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Oral history transcript, Kermit Gordon, interview 3 (III), 3/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

of the procedural technical problems of the presidency when they moved into the White House. I suspect Richard Nixon right now is going through the same kind of cram course despite his lengthy experience. And Johnson I don't think learned a great deal as Vice

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 3 (III), 7/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

an assumption, not that it functioned under, but that this program--it really started with Mr. Nixon as Vice President, when the Equal Employment-B: Your immediate ancestor was the President's committee which was headed by the Vice President-- LBJ

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 2 (II), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or Commission was the predecessor to the Cultural Center Commission, which in turn was a predecessor to the Kennedy Center Commission. It was through then-Senator Johnson that I was appointed as a member. I was actually appointed by President Nixon, who

Oral history transcript, James J. Rowley, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

the country as a scapegoat or something like that, of course. But I think by and large the demonstrations have not been of a nature that would alarm anybody. M: There 2ave been incidences, several of Nixon's-- R: Well, Caracas yes. M: Eisenhower

Oral history transcript, Carl D. Perkins and Donald Baker, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Perkins of problems~ Under Nixon, he tried to tear them all I down~ able through hearings and so forth to hold on to them. ~~ 13

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. The pundits said that Johnson's hand lay heavy on the convention, that it lay heavy on the campaign afterwards, that the whole thing was stacked, et cetera, the way Johnson wanted it, that then he desired Nixon's victory over Humphrey's. Let's talk briefly

Oral history transcript, Jean A. Sauvageot, interview 2 (II), 9/26/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

-stop, left Vietnam in June 1971, and returned to Vietnam in June 1972, and stayed until 31 March. G: 1973? S: Yes. G: How would you describe the sea change that we experienced when the Nixon Administration came in? How did that impact on your

Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

passed; Alaska's vote for Nixon in 1960; Vietnam War

Oral history transcript, Wallace Terry, interview 1 (I), 10/8/1999, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Terry -- I -- 17 Humphrey Democrat. And now the country was in the hands of Richard Nixon. All I could think about was getting a book together about the black soldier and then getting back overseas, out of the United States

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 44 (XLIV), 1/26/1996, by Harry Middleton (Item)

this was Liz's advice, and golly, I'm glad she spoke up and did it, because I think this is something that ought to have been done. Nixon had poured just as much effort into this 9 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT

Oral history transcript, Harry C. McPherson, interview 6 (VI), 5/16/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

would commonly be thought to be against it to support it, to endorse it. Nixon going to China, that way, that famous and well-trod political path. Getting a very conservative fellow like Walter George to come out for it suddenly makes it possible

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 8, 15 April 1976," LBJ Library (Item)

, Johnson; on Ziegler, Nixon; J rry terHor t, Ford; and Ron Nessen, wh is currently President Ford' Pres~ Secretary George hrislian, Press Secretary to President Johnson rom 1966 t 1969, ill moderate the panel discussions. House Majority Lnder Thomas (Tip

Newsletter, "Among Friends of LBJ, issue # 78, July 2002," LBJ Library (Item)

as WilLiam Bundy, Horace Busby, Joseph Califano, Ramsey Clark, David and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ban-y G Jdwater, Ann Landers, David McCullough, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Charles Robb, Dean Rusk, Liz Smith, William Westmoreland

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kennedy for censoring military speeches to make sure they complied with the State Department policy. Against all of that and coming out of the [Joseph] McCarthy era, which the President was very conscious of, and [Richard] Nixon who was still playing very

Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of the senators of Eisenhower's party. F: Did you ever have any opportunity to observe his relationship with Nixon? J: Yes. F: How did they seem to get on? J: I always thought they were rather friendly. When Nixon was vice president and Johnson

Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

recording, he has been retained by the Nixon Administration and I hope therefore the health programs that have been worked on so diligently over the Johnson Administration will be implemented. The very fact that as of today there still is no assistant

Oral history transcript, Raul Castro, interview 1 (I), 4/30/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, you will remember, Vietnam was coining into the fore and President Johnson was not getting too good a receptivity in the United States. Neither is President [Richard] Nixon at this moment--a very similar situation at this very moment. The feeling

Oral history transcript, Leon Keyserling, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Phillip B. Davidson, interview 2 (II), 6/30/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, John Peter Flynn, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

and communication; prison life; Vietnamese assistance from other communist countries; heavy bombing of Hanoi under President Nixon; Flynn's resentment of "liberals" visits to Vietnam.

