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- , 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
- where it was
a seven year term. And in my seven years why President Nixon was president
and he appointed me to another one. I stayed three years more but became
seventy years of age, mandatory retirement, so I moved back to Texas where I've
been for ten
- , E.S. "Pat" Kelly, Max Mallick, Reagan Nesbitt, Justin Blakeney, Raymond Hicks, Henry Moore, J. Paul Secrest, J. Edwin Smith, Will Henry Burt, Hubbard Neely, Bert Horne, Gus Barr, Buster Brown, C.B. McNeil, Roy Swift; people from Wilson County
- sunk
Nixon, apparently. But he didn't use these things.
M:
Johnson could have what?
D:
Sunk Nixon. May I tell you what these are right now? After a while we'll have these on
record. There are allegations--we know, of course, that Richard Nixon
- Contacts with LBJ as VP; LBJ and civil rights legislation;LBJ's involvement with the downfall of Joseph McCarthy; HHH's position on Vietnam during 1968 campaign; RFK; Dallek's comments on Richard Nixon's involvement in the 1968 Vietnam peace
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Nixon turned loose on them? ·
President Nixon did more damage to the North Vietnamese than we would have
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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- the Vietnam War changed under Richard Nixon's leadership; fear of Chinese and Soviet involvement in Vietnam; comparing LBJ's and Bill Clinton's sources of information; the relationships between presidents and former presidents; LBJ's great capacity for taking
- ,
and I also gave all the main addresses during the Kennedy presidency and during the
Eisenhower period except two. I quit when Nixon became president because he had
asked me to lead the inauguration prayer as well as preach the first service at the White
- was there during the effort to impeach
Richard Nixon, and if there was any single experience I had in the Congress which made me
know that public servants needed a very high and keen ethical sensitivity, my experiences in
Watergate certainly underscored that for me
- as a professor; Jordan's involvement in Congress during Watergate and the Nixon impeachment hearings; Jordan's sense of optimism; the large quantity of money that is necessary to run for political office; women in politics; Jesse Jackson's political career
- /exhibits/show/loh/oh
McGeorge Bundy -- Dallek Special Interview I -- 23
waters," he said to me.
B:
That's right, surely we were both out of the government by then. We were both believers
that--
Tape 1 of 1, Side 2
--and Hubert over Nixon by a country
- the Vietnam War was still fresh in the memories
of many people.
DC:
It was still going on at that time, because that was during the Nixon Administration. I
think we've covered the beginnings well enough.
Stages of growth; and I think we should try to confine
- by the
conference Secretary Dulles had with the leadership of the Senate in...
I believe it was '54 when Nixon announced during that period that we
would be p:itting troops in that area of the world, and Dulles consulted
us about supporting the French following
- 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--
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- , and
if it got it, whether it could appropriately
use it.
I was assigned by the Ambassador
(James C. Dunn) to accompany this Herter
subcommittee throughout Italy ·for three weeks,
and one of the members that I got to know very
(
well was Richard Nixon, who
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There was anxiety about it, but it wasn't dominant. It wasn't anything like as acute as the
one that our friends had in 1973.
D:
You mean Nixon and [?]
B:
Yes.
D:
What do you think was Johnson's general objective here? To try and get this settled as
quickly
- the help of
some of my friends who did a little nudging, Nixon re-appointed me. So I stayed on
there as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission. And another facet of my life
unfolded. I got to see Washington first hand, learned for the first time how
- and the new systems
of management to which I have referred were not so fully institutionalized as to be
preserved in their entirety in subsequent administrations, and particularly in the Nixon
Administration.
So much for success and failure. I want to end