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Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

. And also on Nixon today. I think Nixon personally has done a good job of not rocking the boat, keeping the thing sort of going along, trying to tune the situation up, as I see it. I hope that we can work something out without a major change in direction

Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the subject matter, making his points very forcefully. So did Kosygin, by the way. I met Kosygin later, on a number of other occasions during the [Richard] Nixon Administration, and once during the [Jimmy] Carter Administration. He was becoming less forceful

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that, sometimes only four or five paragraphs, in which we would--well, the only one I can remember right now is one in which Mr. Nixon had made some rather some silly statement. I wrote out that, "Mr. Nixon has been caught with his planks down," which obviously

Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

reorganize the Senate and either name himself as Democratic leader or else pick the person who would be the leader. G: Did he ever refer to Nixon during these explanations? V: No. G: As a desire to keep Nixon from being president? V: No, I don't

Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, and was very proud. I can remember when she came back as the dowager empress during the Nixon Administration being so horrified at how things had been moved around the house and that Mrs. Kennedy had really ruined what she thought was a furnishing plan

Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. There were allegations, on one occasion, that we put a microphone on candidate Nixon's plane when he was going into Albuquerque, New Mexico. President Johnson personally called me and wanted to know if I could find out, and this was specifically his only

Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, including the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Without Agriculture, went to see LBJ for one last effort . explaining why at all he simply said, "No . This is up to whoever wins the election--Humphrey or Nixon . I'm not going to act ." They wrote

Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

commentator, debating with another man last night about eight o'clock, I believe it was. One man was debating in favor of Nixon and the other one came along and he came on strong telling them about McGovern. He said, "Thi,s is what you say about McGovern

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

!" He was amused, and from then on it became the Quadriad. But just to show you how history goes, about a year ago I read a little item in the paper saying "President Nixon called a meeting of the Quadriad which was formed and named during

Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

used to think maybe he was a Russian spy. But I do know that he knew his master was President of the United States! And he may have gone to Nixon; I don't know. I have the feeling that he was going to stay with power. Anyway, Yuki came in our house

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the Johnson Administration. In fact, I don't think the Nixon people have shipped them very much military aid. It has mostly been only spare parts, etc. I don't recall when that decision was made--rnaybe under Johnson, maybe under Nixon--but all this to-do

Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to me. G: What about his relations with Vice President [Richard] Nixon? Did he seem to get along well with Nixon? H: I think he got along with him. I don't ever remember Nixon coming in the office. I remember seeing Nixon going up and down

Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 7 whip. The most spectacular election, probably, was an ugly one, in which Richard Nixon defeated our old friend, Helen Gahagan Douglas. That was when
throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg

Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt --9 vice-presidency and said he did it because he didn't like what Nixon did to Helen, he said, "Now Helen was an emotional girl, and she often said and did things that I didn't approve

Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

auditorium. the auditorium was filled. Had a program there and The police chief gave us a crowd estimate of 175,000, which I think was ballooned, but the big and important thing about that was Nixon had been there the day before, and that was what really

Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

at that time, I had met him, but I can't say that I knew him. This was 1962? There was a presidential election in 1960 with Kennedy and Nixon. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral

Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

good writer. He was accused of being lazy. I think that started when he was [Richard] Nixon's vice-presidential choice, and apparently he didn't open as many supermarkets as they thought he ought to have. He might have been lazy in doing stupid things
; Jacobson's opinion of LBJ's visit to Vietnam in 1966; Jacobson's work with Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS); military organization in Vietnam; the Vietnam War during Richard Nixon's and Gerald Ford's administrations; evacuating

Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 4 (IV), 8/7/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Vice President Nixon. In this instance I think that there were times when the relationship was less close than it was at other times, but as the campaign came on, or as it neared, I was sure in my own mind that the President was going to decide to have

Oral history transcript, Sid Davis, interview 5 (V), 11/28/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this in private or whether he told us this in that room; I think it might have been a private conversation--he said that he had a session with Ron Ziegler, who was the incoming press secretary to Richard Nixon. And Ziegler asked him if he had any advice, in being

Oral history transcript, Bess Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

back quite far enough. Just yesterday when I was driving across Memorial Bridge and all the flags were out, the D.C. flag, the American flag, and some other flag I didn't recognize, I thought, "Nixon has a State visitor. Why don't I know who

Oral history transcript, Roland Boyd, interview 1 (I), 6/4/1985, by Dave McNeely (Item)

would be running against Richard Nixon had some influence with Rayburn as well? B: Oh, no question about that. Mr. Rayburn was very bitter on Richard Nixon, and as subsequent events proved, he had a right to be. G: But did Rayburn say, for example

Oral history transcript, George E. Christian, interview 5 (V), 7/1/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

out of the President when Connally joined Nixon's cabinet? C: No, I never talked to him at all about that. F: On the cabinet, did you have any particular vantage point on the McNamara resignation as Secretary of Defense and becoming the president

Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

informed myself, I might have made a bigger dent on it. But he realized that he'd have to hand it to somebody, and it would be just one more thing he'd have to do something about. Of course, he could have done exactly what Nixon did. G: Perhaps Nixon

Oral history transcript, Floyd E. Dominy, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Eilene M. Galloway, interview 1 (I), 5/18/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was presiding, and then you had the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and NASA and a few other outside people. Well, when Nixon was presi- dent he abolished this council by a reorganization plan

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Waldron -- II -- 27 or Mr. Nixon, do that," and then you just stopped and thought. "Well, if you knew really what they knew you might have done the same thing." G: I was just wondering if in retirement he expressed any

Oral history transcript, Walter G. Hall, interview 1 (I), 6/30/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., interview 1 (I), 7/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

passed his Jury Trial Amendment. I remember the You see, what Johnson was doing was passing both amendments; then he had to deal with Russell and avoid a filibuster. I saw then Vice President Nixon and then Attorney General Bill

Oral history transcript, Chalmers Roberts, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

situation from a journalistic standpoint, because you have a political conflict built in there. Therefore the legislature--in that case and it's going to be true with the Nixon Administration--you have legislative leaders that the President of the other

Oral history transcript, Karl E. Mundt, interview 1 (I), 9/21/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

be about right. M: Do you have close knowledge of the role that Mr. Johnson may have played in the Eisenhower years in the realm of foreign policy? Mundt: Yes, as I said earlier, he fairly consistently supported the Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign
First meeting LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; 1948 Mundt-Nixon proposal; Joe McCarthy; USIA; Smith-Mundt Act of 1948; Arthur Larson; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower-Nixon-Dulles foreign policy; Quemay-Matsu-Pescadores problem; Russia détente

Oral history transcript, Albert H. Quie, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Yes, the lack of power and the lack of action. We always hear about the "new era" when Eisenhower gave Nixon more responsibility and more authority, and the same was supposedly true that Kennedy was to have added onto Johnson's responsibility from

Oral history transcript, Antonio Carrillo-Flores, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

feasible thing: to untie the loans of the United States to Latin America, something that President Nixon did about a year ago. President Johnson wanted to do that, but apparently he couldn't get the authority from, or the approval of, the key members

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krim, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

another way the answer would be different. And that is, did the same group support Nixon. Many of them did after he became president. There was a kind of standing job between President Johnson and myself because there were occasions where I would have

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