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  • Democratic Party; Connally’s appointment as Secretary of Treasury by President Nixon; rise of Republican party in Texas; LBJ’s ability as a communicator and as a politician; LBJ in retirement.
  • Harbor after Nixon became President effects of Tet offensive as a public relations defeat; LBJ’s harassment by both the media and Kennedy people in the administration; further results of military restraints from Washington.
  • in seeing if his predictions came true. Jvlc: Did he make any other pol itical comments at that time? About the Nixon Administration, or his own? M: No, that was the only one that I remember. Mc: Well, let me ask you this: he, not too long before, had
  • . This was drafted by--a guy from Fortune magazine who had some people do the drafting. I remember he had a chap come in, a very nice guy, and this group of Republicans pushed that. I know he was with us on middle-income housing. Dick Nixon might have been with us
  • of the 1960 election when Johnson was the running mate for John Kennedy on the Democratic ticket, and the result of that--the Democratic candidate got forty-six thousand, roughly, more votes than the Republican candidate, who was Richard Nixon, and there were
  • proposition. In fact, if we'd have tried it a year earlier it would have worked. Unfortunately, we tried it during a year where it couldn't possibly work, but we didn't know that at the time. And Charlie Murphy, of course, got busy in the transition to Nixon
  • . The most Nixon can appoint is something like 2,000 people, I think it is . a copy of the Green Book . I saw So I think Mr . Johnson might have been more successful if he didn't have the war on his neck and could have turned his attention to the bad
  • : No. G: Okay. Anything on any of the visitors? I think Vice President Nixon visited one day. V: I remember Bill Rogers coming to see him. G: Anything in particular on that? V: No, just he was very handsome; that's what I noticed. (Laughter) G
  • . Any insights? V: I don't know—I just know what I've read about what happened in Illinois. I don't know—I just have no way of knowing what did happen there. Possible. I think Richard Nixon thinks so. But then after the convention was over, I think
  • 70 per cent of them went to Nixon and correspondingly we lost the state by about 60,000 votes. F: Did the Vice President coordinate his part of the campaign pretty closely with President Kennedy? Or was he given a certain area to carve out
  • of security-classified documents is strictly governed by law and executive order President Nixon's Executive Order 11652 in 1972 provided that when security-classified documents became 30 years old, they were to be declassified automatically (except
  • Roosevelt. (Below) Ronald Reagan with Nixon, Ford and Carter, October 8, 1981 (Right) WASHING10N, Jan. 20--THE SITUA­ TION DRAWS MIXED REACTIONS-Outgoing President Harry Truman, at right, and Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower, in center, appear to be sharing a joke
  • !.rdcncy. (The actual recordings amounted to seven times thi.: material ultimate!) used in the book.) Beginning with the :.iss ssination of President cnnedy and nding with th' return to the LBJ Ranch Lh day Richard Nixon was inaugurated. thl.! diary
  • Nixon, and Johnson are three who did, he said. "Tu:o of those presidents, because of outside factors. didn't come to as happy a conclusion as the nation may have wished. Rut they were true presidents, who understood how a democracy fun tions
  • as well, he a1mounced, such as those showing Liz with various president : Clinton, Bush. Reagan, Ford, Johnson, Nixon, Carter-and Lincoln. Her birthday mail brought Liz some new and welcome material for her speaking engagements. She read to the audience
  • , Ramsey Clark, David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, John Kenneth Galbraith, Barry Goldwater, Ann Landers, David McCullough, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Charles Robb. Dean Rusk, Liz Smith, William I WANT TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE LBJ D General
  • , contains more than 4,000 items of political memorabilia from the campaigns of George Washington through Richard Nixon. In this bicen­ tennial year. the Library sponsored four special exhibits: The Presidents on the Presidency, American Politics Through
  • recommendations. To my knowledge we never had situations like the problem that Nixon's now having with [John] Knowles between [Robert] Finch and [Everett M.] Dirksen. And if we had any, I'm sure that the President was fully capable of ironing out the situation
  • and Senate leaders in LBJ’s office and at 4:30 he meets with Fred Weber and Harold Thoms (?) concerning the Ultra High Frequency Committee. 4/29 LBJ meets with Leonard Marks and Walter Jenkins. 4/30 LBJ, Rayburn and Nixon address the Washington Pilgrimage
  • Leader Scott Lucas and Democratic Whip Francis Myers are defeated; Richard Nixon defeats Helen Gahagan Douglas in California Senate race. 11/8 Warren G. Moore, U.S. attorney in Tyler, sponsors a get-together breakfast for LBJ with his supporters. LBJ
  • of conversations; William Gulley’s Breaking Cover; recording in the Cabinet Room; Robert Kennedy interfering with recording; LBJ’s love of gadgetry; getting small tape recorders from Japan for LBJ; removing recording devices from the White House before Nixon came
  • , 1995 INTERVIEWEE: J. WILLIS HURST INTERVIEWER: Ted Gittinger PLACE: LBJ Library, Austin, Texas Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 H: Let's see: May 22 [1971], when the Library was dedicated I was here and Nixon was the chief speaker. G: How did LBJ look
  • inner circle; Humphrey's compassion; George Wallace's candidacy in 1968 and its effect on Humphrey; the Jewish vote; 1968 concern over violence and crime in the U.S.; Humphrey's knowledge of Nixon's communication with Anna Chennault; the October 1968
  • years, and the Nixon years. So he was a very wise fellow, but he was not about to get down into this street-corner brawling that was involved here. Unfortunately I enjoyed it a little bit at the time. I shouldn't have done it either, I suppose
  • in the Middle East with more sensitivity than anybody in that last two years. He's still there; he's doing the same job for the Nixon Administration. M: There's a whole potpourri of what you might call minor issues that I might just mention to see if you think
  • sc~duled £·o r ia:oo noon on Satulfday. May Z!ld. 5. With regard to North Vietnam, Pl."e&lde,n t Johnson. asked U President Eisenhower supported Nixon'• ~ecommendatlon to go tnto North Vietnam. I sa.ld that Eisen.bower did not !-avor this. He favo~ed
  • hard to We in this agency, like the term that President Nixon recently used in saying sufficiency. That's rather vague but deliberately so, because to try to decide what level of forces would be enough for each side to have an assured destruction
  • Division of ACDA; General Wheeler; President Nixon; ICBM; arms control proposal; LBJ's interest in arms control
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Davis -- I -- 12 meant I spent about eight weeks with Richard Nixon and about eight weeks with John Kennedy, and got to know both of them in a reporter/source
  • their language, but they had much to The way to do it is to come to that office with a broad acquaintanceship in the first instance. If you don't have it, the more I think about it, then you shouldn't be President. I don't think Nixon has got a sufficiently
  • went in we got aerial photographs of Nixon's visit there. last big name who had been there had been Nixon. The We had aerial photo- graphs so we could determine what kind of a crowd was there by looking down at this aerial photograph. was. You could