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  • to do this and said that he, understood the President's reluctance to have his administration involved in this campaigh and that he'was prepared to submit his resignation, but "e 'felt deeply that the field should not be left to Nixon. He felt
  • to bed." What was his relationship with Vice President Nixon during this period? Did they get along well? Did he trust Nixon, do you think? M: Oh, I don't think they had much dialogue, contact. loner. Nixon was a He never had any particular contact
  • Nixon naming me to these councils~-signed by President Johnson. F: Did you see President Johnson at all in these first two appointments? Did he come around? M: Oh, yes. He didn't come around to we went around to him, but US; we certainlyg'ot
  • ; Wilbur Cohen and Elliot Richardson as managers of HEW; proliferation of educational legislation and funding under LBJ and consolidation of same under Nixon.
  • wore on. M: Oh, he did. president. He did. In fact, he became disenchanted with every He supported Goldwater in 1964 and he supported Nixon in 1968, although he was really for Reagan. nomination he was for him. sioned with Nixon. G: But after
  • into industry for a couple of years . M: Did that work? B: I don't know . December . It was set up in October, and we submitted a report in It was left for President Nixon . There was no way to put it into effect . M: Just a shot in the dark . Air Show
  • that took that attitude I felt Senator Byrd was not going to go along with that ticket, even though with Lyndon Johnson on it. And, as you know, he didn't. B: Do you figure, incidentally, that made the difference in Virginia? recall, Nixon carried
  • , but it was at ABC studio, here in New York, with Kennedy and Nixon, and that was the last debate. 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • LBJ's refusal to participate in a debate; JFK and Richard Nixon's second, third, and fourth debates; LBJ seeking Stanton's advice on improving his television appearances; LBJ using a lavaliere microphone; Morley Safer's 1965 broadcast depicting
  • for the Nixon-Lodge ticket? T: Well, the way we did it was I always in making my speeches advocated Nixon-Lodge, as well as my own candidacy. Then I traveled with the candidates when they were in the state. They both embraced me, for whatever political
  • always had to look out at the beginning of a new session for a fight on Rule 22, and Nixon was always on the lookout for a way to make himself a hero with those who wanted to change Rule 22. Nixon was really, I think, trying--it was assumed that he
  • at this physical fitness ' awards program, we had about ninety-five hundred winners throughout the country in the schools. A continuation of this program of course went on through President Nixon's Administration last year, which I'd say in 1970, [and] we had
  • mjd r an d Jim Jone s wm'k>c6iK3&fc6X(is:sk whil e talkin g t o Watson . President place d a cal l t o Sen . Joh n Towe r i n Fort Worth , Texas , bu t Tower s wa s a t a par k with Richar d Nixon attendin g a rally; secretary offere d to tr y t o ge
  • and radar c~assifi­ cation instructions we re losto The President: There are many charges corning across the tickers. You should set up a team of people to keep watch on these charges by people like Nixon and Romney and answer them quickly before they become
  • that the President heard it and is displeased. The President talked about the poll in yesterday's Washington Post front page story which showed the President defeating Romney and Nixon whether George Wallace was in or out of the race. He pointed out that last
  • because the more united we are the better chance we've got. And all of the candidates have said "We back you, Mr. President." Nixon, Wallace, and Humphrey. Now if they can say it, I don't know why you leaders can't say it loud and c lear. MANSFIELD
  • to AF#1, 26000, used for today's trip Judge A. W. Moursund - Johnson City, Texas (from plane) In cabin for takeoff w/ Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Thornberry, mf, ms --watching former Vice President Nixon on his televised TODAY show appearance The President
  • ; differences working with Weaver; HUD Building acquisition; White House support; Model Cities Program; local public authorities; revamping of the audit program; Joint Administrative Task Force; rent supplement; transition to Nixon.
