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Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

] Humphrey and Mr. [Spiro] Agnew would say the same thing. In fact, there's a picture of those boys, with the exception of one or two of them, there on the wall where I gave a luncheon for them after the campaign. And the President was kind and gracious

Oral history transcript, David Halberstam, interview 1 (I), 11/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John P. Roche, interview 1 (I), 7/16/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

off, and with them, you see, they took the whole communications elite-- I mean, it's not Spiro Agnew's argument that there's one vast network here. There isn't a vast network. But what you have is a subculture which tends to accept certain values

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

/exhibits/show/loh/oh poor people in America, and I think he has got to maintain that. G: What prompted that question was Mr. Agnew's statement about "like the surgeon who doesn't consult with the patient in making a decision." I gather Mr. Nixon and Mr

Oral history transcript, Barry Goldwater, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

: Nixon, Johnson, and Agnew. Does the vice president cut any ice, really, in the Senate? G: No. Not until he has a tie vote, and nine times out of ten he's off playing golf someplace when you need him. Agnew, I must say, has been the most consistent vice

Oral history transcript, William J. Jorden, interview 4 (IV), 11/7/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

it pol it i call y . G: Did he think that Nixon was behind it? J: (Pause) G: That's a good answer, actually. J: I think he was ambivalent about that. G: Yes. J: He was certain that Agnew was involved, for a very good reason. G: Did he tell

Oral history transcript, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

effect in Saigon, and I knew that she was representing herself to Bui Diem as speaking for Nixon. In fact I was told that Agnew in some eccentric way or another got into the act, but I was told this in very great confidence and on the basis

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

to backbite Kennedy, or leaking a lot of information, or making unauthorized speeches, or going off in the Agnew route. He just never did that. The fact is, I think the only notable speech that Johnson made as vice president-well, of course

Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of years. In the 1968 campaign, I came up with the One about Agnew says, "If you've seen one slum. you've seen them all." I say, "If you seen one slum, you seen one too many." F: That's good. M: So whenever I see Humphrey, he says, "Write faster; write

Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

exceedingly receptive when I made some suggestions as to substantive things he might say to some of these guys, instead of confining himself to sort of the banalities that Agnew has just confined himself to on his first exercise in Vice Presidential diplomacy

Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)