Oral history transcript, John W. Gardner, interview 1 (I), 12/20/1971, by David G. McComb (Item)

, changes in the way they ran their institutions, could look to something steady and say "Here's what we have to live by." Well it grieves me to say so, but when President Nixon came in, he shattered that--that growing coherence of doctrine--and we began

Oral history transcript, Larry Temple, interview 2 (II), 6/12/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it's President Nixon going to Florida or California, or President Johnson coming to the LBJ Ranch-F: Kennedy to Hyannisport. T: Kennedy to HyaLlnisport, I really think it r s almost imperative that a Preside:-tt get out of tmvn on Vleekends when he

Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

from President Nixon, to complete its task no later than December 6th or 10th or something of the sort. I think it's necessary because the scope of the commission's work exceeds anything, I think, that even President Johnson had in mind at the time he

Oral history transcript, Stanley Ruttenberg, interview 1 (I), 2/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

are in February, 1969, and this issue is being actively and vigorously debated within the Department of Labor now, and within the government, and I dare say as the result of President Nixon's Economic Opportunity Act message the other day there are those now who

Oral history transcript, Robert A. Levine, interview 1 (I), 2/26/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

that Community Action was a controversial program, and that it might-L: You mean during the '68 campaign? G: Yes. I was wondering--do the mayors still support Community Action? If the Nixon Administration were to eliminate Community Action, what would

Oral history transcript, Sally O'Brien MacDonald and Sarah McClendon, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Richard Nixon was in Congress and one Richard Nixon was about to suddenly steal this away LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral

Oral history transcript, Katherine Graham Peden, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was a great friend of the President's, but his company and his people, Mr. [Roy] Ash and others, have been great friends of Nixon's. lex was registered. F: But, no, So I have no Jdea how politics was never a part of it. Was the commission chairman named

Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Zuckert, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Joseph Laitin, interview 1 (I), 2/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Laitin -- I -- 22 at your ass, you throw him a piece of raw meat." Which incidentally is, with hindsight now, just the opposite of what the Nixon

Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

tendency in a campaign. Your own people are apt to react strongly to hard-hitting spots. We had that with [Spiro] Agnew and then Nixon at a later date, by the same Tony Schwartz. G: Oh, really? O: Yes. G: Which spots in particular? O: We had one

Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, David E. Bell, interview 1 (I), 12/27/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 36 (XXXVI), 8/1994, by Harry Middleton (Item)

Clements, and it seems to me [George] Smathers, Senator Smathers, of Florida was a moving figure in that trip. I think that was the time that we meet Bebe Rebozo, the great friend of Nixon, whom we liked. And I believe it was the time when A. W. Moursund

Oral history transcript, John Wesley Jones, interview S-I, 6/8/1974, by Richard D. McKinzie (Item)

, and if it got it, whether it could appropriately use it. I was assigned by the Ambassador (James C. Dunn) to accompany this Herter subcommittee throughout Italy ·for three weeks, and one of the members that I got to know very ( well was Richard Nixon, who

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 94: Sept. 12‑18, 1968 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 39 (Item)

Folder, "Walt Rostow, Vol. 96: Sept. 26‑30, 1968," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 40 (Item)

Oral history transcript, Sol M. Linowitz, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Dr. Ralph K. Huitt, interview 2 (II), 10/5/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, and that is--they editorialize about it, and congressmen sound off about it, and so forth--and that is that HEW runs a program that's independent of presidential directives or congressional wishes, et cetera. I'm thinking, of course, of latter days in which in the Nixon

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, on the Capitol steps, with Nixon sworn in as vice president. There was general good humor all over the town, a sort of a--bitterness had seemed to stain the last couple of years of [Harry] Truman's time. Interesting to look back on in view of the warm

Oral history transcript, Ramsey Clark, interview 5 (V), 6/3/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of this is on the record, but there's one question that arises here. As the campaign progressed, you were attacked by various candidates, particularly Mr. Nixon and Governor Wallace, and you began to reply to them very definitely and precisely. Did you have President