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Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/31/1968 (Tuesday) (Item)
  • . He's a solid, gray-haired man, important looking, and affable enough, almost exactly like he ought to somehow for the Nixon cabinet. As we drove back to the house he said to me, "You know, my wife always speaks mighty highly of you. were a good f ir
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] The 23rd UN General Assembly, 9/25/1968, Volume 5, Tab 73," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)
  • have to take some risks for peace. We are now in a box which we must get out of. Hanoi wants peace. They are afraid of Mr. Nixon , consider h im irresponsible, and think that he might use nuclear weapons wer e he e lected. Secretary Clifford: Have we
Folder, "[NSC Meeting on] Monetary Issues, Vietnam, UN, 11/25/1968, Volume 5, Tab 76," National Security Council Meetings Files, NSF, Box 2 (Item)
  • to press stories reporting Chairman Mills 1 position on tax reform. Mills seemed reconciled to not putting in a reform bill. He preferred to leave tax reform to President Nixon who would have four years to consider the subject. General Wheeler: In response
Folder, "September 25, 1968 - 12:17 p.m. National Security Council," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • it for a couple of weeks. The position of the United States will be infinitely better. We are in a box. I believe they want a peace. They are scared to hell of Nixon - - afraid of his use of nuclear weapons. Secretary Fowler: What happens if we threaten to stop
Oral history transcript, Joseph J. Sisco, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • for International Organization Affairs, and then inl965 \ made assistant secretary, where you finished out that administration. S: That is correct. M: Of course, you have been in NEA [Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs] since then with the Nixon