhower. I knew then how sagacious Mrs. Johnson was and how much smarter she
  • to win an election against tough odds--Richard Nixon, who was a smart clever man. I came to appreciate both his leadership style and even the content of what he was doing. I thought, in later years, that once elected, he made a series of mistakes
  • of the old Cannon Building; there you had a three-room office. I was fortunate in getting up to the fifth floor. And along one wing, the wing that goes down First Street, was a fellow by the name of Richard Nixon, who came here two years after I did
  • it briefly in his farewell address.That brought it to Nixon embracing it when he became president and moving on partisanly to bring it about at least in part, ultimately. (Interruption) G: What did your colleagues from the Kennedy Administration think
  • and the attention the Post Office Department received at cabinet meetings; Richard Nixon's and postmaster general-designate Winton Blount's support for the blue-ribbon commission's proposal to make the Post Office Department an independent entity; O'Brien's work
  • McDonnell and Company as its president.Either way, I would be coming to New York. So I joined the firm and came to New York to meet the top officers of the firm for the first time. I think it was literally on the day that Nixon was being inaugurated. I moved
  • The Humphreys' visit with the O'Briens the day before Richard Nixon's inauguration; O'Brien's decision to become president of McDonnell and Company as Murray McDonnell became chairman of the board; Ira Kapenstein and Phyllis Maddock moving
  • the ca mpaign. G: Like Nixon's -- A: Well yes, it was a set harangue. tariff. In those days there was much talk about The audience usually got bored and some would leave. effort to hold the crowd would yell "And what about eggs!" Curtis
  • . Joining the meeting: Senator Richard Russell Gene~al Westmoreland - . EYES ONLY FOR THE PRESIDENT NOTES OF THE PRESIDENT'S MEETING WITH: SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CLARK CLIFFORD SECRETARY OF STATE DEAN RUSK GENERAL EARLE WHEELER ADMIRAL THOMAS MOORER
  • was when Eisenhower was elected president in November of 1952. He took office January 20, 1953. named a fellow named Herbert Brownell to be attorney general. He So Richard Nixon and Brownell realized the only way that they could continue
  • LBJ’s election as whip; Senator Ernest McFarland; Senator Richard Russell; Preparedness Committee; Senator Estes Kefauver; Douglas MacArthur’s speech to Congress; natural gas bill; Tidelands bill; Walter Jenkins; LBJ’s love for the ranch and cattle
  • up through the Johnson presidency. Did you notice a difference in administration lobbying--? M: Well, it depended. I never did think the Republican lobbyists were quite as effective. [Richard] Timmons, wasn't he Eisenhower's chief lobbyist, Timmons
  • 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.
  • : Yarborough never was really part of the southern group. B: No. Well, neither he nor Johnson joined the southern caucus. Johnson and Senator [Richard] Russell of Georgia, of course, worked hand in glove on everything. They were very close to each other
  • 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
  • with Richard Nixon when Nixon was vice president and presiding over the Senate? C: No, I can't say that I particularly noticed it. Nixon, when he was vice president, looking back, he didn't seem to play a very strong role. He traveled quite a bit. vice