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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 14 (XIV), 6/22/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • real affection for Johnson. Johnson and [Richard] Neuberger got along very well, too, which kind of surprised me. You could never be quite sure just who Johnson would get along with and who he wouldn't. For instance, he and Bill Fulbright got along
Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 7 (VII), 10/11/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • being authorized and then appropriated for. But my recollection is that because of Johnson's friendship with Senator [Richard L.] Neuberger from Oregon and Wayne Morse, while Neuberger and Morse disliked each other intensely, Johnson was friendly
Oral history transcript, Paul L. Thornhill, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1987, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • as a passenger; specific trips Thornhill flew for LBJ, including flights that involved dangerous situations; flying LBJ back to Texas after Richard Nixon's inauguration; reports of secret trips LBJ took to Mexico; LBJ inquiring about Thornhill's career plans
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of garrulous fellow and Jack was sort of neat and tidy. (Laughter) Let's face it, we've seen more and more of it since the days of Kennedy and Johnson and the advent of television, going all the way back [to] the Nixon-Kennedy debates, and the realization
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, Melville Bell Grosvenor, interview 1 (I), 4/28/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Johnson? G: The ftrst time I met him was when he was vice president and he kindly came to the dedication of the Richard Byrd Memorial Statue out on the approach to Arlington. The National Geographic supported Byrd for many, many expeditions back
  • Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ
Oral history transcript, William S. White and June White, interview 3 (III), 7/21/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as [Richard] Kleberg's assistant at the time. W: They used to call it secretary, but, yes, it was the same thing. G: Do you recall the situation there in the office? W: Johnson was really in a real sense running the office. a very genial, nice man, but he
Oral history transcript, Louis Martin, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • organization, he was the biggest wheel I had ever heard about in barbering and he ought to be the national president. He bought it like it was a godsend to him. He loved it. It was for these Democrats, because Chicago was Democratic, [Richard] Daley
Oral history transcript, Clifton C. Carter, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 3 (III), 2/13/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- III -- 15 Actually he had a very, very good relationship with the President. He had almost total access to everything, including the bedroom, that Nixon's photographer, Ollie Atkins, who died a few weeks ago, told me
  • Panmunjom; Dr. Richard Morstein’s plan to end the war in Vietnam; the large crowd that welcomed LBJ to Korea; Okamoto’s photography lab and pictures LBJ didn’t want publicized; firing/evaluating/hiring staff members.
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 2 (II), 10/29/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . C. in time for a vote; Bay of Pigs events and JFK accepting responsibility for failure there; JFK's trust in the CIA and military; education legislation; opposition from James Delaney to aid to education; Cardinal Richard Cushing's visit to the White
Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 1 (I), 12/5/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that the members, when you had people like Bob Kerr [D.-Okla.] and Richard Russell and Warren Magnuson [D.-Wash.] on the committee, while they were very close friends of Lyndon Johnson and his fellow whales in the Senate--part of the Establishment in the Senate
  • with Eisenhower Administration; self analysis; leader of an opposition on the staff; censure resolution; HHH; Richard Russell; HR 3; LBJ’s relationship with Kerr and JFK; contempt for some Senators and close friends in the Senate; LBJ singled out protégés; LBJ’s
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Woodrow Bean, interview 1 (I), 3/13/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • wonder how many now they're going to name Lyndon or--well, with Richard, you can't tell. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 6/15/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 23 (XXIII), 9/5/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Booth Mooney, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • this. I said, "Well, I can be on your side but I don't think I want to work for you or anything." But then that summer, Senator Johnson asked me to come up and work in Senator [Richard] Russell's effort to get the Democratic nomination [for President
Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • 7 You mentioned Richard Russell--Dick Russell was along. Sam never did play poker, but he liked to kibitz. Sam Rayburn, Homer [Thornberry] and Myron Blalock, Stu Symington, Lloyd Bentsen, and I've forgotten who else. But anyway we were playing
Oral history transcript, Clarence Mitchell, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • require the use of troops to enforce, and he didn't like that so much. Thereafter he held a conference with Senator [Richard] Russell, who had made the charge on the floor that they could enforce at the point of a bayonet. Well, it was from that point
