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Oral history transcript, H.S. Hank Brown, interview 1 (I), 6/8/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Nixon . I think Mr . Meany showed his wisdom there and even Mr . Reuther took the position that � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Jesse Curry, interview 1 (I), 8/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://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 Curry--I--5 here after Nixon had had one. One of the reasons I remember
Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • as commander-in-c·hief on the information he had, and I support President Nixon as far as what he's trying to do. I really doubt the wisdom of the day when we cripple the powers of the president to be commander-in-chief of this country. There's something
Oral history transcript, Lee C. White, interview 3 (III), 3/2/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • not, if I recall correctly, morning meetings such as I read in the paper that the Nixon ..l.drninistration White House has. F: There was nothing routine about these--every Tuesday or every second Tuesday or something like that? W: I think every once
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, Ten Year Progress Report, 1981," LBJ Library (Item)
  • , Johnson, Administration. and Ford. Planning is underway for the Carter Library in Georgia. The site for a Nixon the Lyndon Museum Library has not, at this st::ige, been have gruwn up around it, from its conception early in the Johnson administration
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
Published remarks, Remarks of Lyndon B. Johnson at the Civil Rights Symposium, 12/12/72 (Item)
  • and the opportunity to honor you and to recall the great strides of the 1960's is worthy and justifiable. However, the hour is late, the needs of the black nation overdue and urgent. Racism under the Administration of Richard Nixon has increased. This gathering
Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , anyhowo I'm sure the Johnson people feel a certain antipathy toward the Nixon people as usurpers, even though they knew for months it was going to happen. R: Yes. Well, when it comes that suddenly-- F: It's just a surrender. R: You are i.n physical
Oral history transcript, A.M. "Sandy" Keith, interview 1 (I), 8/20/1979, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • a good deal over the years. But, anyhow, the ticket ran very well in Minnesota. We beat [Richard] Nixon rather decisively, whereas we had, eight years later, more trouble. F: Explain to me, for a minute, the DFL. Is it consistently liberal, or does
Oral history transcript, Milton S. Eisenhower, interview 1 (I), undated, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • is not meant to be critical. F: True. A senator who is a defeated is no senator at all then. E: Certainly. F: Getting to be Vice President freed Mr. Johnson from Texas. You went in '59 with Vice President Nixon to USSR and to Poland. So far as you know
Oral history transcript, James A. Turman, interview 1 (I), 3/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . (Note: Allen came in under Nixon and was fired by Nixon.) M: Well, now, what's your relationship with the Justice Department? T: My office does not have any relationship. The legal problems are basically handled by a group of lawyers working under
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • . Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Wallace -- I -- 27 And I believe that the acceptance speech of Mr. Nixon in Miami was influenced by my speech in Miami two
Oral history transcript, Ivan Sinclair, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
  • ; Nixon/Braniff situation; what it was like to work for LBJ.
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In a sense you were girding for 1956, in case Richard Nixon should be the president before 1956? M: Well, that at least was the speculation. So we went to Texas. Governor Stevenson gave a lecture at the University of Texas. Then we got in the car
Oral history transcript, James W. Wilson, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , of course, as we went on. Then another thing time span now. I'm not talking in any particular But bearing on that subject, it was very inter- esting as we got into the 1960 session. dates were in the Senate. Of course, all of the candi- Nixon
Oral history transcript, Charles J. Zwick, interview 2 (II), 8/1/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • an oceanographic building over here on Key Biscayne--which, by the way, President Nixon's put back in the budget, and I knew he would, having been located at Key Biscayne--and dredging of this harbor and so forth. There was always a continuous dialogue between
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 2 (II), 8/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . Nixon's taking the publicity advantage of the thing, doing the talking to the moon, in terms of the old fable in Aesop about the wren jumping off the back of the eagle. I remember two or three things about the Sputnik episode that have always stuck in my
Oral history transcript, John T. Connor, interview 1 (I), 6/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 5 (V), 6/23/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Jonathan F. Ladd, interview 2 (II), 9/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • the President." And so then they took me to my apartment over at Crystal City, and sure enough the next morning they showed up. I went over there, and I talked to Kissinger and Haig; met Nixon briefly, and then went back and talked to them again
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 105: Nov. 9‑14, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 42 (Item)
  • , now. in December it will be 62 years, and I think the likelihood of being asked is so remote as not to warrant comment. I not only have not been asked, but at: the meeting yesterday, I advised Mr Nixon that I thought he should appoint his new Secretary
