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  • it later was he said to him, "Mr. Rayburn, we can carry New York and Massachu­ setts and maybe aH the Northeastern part, but no southern states unless we have someone who appeals to them. Do you want Nixon to be President? He's the guy who called you
  • . 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
  • 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
  • people who thought that in effect Texas had been sold out by Lyndon Johnson going on the ticket? C: Well, we had some people who had supported Mr. Johnson for the nomination who now made it plain they were going to vote for Richard Nixon for President
  • and untroubled for the Nixon Administration as possible and not dissipate their initial energies carping and criticizing at impulsive things that he might be doing in the last days. Personally, I had enormous respect for this posture that he took. I think
  • certainly did; it was a great project and probably the only one in the history of the country that hasn't cost the public any money to build. M: This is a scattershot question, but I don't recall a memorial for President Nixon, unless it's next to his
  • the most serious threat? The President: Nixon has the best organization, more campaign ability and experience. Percy is a little boy blue. Romney has demonstrated what he is. Reagan is new and attractive. I guess a Nixon-Reagan ticket would be the strongest
  • reflected afternoon. moon. his thinking than the man in the He was given a speech which he had to give because it was the Administration position. See, I had told President Nixon in 1960, when he was very generously asking me to go on with him as vice
  • . There wasn't any lack of loyalty to Johnson, it was just an old relationship which kept going. G: How about LBJ and Nixon during this campaign? S: (Laughter) I don't know anything about it. any intention of helping Johnson. I don't think Nixon had LBJ
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Y: Yes. G: Y: Really? This was true of President Nixon, too, but President Nixon
  • and completely isolated from the public. F: Everything has got to be filtered through somebody. M: That's right. Eisenhower was in that position. Roosevelt was in that position. Nixon is now in that position, But Kennedy and Johnson, as far as I could ever
  • appropriations are decided; SCLC and Reverend Jesse Jackson demonstration in May 1968; LBJ’s Vietnam advisors; Comparisons of staff from Roosevelt to Johnson; comparison of presidents Roosevelt to Nixon.
  • in proclaiming United States accomplishments in space? Along with that, would you compare his record in this latter respect to that of President Nixon? That may be a little loaded. K: Yes. President Johnson had been very active from the beginning on the whole
  • of A life Wei/ lived, Harry Middleton's tribute to Mrs. Johnson. with written contribution~ from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Presidents Nixon, Ford. Caner. Reagan, and Bush; and posters of ..Breakfast at the Driskill,'" the original artwork memorializing
  • fizzled out. I don't know exactly when and how it lost all its steam; I don't remember. But at any rate, the Republican one was over in rather quick time with [Dwight] Eisenhower nominated and [Richard] Nixon nominated for the vice presidency
  • their actions last year when that bill was up because they got a big quid pro quo. They got what they wanted by way of spending limitations. Our members didn't get anything this time for supporting Nixon. That's one of the reasons why they didn't support Nixon
  • to be a very serious individual . And this, I think, ties into the sort of Baptist preacher thing . this has cost him terribly in public support . I think And, in passing, I think it's going to be the same with Nixon, although I don't think those two men--I
  • , of the Wall Street Journal, who later became under Nixon or Ford assistant secretary of defense on public relations or deputy assistant on public information, wrote a story called liThe Guided leak." The policy was quite clear to do this sort of thing
  • for obvious consultation . There was a lot of negotiation on this whole issue of what the Nixon people would say about the surcharge and such . M: Would you help draft speeches, say, for his--? 0: Yes . Several occasions I was the principal draftsman
  • Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam
  • •• ltmii111on of Eopyright HOider. w. Thornaa johnaon : ;-:~· : ~ - ~-i. - .- .­ !.. J ._.....,;_ - ...,A.~ lo ' ' '• ' EYES ONLY - 19 ­ Where will Nixon be at 5:00 p. m.? HHH? Where will Wallace be at 5:00? Have a phone they can cram right up
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 In fact they might be as interesting as were the Nixon-Kennedy debates during that campaign because they were really going from meeting to meeting, getting few hours of sleep, debating under pressure, and they went all out
  • that there's a somewhat similar group now working with the Nixon Administration to revise the order. I would guess however that it won't be a substantial departure from the order that came out in 1962. Along with this development were various legislative
  • of LBJ as a public servant; LBJ’s working habits and personality; Lady Bird; transition from Johnson to Nixon administration.
