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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 43 (XLIII), 1/23/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)
  • , and to take this lesser job. But, Lyndon feared that the Democratic Party would lose, [Richard] Nixon would win, and the Democratic Party would be out for years and years. And so he opted for doing what he thought of as a duty, and accepting the nomination
President's Daily Diary entry, 10/31/1968 (Item)
  • Thursday Day (include visited by) ture Clark Clifford Operator Dean Rusk Call General Earle Wheeler Hon. Director Richar d Helms George Mr. Walt Rostow Richard was asked t o setup a Conference to Vice President Hubert Humphrey r "" ~T~i M Nixon
Oral history transcript, Stewart J.O. Alsop, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • agencies of government? The Nixon people made a big thing of this news coordination. Did the Johnson Administration handle that with a particular lack of success? A: I can't really speak with much expertise on that, because that's not my end
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
Folder, "October 30, 1968 - 10:10 a.m. Foreign Policy Meeting," Papers of Tom Johnson, Box 4 (Item)
  • : In consultations with President Thieu. on background the DMZ and the cities. We must surface Harrv McPherson: The President has said all along he would not stop the bombing if it threatened our men. Nixon signed on to this. So did the Platform committee, We must
Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look
Oral history transcript, John T. Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • guess we did. M: Kennedy and Johnson against Nixon. J: Against Nixon. I can't remember. supported him. I think we supported him. M: Wait a minute. That can be checked o Who ran? Kennedy and Johnson? I think we did. We would have I can look
Oral history transcript, John A. Hannah, interview 1 (I), undated, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh We had agreed that when President Johnson left office, that this was going to be the end of it. So Father Hesburgh and I both resigned as soon as Mr. Nixon was elected, to make sure there wouldn't be any question about
Oral history transcript, Anna Rosenberg Hoffman, interview 2 (II), 2/17/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the legislation across. And it We got the first big cancer research grant, [which] was at that time 540 million dollars. That was under President Nixon. G: Did Johnson help you with that? H: No, that was under President Nixon. Johnson was dead
Oral history transcript, Lester Maddox, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • did not. feelings. I did not campaign for any candidate. I did voice my And in that particular race, I supported the Republican candidate when I voted. I did not do any campaigning, but I did vote for candidate Nixon at that time. B: Then, sir
  • Support of Nixon and Goldwater; contact with LBJ; LBJ and civil rights; Pickrick Restaurant affair; Secretary Gardner; 1968 election; unseating Georgia delegation in 1968 convention; evaluation of LBJ as President; involvement in Vietnam
Oral history transcript, Everett Mattson, interview 1 (I), 7/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ? Nothing since, no. It might be of interest to you that all of us who were appointed by Johnson offered to resign to President Nixon, and he asked us all to stay on. So the committee that President Johnson, or directors he'd appointed, President Nixon
Oral history transcript, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Ben H. Powell, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . And also on Nixon today. I think Nixon personally has done a good job of not rocking the boat, keeping the thing sort of going along, trying to tune the situation up, as I see it. I hope that we can work something out without a major change in direction
Oral history transcript, William D. Krimer, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with the subject matter, making his points very forcefully. So did Kosygin, by the way. I met Kosygin later, on a number of other occasions during the [Richard] Nixon Administration, and once during the [Jimmy] Carter Administration. He was becoming less forceful
Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 18 (XVIII), 6/12/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that, sometimes only four or five paragraphs, in which we would--well, the only one I can remember right now is one in which Mr. Nixon had made some rather some silly statement. I wrote out that, "Mr. Nixon has been caught with his planks down," which obviously
Oral history transcript, Mary Margaret Wiley Valenti, interview 4 (IV), 2/26/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • reorganize the Senate and either name himself as Democratic leader or else pick the person who would be the leader. G: Did he ever refer to Nixon during these explanations? V: No. G: As a desire to keep Nixon from being president? V: No, I don't
Folder, "McNamara, Robert S.," Post-Pres Central Files, Name Files, Box 106 (Item)
  • again this morning to determine the extx,~>.t of his approval of President Nixon's7¼BM decision. Clifford said he does approve the Nixon decision. Attached are the notes of my telephone conversation with him. }/. Secretary McNamar called to give me his
Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 22, 15 May 1981," LBJ Library (Item)
  • day might prove to be an extreme danger. Like all warnings, unless there was an immediate crisis at hand, the government simply sits back and does not react. - Lawrence Levinson, former Special Assistant to President Johnson Nixon Administration
Oral history transcript, James R. Ketchum, interview 1 (I), 7/26/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and was very proud. I can remember when she came back as the dowager empress during the Nixon Administration being so horrified at how things had been moved around the house and that Mrs. Kennedy had really ruined what she thought was a furnishing plan
