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  • you have any insights into that at all? She is supposed to have gone to the South Vietnamese Embassy to encourage them not to accept a settlement, because if they did not, presumably Nixon would be elected, and they would get a much better deal
  • to the press in the Paris negotiations; information leaks during Paris talks; private talks held in Paris; Madame Anna Chennault; results of the Paris talks after the Nixon administration was in power; writing for The Vantage Point; LBJ in retirement.
  • this? H: No, no. We had no connection with that. Mc: Can you tell me what the commission did to ease the transition from the Johnson Administration to the Nixon Administration? Was there anything necessary to do? H: Most briefly stated, there wasn't
  • of shipbuilding and sea-going unions; control of foreign steamship lines; containerization of shippers; inspections; origin/scope/work of FMC; White House support of commissioner; Robert J. Blackwell; transition from LBJ Administration to Nixon Administration
  • /show/loh/oh 9 Johnson, but there's still a vocal minority bitterly complaining about Nixon. I don't think at any time did Johnson receive criticism for being a traitor to the South in any sizeable amounts; he later got criticism for other things
  • Education; Heller plan; James Farmer; open accommodations ordinance; Chapel Hill; 1964 Lady Bird’s whistle stop tour; Governor Dan Moore; possible cabinet position; 1968 Democratic National Convention; Richard Nixon and Duke University; Sam Ervin
  • be done so as not to adversely impact on our security and strategic relationship with Taiwan. I think that once President Nixon achieved the breakthrough, we are treading this careful balance of having accepted and faced up to the reality of Communist
  • . It wasn't done in order to placate the President; it was done because he generally believed in that particular course. G: Did you have an opportunity to observe his relationship with President Eisenhower and also Vice President Nixon's relationship
  • Association with LBJ; Senate; McCarthyism; impressions of LBJ; Johnson leadership; relationship with William Knowland; techniques; timing; LBJ temper; space program; relations with Eisenhower; Nixon and Dirksen; Lewis Strauss nomination; 1957 civil
  • to the Senate in 1957, I was the youngest member. I had no sooner taken the oath admininistered by Nixon, who was then vice president and who ironically is now the president, I had no sooner taken the oath and stepped down and started to walk up the central
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
  • of it, the very end of it, or better yet, I think it was when Mr. Nixon came in. I told him that, you know, I took all the flak for a lot of these operations when in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • concerns Johnson did about disengaging from Vietnam, but I just can't recall the specific conversation. G: Any talk on politics, do you remember? It was generally conceded that Nixon would be the nominee. J: I think so. I just don't recall it. I just
  • and who knew about it; Jones’ duties surrounding the 3/31/68 speech; 1968 presidential campaign; rumors that Nixon was making deals with South Vietnam; LBJ’s support of candidates, including Hubert Humphrey; Humphrey campaign event in Houston; 1968
  • , it was, and it extended on through his time. And Nixon actually asked us to reduce it to 5 per cent, you remember, at one point after he'd been in office, I believe. 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • of Richard Nixon and George Wallace as far as Negroes are concerned. The implication will be left during speaking engagements that Mr. Humphrey is the only choice left for Negro voters. No further dissemination is being made of the above data. Sincerely
  • . But with Martin, there was far less communication on an intellectual level. I love the guy; and there is no question about his integrity--that just sticks out allover him. is, I hope and I really think, a thing of the past. But that situation Even the Nixon
  • ; Pierre Renfret; rumors of recession, 1966-1967; Ford strike, 1967; Ackley's resignation and subsequent ambassadorship to Italy; transition to Nixon Administration; Robert McNamara; balance of payments problem; Charles de Gaulle
  • to fill only about 200 of those 1,000 vacancies. And if they had been on the schedule we had planned, they would by this time have filled about 700 of the vacancies. B: Then Mr. Nixon's recent request for an increase was an additional thousand men over
  • of the Senate. K: You can tell me again. S: Well, this was still at the end of the Eisenhower Administration. wait a minute, let's see, this was 1960. That was Eisenhower, yes. Nixon was Vice President and he was not favorably disposed toward Medicare
  • this, Nixon took that trip to South America. R: Yes. The one to Venezuela? 28 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Vice ~ Mr. 7:15p t 7:l6p Steve 7:30p 7:40 7:30p 7:42p President, I f Richard President Nixon - re sto p the bombing in VietNam. President read Detroit ~ latest statement fro m General Abrams in connection with thi s matter. (b. 2) Rostow came
  • conditions. 11 They may be trying to play American politics. General Wheeler: The Soviet's understand it -- loud and clear. The President: I want the Soviet's to understand it; I want Harriman-­ Vance to understand it! and Nixon understands