Oral history transcript, Orville Freeman, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • is that probably the election would not have been won if Johnson hadn't gone on the ticket. As you look back on it and realize how strongly Nixon did carry the Midwest and how strongly he did outside of Minnesota in this last election, why you can only conclude
  • members’ involvement in the 1968 campaign; Walker Report and the 1968 convention; Humphrey-Muskie campaign; DNC; HHH-LBJ relationship during the campaign; Vietnam; Wallace supporters; Nixon campaign; developing an agricultural policy; discussions with JFK
Oral history transcript, Lawson B. Knott, Jr., interview 1 (I), 4/21/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . But I think momentum takes you, and I think it is the kind of an operation that men really can't handle too well. ran a good campaign this last time. I watched that. Nixon It was very well run, mechanically and strategically. F: R: Yes, I thought
  • at start of LBJ presidency; LBJ and his advisors; LBJ’s method of operation; press comparison of LBJ and Nixon; 1964 campaign; LBJ and Mike Mansfield; Democratic National Committee; fund-raising committees; Lady Bird and Mrs. Rowe
Oral history transcript, John V. Singleton, Jr., interview 2 (II), 7/15/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Nixon--who was Nixon's running mate? G: Lodge. S: Lodge, [Henry] Cabot Lodge. It was a very close race. Sometime in October Mr. Johnson called me and said that--if you will recall he was running both, he got the legislature to pass a law where he
Oral history transcript, Curtis LeMay, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Dale Miller and Virginia "Scooter" Miller, interview 1 (I), 8/26/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • to Richard Nixon. Df·i: That is true. F: When did you first get to know Johnson? OM: I actually met Mrs. Johnson a considerable time before I did the President. He were schoolmates at the University of Texas together and in the journalism school
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , who's downtown now? I think he was; I think he was with Eisenhower--or Nixon. I guess it was Eisenhower. G: Yes. M: He was a good man, there's no question about it. He came from Tennessee, I think, originally. But I never noticed, I just never
  • welfare amendments; residency requirements; JFK’s Madison Square Garden speech; JFK assassination; 1970 Nixon welfare program; 1972 election; the role of vice presidents; the Mills-Ribicoff bill; Adam Clayton Powell; meat quota bill.
Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • moving and he shouted out as he departed, "What has Dick Nixon ever done for Culpepper?1t You remember that, I guess you've had that from a lot of sources. That actually happened. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, James H. Blundell, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • e p o l i t i c a l r e a s o n s for you to go into certain places. If our polls s h o w e d t h a t the Nixon-Lodge ticket was strong in a c e r t a i n area, we needed h e l p there, we'd either get one o f the candidates in t h e r e or get
  • Biographical information; John Connally; 1941 Senate race; war years; 1960 presidential campaign; advancing; campaign trips; New York City; convention; Nixon; Texas politics; Alvin Wirtz; Johnson personality; Mrs. Johnson
Oral history transcript, James U. Cross, interview 2 (II), 2/11/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • , I think, and his wife were there. And we were talking about one thing and another, just socializing, you know, and the subject came up about Nixon, who at that time had just unleashed the B-52 bombers against the North Vietnamese, I mean, really
Oral history transcript, Oveta Culp Hobby, interview 1 (I), 7/11/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Hobby -- I -- 3 President Kennedy. The Post did not support the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, but supported Mr. Nixon in that year. And in 1964 we supported Mr. Johnson. M: So
Oral history transcript, J.Willis Hurst, interview 3 (III), 11/8/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , senators that he knew. I recall that Eisenhower, of course, visited and Vice President Nixon visited. 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • followed him, the Nixon Administration, for instance, I think that apart from considerations of policy of the U.S. vis-à-vis the world, he had a lot of compassion for the Vietnamese, and the notion of geopolitical considerations. Cold War calculation
  • -1966 and how he became ambassador to the U.S.; LBJ's and Richard Nixon's efforts relating to Vietnam.
Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • of my presence. He sort of said, "fine, that sounds good," or something. I don't remember really what he said. I do know what he felt. He felt a very, very firm conviction that Johnson was the man to beat Nixon, and he wanted very much for Johnson to get
Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Bradley Peterson came from or anything else. I got along with him fine and still do. I found out some--I think he went to the Nixon White House so I said, oh, that's what the problem was; he was a Republican. But then I went to speak in 1981 to the local
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : [Alan] Cranston? G: Cranston, and by Congressman [Ronald] Dellums and Congressman [John] Conyers. It doesn't seem to make any sense, but Nixon is determined to try to achieve with nonmilitary means, with American dollars and hired people, what he
Oral history transcript, Ben W. Heineman, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • group, and this had not been terribly successful. So we felt a good deal of compulsion to redeem the President's pledge, to get this thing finished. F: Or get it done by the Nixon Administration. H: So we commenced work in February. F: Did you
Oral history transcript, Edwin O. Reischauer, interview 1 (I), 4/8/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • had a better option, in a sense, than Nixon has today. In a way, and Nixon is going to take the option of withdrawal, obviously. I don't think he'll get out on an easy negotiation. Let's hope he does, but I think he will just have to opt