Oral history transcript, Cartha D. (Deke) DeLoach, interview 1 (I), 1/11/1991, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . There were allegations, on one occasion, that we put a microphone on candidate Nixon's plane when he was going into Albuquerque, New Mexico. President Johnson personally called me and wanted to know if I could find out, and this was specifically his only
Oral history transcript, Peter Braestrup, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
Oral history transcript, Chester Bowles, interview 1 (I), 11/11/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • , including the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Without Agriculture, went to see LBJ for one last effort . explaining why at all he simply said, "No . This is up to whoever wins the election--Humphrey or Nixon . I'm not going to act ." They wrote
Oral history transcript, Oscar L. Chapman, interview 2 (II), 10/2/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • commentator, debating with another man last night about eight o'clock, I believe it was. One man was debating in favor of Nixon and the other one came along and he came on strong telling them about McGovern. He said, "Thi,s is what you say about McGovern
Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 2 (II), 12/21/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • !" He was amused, and from then on it became the Quadriad. But just to show you how history goes, about a year ago I read a little item in the paper saying "President Nixon called a meeting of the Quadriad which was formed and named during
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 104: Nov. 5‑8, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 42 (Item)
  • CEASE-FIRE ANDCOALITION ANDTHIS REINFORCED HIS ANXIETY ANDFEARS. THE'LAOSSETTLEMENT, ANDHARRlMAN•S ASSOCIATION WITH IT WAS ALSO' IN HIS l'JlND. CERTAINAS KE WAS OF A NIXON VICTORY,HE SAWIN THATVICTORY THEREPLACE~ENT OF HARRIMANIN THE f~iGOTIATIONS. TH
Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 46, October 16-20, 1967 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 24 (Item)
Oral history transcript, William H. Crook, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • used to think maybe he was a Russian spy. But I do know that he knew his master was President of the United States! And he may have gone to Nixon; I don't know. I have the feeling that he was going to stay with power. Anyway, Yuki came in our house
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 3 (III), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of the Johnson Administration. In fact, I don't think the Nixon people have shipped them very much military aid. It has mostly been only spare parts, etc. I don't recall when that decision was made--rnaybe under Johnson, maybe under Nixon--but all this to-do
Oral history transcript, Mary Michelson Fish Johnson Haselton, interview 1 (I), 2/10/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to me. G: What about his relations with Vice President [Richard] Nixon? Did he seem to get along well with Nixon? H: I think he got along with him. I don't ever remember Nixon coming in the office. I remember seeing Nixon going up and down
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 27 (XXVII), 1/30/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- XXVII -- 7 whip. The most spectacular election, probably, was an ugly one, in which Richard Nixon defeated our old friend, Helen Gahagan Douglas. That was when
  • throughout Texas; LBJ's relationship with people in the oil industry; the 1950 congressional elections; Richard Nixon defeating Helen Gahagan Douglas in the 1950 California Senate race and how it affected LBJ's relationship with Nixon; Anna Rosenberg
Audio diary and annotated transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, 12/12/1968 (Thursday) (Item)
  • the b e s t m a n f o r i t , W a l t e r i s . I a m s o g lad Nixon, h a s l e f t h im t h e r e . And c o m p l e t e l y on th e o th e r s id e of th e p o l i t i c a l s p e c t r u m , t h e r e w a s s o m e h ap p y new s f r o m one of th e
  • Hair salon; Luci Nugents escorts Tricia Nixon & Nixon Cabinet members' children through White House; Lynda & Chuck Robb are in Bangkok; last meeting of Committee for the Preservation of the White House; report on White House Historical Association
Oral history transcript, James A. Farley, interview 1 (I), 11/2/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt --9 vice-presidency and said he did it because he didn't like what Nixon did to Helen, he said, "Now Helen was an emotional girl, and she often said and did things that I didn't approve
Oral history transcript, Betty Cason Hickman, interview 1 (I), 4/10/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Harold Barefoot Sanders, interview 1 (I), 1/1/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • auditorium. the auditorium was filled. Had a program there and The police chief gave us a crowd estimate of 175,000, which I think was ballooned, but the big and important thing about that was Nixon had been there the day before, and that was what really
Oral history transcript, Kenneth A. Randall, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • at that time, I had met him, but I can't say that I knew him. This was 1962? There was a presidential election in 1960 with Kennedy and Nixon. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • good writer. He was accused of being lazy. I think that started when he was [Richard] Nixon's vice-presidential choice, and apparently he didn't open as many supermarkets as they thought he ought to have. He might have been lazy in doing stupid things
  • ; Jacobson's opinion of LBJ's visit to Vietnam in 1966; Jacobson's work with Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS); military organization in Vietnam; the Vietnam War during Richard Nixon's and Gerald Ford's administrations; evacuating
Oral history transcript, Dean Rusk, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)