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 1 (I), 7/24/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to Washington with the initial term of Richard M. Kleberg, who had been elected to Congress from Corpus Christi . That had at one time been part of the same congressional district with San Antonio . They had split off this Nueces County with sev­ eral other
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , that was at the Speaker ' s personal request. Pnd then the President had respect for Lyndon ' s judgment, and he knew some people the President didn ' t knm·1. Staffing an administration, as Mr. Nixon has found, is very difficult. They talked al most every day
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 2 (II), 7/19/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 8 (VIII), 8/17/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • upset. The people who make a big play out of this have been Republicans in the Congress. I don't know if President Nixon will have this much trouble or not, but my goodness, we certainly had-F: To a certain extent is this Congressional reluctance
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • should participate in the Humphrey campaign. Did you get involved in this one? M: I don't remember that I did. it for a while. B: I hate to say no without thinking about I don't remember that I did. Then after the election of now-President Nixon
Oral history transcript, Bryce N. Harlow, interview 2 (II), 5/6/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • I've always understood was the situation. G: There's some indication that both of them were persuaded by the argument that LBJ should run to keep Vice President Nixon from getting elected. H: Well, it's to win, yes. Because the answer
Oral history transcript, Edward C. Crafts, interview 2 (II), 5/12/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and the committee, but the new Nixon budget cut those in half and cut them back to what they had been. They didn't cut them below what they had been but just back to what they had been before. Now the funds don't amount to much because Mr. Rocke- feller puts
  • ; Laurance Rockefeller; Hubert Humphrey; consultant to American Conservation Association; Nixon administration proposed changes in the Council; Udall-LBJ relationship; transition; Hickel's influence with Laurance Rockefeller regarding Citizen
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, John A. Schnittker, interview 2 (II), 5/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , but would never have allowed him in the mid- or the late sixties to make the leap that Javits and Kennedy wanted, and was made in the Nixon Administration when the Food Stamp Program became truly national with many billions of dollars, instead of one or two
Oral history transcript, Jay Cutler, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1990 by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and we all know the history--Nixon decided for whatever arbitrary reasons he was not going to expend funds the Congress appropriated. And I was reflecting upon the fact that I can remember it was Senator Mondale, Senator Kennedy, Senator Javits and Pete
  • policies under President Nixon.
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 6 (VI), 12/9/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was sort of ambivalent about Humphrey both ways. G: Sure. What did you observe about the relationship between Johnson and Nixon that year that you were working [for him]? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • Southern Manifesto; farm legislation; Francis Case; social security; LBJ and Paul Butler; LBJ and Nixon; 1956 Democratic National Convention
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • did indeed work with the Labor people and some staff budget people, and they indeed liked it and they started urging it on Wirtz. And Wirtz became very high on the plan. Now, Nixon--I can't remember whether we started to run into trouble before
Oral history transcript, Lawrence E. (Larry) Levinson, interview 6 (VI), 8/18/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the experience that my wife and I had on the Sequoia. I can't pin the date down, although I would think it would be sometime after the Republican convention of 1968, and after President Johnson had had a meeting with President Nixon at the White House, generally
  • The Sequoia; LBJ's assessment of Nixon; LBJ's comments on Martin Luther King; working on a tax surcharge speech on the Sequoia; staff members wanting access to the Sequoia for personal use; Camp David; visiting the Ranch; LBJ's office at the Ranch
Oral history transcript, Lyndon B. Johnson, 8/19/1969, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , but no southern state unless we have something that will appeal to them. He asked him, "Do you want Nixon to be President? He called you a traitor." Rayburn always thought Nixon called him a traitor. Nixon brought me the speeches and they contained a phrase
Oral history transcript, Perle Mesta, interview 1 (I), 10/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • two man. F: Did you have any idea that he would accept the vice presidency? Or would be offered it? M: No, no. F: Is that the main reason that you supported Nixon in 1960? M: Yes, absolutely, absolutely. did Sam I was very disappointed when
  • Biographical information; envoy to Luxembourg; 1960 campaign; Eleanor Roosevelt; selling her house to LBJ when he was VP; Democratic Women for Nixon in 1960; Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy; Democratic factions