  • in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition
  • , Notre Dame, Indiana, and I assume for purposes of this particular memoir I've been a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights since its inception in 1957. I've been chairman for the last year and a half, but that was a President Nixon appointment
  • else there, only these people. these people newspapers could be influenced. He felt that if he knew He didn't think as President Nixon who went after people through their income tax. Lyndon felt that LBJ Presidential Library http
  • until 1969 that our paths really crossed again, when George came in to be secretary of labor under Richard Nixon. F: Did the employees in the building just sort of spill out in the halls, head for the nearest TV set? Could you sense the grief
  • in Kennedy's race. It occurred in Humphrey's race in '68 here; Nixon carried the county by 2000 votes, and the state went for Humphrey. And He lost the county in '60 by 7500 and the state went for Kennedy. So it's gone pretty steadily
  • of good. As for that war, they have confused the hell out of me since it ended. Then of course Nixon confused me from the very minute he came to the House. I detested him for what he did to Helen Gahagan Douglas, if for nothing else. But Lyndon
  • the President has acted on them, so no one was certain what was in the case, although of course the rumor mill ground out bits and pieces on it. He had the choice then of either deferring the case to the next Administration, to the Nixon Administration
  • purchased the nomination and we'll wind up with Nixon as president of the United States. Whether you want to or not, you're going to run for that nomination. If you have any sense of indebtedness to the party, you have got to do it." So with that ringing
  • not clear whether we should continue with Skybolt, with Dynosoar, with the B-70. As it turned out, all those--all three of them which appeared dubious in 1960, we finally had to cancel. I'm sure today the Nixon Administration, looking at their issues
  • : Yes. M: And, of course, Nixon's a Republican, but you're still in office. Does this mean that the Nixon people are moving slowly in the transition? Or have they reached your area yet? Have you had contact with them? L: Okay. Oh, yes. Okay, let me
  • by contractors effective; that is, there was a follow-up, it was not just a reaction to individual complaints which was all that the similar Nixon committee had done. If you compare the rules and regulations and steps taken by the Nixon committee with those taken
  • to the other candidates on the record with regard to civil rights and everything else. And although Johnson had some vague civil rights positions, Kennedy also had vague civil rights positions. And I don't have to talk about Nixon and Lodge. My argument has
  • or politics generally. In foreign policy you have the adviser and his staff right in your building.The secretary of state is in Foggy Bottom. Personalities have a lot to do with it. There's no question, for example, in the Nixon Administration that Henry
  • speech in the U.N. which I had a central hand in drafting, but he came out with a big development program there which the Middle East governments didn't pick up. But in 1958 Vice President Nixon had a miserable time on a trip to Latin America. In Caracas
  • constituent units that I guess happened during the Nixon Administration. G: Anything else on Lyndon Johnson's role on the depressed areas bill in terms of getting it passed in the Senate? Again, we're talking about a close vote. Any senators that he leaned
  • counter-commission led by General Mark Clark; bickering among Selective Service Commission members and lack of direction in the commission; the president's emergency fund; the increase in number of commissions leading up to LBJ and Nixon; the role
  • point you saw something that stood out from the normal crowd shots as impressive as those crowd shots could be. Richard Nixon was elected Presi­ dent in 1968. It seems like ,the blink of an eye-the time from taking those photographs of the new President
  • that the influence of the press on the pres­ idency is vastly overrated. even by the press itself. For example, Nixon was not driven from office b cause of maleficent journalists, but ·'becau ·e his friends ralted on him .... It had nothing to do with analysis
  • and carrying the big stick, but the words should not be bellicose. And if you recall, they had campaigned in part on that theory, that [John Foster] Dulles' words had been too bellicose and that we'd-- F: Nixon's kitchen confrontation-- LBJ Presidential
  • that, Kennedy knew how far from Eisenhower Nixon really was as vice president. Nixon was kept extremely distant from current business. When I was in Washington to work on the Lebanon-Jordan speech, Jackson and I went around that same Friday morning to talk
  • ; Tet; Chian; Glassboro; transition from LBJ to Nixon.