  • t o Mr . White about how much he dislike the thir gs Nixon had said about him--calling the President a traitor. He said to have the clippings by Nixon and his reply in Press Conferences sent up so he could show them to Mr. White. (Note : when
  • with Nixon because it would help him [Johnson]. F: He'd be in a position when he called the White House that he could go on over and talk about it. G: That's right. F: Did you have any relationship with Sam Rayburn? LBJ Presidential Library http
  • , as a raconteur. G: --but he would do it with a straight face, or something. W: But he didn't see it in himself. He could make fun of Dick Nixon saying. "You won't have old Dick Nixon to kick around any more," and do a perfect imitation of him doing
  • of the Nixon Administration, which was about eight years after I had gone down there. As a matter of fact, in 1974 when I left the NSC to go to the State Department with Kissinger, I got the administrative people at the NSC to do a formal statement of what my
  • , what will happen now with the Nixons--undoubtedly we haven't gotten launched on that so we're a little uncertain about it--but naturally photographs of the Nixon family and their doings will come in. So there will be a greater spread of the coverage
  • 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
  • Nixon turned loose on them? · President Nixon did more damage to the North Vietnamese than we would have LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • 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
  • ~ Clark Clifford (b. Christian Ernest Maguire (include visited by) ture Dean Rusk Secy 5:50p f 1968^ Friday n - Day President began his day at (Place) TP Telephone l ime r 1— 1 In Out Lo 25, 2) - re ticker story of Nixon aides saying
  • for Melvin Sultemeier (the ranch's Asst Foreman) who is leaving Monday for six months military duty. 8:10p Depart Sultemeier residence 8:25p Arrive Main House 9:18p t ' --Secy 93^ffip Nixon 9:30p DINNER Senator 9:49p f Walt 10:00p To Day 1968
  • :47p t 4:45p 4:50 y Thursda n Charles Zwic k t Rosto w - pl President-elec b. 1 p To t Richard Nixon , 39t h Floor , Hote l Pierre , Ne w York City m Johnso n - i n 4:53 Presiden t t o mjdr's offic e 4:56p Presiden t t o Ova l Offic e 4:58p
  • -elect Nixon Charles Zwick Jones - pl Hon . Marvin Watson i n Austin , Texa 10:45a t Walt Rostow - pl —11:00am 1 Walt Rostow - pl —11:05am 1 George s Christian pl some time this morning, the President saw the sculptor, Mr. Rober Berks OFF
  • Frida y y (includ e visite d by ) tur e e e and breakfast Mrs. Johnso n joine d Staff (Larr y Temple . Ji m Jones . To m Johnson i n and out. 10:10a To m Johnso n and Herb Klei n (President-Elect Nixon' s staff ) in West Hal l ——— --Mr. Klei n ha
  • presidential staff." So he kept--it was a point of pride to keep it smaller than the Nixon vice-presidential staff, even though he [inaudible]-MG: I see. G: And Juanita Roberts was on detail from the Pentagon, and I was, of course--I was on the State
  • . Reuben H . Levy. , Wilkes-Barre, . Pa . Robert S . Nickoloff , Hibbings , Minn , Dr. Joh n H . Nixon- , New . York Walter Hasty . Milton J . Shapp , Philadelphia , Pa . Miles C . Stanley , Charleston , Wes t Va . John S . Stewart , Durham , N . Carolin
  • , 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
  • gone to b e d a little p a s t m i d n i g h t w ith H u b e r t ru n n in g n e c k a n d n e c k w ith Nixon - - a s u r p r i s i n g , p o u r - t h e - s t e a m - o n , m a g n if ic e n t r a c e . B u t the o u tco m e too c l o s e to know f
  • Richard Nixon wins Presidential election; LBJ & Lady Bird call Hubert & Muriel Humphrey; Gerard Nugent has back surgery; Hubert Humphrey & Richard Nixon give speeches; Johnsons make additional election phone calls; Johnsons & Arthur Krims drive
  • Secretary Rusk to brief you on the NPT, Vietnam, Czechoslovakia, the Middle East, and North Korea. Secretary Rusk and Ambassador Thompson and I have briefed Nixon. Secretary Rusk: The rumors on the Pueblo appear unfounded. There have been no movements
  • . There was a full and frank exchange on what lay ahead for NATO. Clifford thought that these had been a "uniquely productive four or five days. " The President urged Secretary Clifford to read Nixon's speech on NATO. ~W~ German See!'elat y Gliff!:\M then reported
  • tremendous respect, always, for his intellectual ability. I thought he was a towering--I thought that he was, that intellectually he was far superior to Nixon, to Ford. And Kennedy had a very quick facile mind, but Johnson in some ways had a deeper mind
  • ‫ ס‬Pat Nixon. I know she will make a fine First Lady. She has much t ‫ ס‬look forward to. And I know you have some exciting years ahead a.s you meet and cover the new First Family• It is going to be a little lonely without you. And don 1t be surprised
  • of [approach]? B: Yes, and I think this was an important difference between him and President Nixon . I know, for example, that it's impossible to get through to President Nixon on a foreign policy issue without going through the NSC staff and Mr
  • awareness is best evidenced by the fact that ~e•ve got two prime political animals, President Nixon on the one hand, and Senator Edmund Muskie on the other, attempting to out-compete the other in terms of who can do the most. We are, as some obse:::vers
  • or tips on to Mrs. Nixon? Dr. Gould's essay is going to focus in on the institution office of First Ladies and we're sort of interested of the in whether there LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B