  • Johnson's effectiveness as Vice President 15,16 Days immediately following Kennedy assassination 17,19,20,21,22 Sec . Willard Wirtz 18,19 Mr . Meany 22 OEO 23,24 Everett Dirksen 25,26 President Johnson's major accomplishments 27 Nixon
  • as Vice President; JFK assassination; Secretary Willard Wirtz; George Meany; OEO; Everett Dirksen; LBJ's major accomplishments; Nixon; Humphrey; George Wallace
  • , with 2 p 08/04/62 A 1 p 05/24/61 A *~ l::r/,.,, 1 p NOTE: document 1132 was added to the file of VP Nixon's - ,,.(~ Secret from J. s. Earman CIA Secret To Col. Burris from J. s. Earman [carbon copy of Doc. 1126] list RESTRICTION ~7 05/24/61
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  • problems from time to time. R: That's right. I think it's a very subtle, complex, difficult kind of struggle to carry out. M: Mentioning the present--early 1970--president Nixon's policy has gained the title "Vietnamization."How different do you
  • Coordination of military and political effort problem; Nixon Vietnam problem; U.S. relations with mainland China, Laos, Thailand, Japan and Okinawa, Indonesia and Korea; Pueblo incident; India’s food problem; the Alliance for Progress; the Panama
  • and guidance. And in retrospect, I just think it disturbed the President a great deal that he was not used more by Nixon. Although Nixon did meet with him several times. They never had the kind of relationship that he had with Eisenhower and Truman, which
  • LBJ's relationship with Presidents Eisenhower, Truman, and Nixon; LBJ's 1968 speech to the Ladies Garment Workers in Atlantic City; LBJ's meeting with Australian Prime Minister John Gorton and U.S. relations with Australia; LBJ inviting Bonanno's
  • will end up dominating Nixon, and the country will be in economic difficulties all over again. F: How did you learn you were coming to Washington? W: In preparedness? F: Yes. W: I forget that exact medium. F: What I'm trying to establish
  • it. I had a feeling that President Kennedy was convinced that he had this vote, that he was going to get it, that there was no way that Nixon could take it away from him. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • of the old Cannon Building; there you had a three-room office. I was fortunate in getting up to the fifth floor. And along one wing, the wing that goes down First Street, was a fellow by the name of Richard Nixon, who came here two years after I did
  • it briefly in his farewell address.That brought it to Nixon embracing it when he became president and moving on partisanly to bring it about at least in part, ultimately. (Interruption) G: What did your colleagues from the Kennedy Administration think
  • and the attention the Post Office Department received at cabinet meetings; Richard Nixon's and postmaster general-designate Winton Blount's support for the blue-ribbon commission's proposal to make the Post Office Department an independent entity; O'Brien's work
  • McDonnell and Company as its president.Either way, I would be coming to New York. So I joined the firm and came to New York to meet the top officers of the firm for the first time. I think it was literally on the day that Nixon was being inaugurated. I moved
  • The Humphreys' visit with the O'Briens the day before Richard Nixon's inauguration; O'Brien's decision to become president of McDonnell and Company as Murray McDonnell became chairman of the board; Ira Kapenstein and Phyllis Maddock moving
  • the low camera angle from the left makes Percy look taller than Romney or Nixon, although he is at least six or eight inches shorter. I have also noted that most of the pictures published in the media of the Vice President and the President together show
  • and then he became the director of the Nutrition Institute at Tufts and by this time the Agriculture Committee was rewarding him by furnishing most of the money for that venture. G: Was the Nixon Administration more receptive to expanding these programs
  • support for food programs during the Johnson and Nixon administrations; "Dietary Goals for the USA"; opposition to the federal food programs; the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs becoming a subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture