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Oral history transcript, Clark M. Clifford, interview 2 (II), 7/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, and also I think it has resulted in substantially more public attention than I had anticipated. Part of that would be due to the manner in which President Nixon chose to treat the article; of course that added a good deal of the attention given

Oral history transcript, William Cochrane, interview 1 (I), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

way. But they both voted with the Democrats, and Strom and--Wayne Morse became a Democrat. And that made it 49-47, and Nixon didn't get to break the tie. It was during this, I think that was done. I think the Senate opened on January 5 and ratified

Oral history transcript, Charles Evers, interview 1 (I), 4/3/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was big enough to see that and step down. F: I always had the feeling--this is getting way ahead of the story--that he would run in 1968 if Nixon got nominated, because he just would have liked to take him on. But he fooled me on that and evidently

Oral history transcript, John G. Feild, interview 3 (III), 10/12/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kennedy or Johnson; it was done much later, perhaps in the seventies under Nixon--all of the temporary employees by an act of Congress were made permanent civil service employees in one stroke, like that. That enabled the Post Office to develop a universal

Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

normally that we would have a tremendous influx, particularly in the month of January; but I read in the paper today where there is a strong possibility that Mr. Nixon will not have any kind of a parade. There's even a possibility they may not have 23

Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)

: There was anxiety about it, but it wasn't dominant. It wasn't anything like as acute as the one that our friends had in 1973. D: You mean Nixon and [?] B: Yes. D: What do you think was Johnson's general objective here? To try and get this settled as quickly

Oral history transcript, Ellsworth Bunker, interview 2 (II), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

both of the Johnson and the Nixon Administrations. They did, after Tet, urge me to get out, I mean to give some talks for radio and TV and of course I had the press, conferences right along anyway. And I did urge Thieu to get out and talk. G: Did any

Oral history transcript, Phillip S. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 3/7/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

aspects of this kind of a transition are the relationships among the people. a different style than President Johnson had. President Nixon has He brings a whole new crowd of folks into the White House, each of whom also has his own style, adapted

Oral history transcript, Chester R. Huntley, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

evidence that Johnson did in fact sit on his hands or even encourage the Nixon candidacy over the Humphrey candidacy? H: I have no evidence of that at all. F: In general, you've got a long distinguished career as a newsman, how would you, try to project

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or the second night after that, Richard Nixon gave a party for the leaders of Congress, Taft and Lyndon, or Styles Bridges and Lyndon. I think Styles Bridges was leader before he quit and Taft came, and then Lyndon as Democratic leader--that kind of a deal

Oral history transcript, Luther E. Jones, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/13/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

And as I said it distresses me, because if he couldn't, his failure means that probably it's not going to be Nixon's not even in his league~ solved~ in my opinion. M: I thank you for the interview and thank you for your time. J: Okay. [End of Tape

Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

in the way that President Eisenhower used it, and the way in which I gather President Nixon is using them now. M: Cabinet meetings were pretty much pro forma, that type thing? D: Well, they very seldom took place and when they did take place they usually

Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Frederick Flott, interview 2 (II), 7/24/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Yes, that's true. I know all those horror stories from the Nixon-Lodge campaign, but, well, I think the press did very much respect the job he was doing in Vietnam--trying to do. They respected certainly his patriotic motivation in being

Oral history transcript, John C. Stennis, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

know some of the burdens of I've been here with Truman and Eisenhower and John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and now Mr. Nixon, and I think as much as you can, you've got to back, generally, you've got to back constituted authority. But that doesn't

Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to carry Texas for Humphrey. thought we had a pretty good shot at it. I'd always When we started it was so bad I wanted to be sure we weren't embarrassed and humiliated. After that I began to think as we moved, Nixon was, I thought, freezing; he began

Oral history transcript, Lewis W. Walt, interview 1 (I), 1/24/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

with a family--shot to pieces in this war--and that's the way he felt about it. M: I notice that with the new Administration coming in one of the programs that Mr. Nixon talked about, and there are now some Congressmen talking about it, is trying to convert

Oral history transcript, Phil G. Goulding, interview 1 (I), 1/3/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

have not been on the ticket, and then there would have been more chance of Nixon winning. Then he still would have been a Democratic Majority Leader in a Republican Administration. I don't know whether that many steps went through his mind or not. P

Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

that I rather wondered at his giving up that powerful position that he had as Senate Leader to be Vice-President. But you know, I think there's probably starting with him, and maybe before that with Eisenhower and Dick Nixon, a growing awareness

Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Bertrand Harding, interview 2 (II), 11/25/1968, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

: Particularly in participation of the poor in the program. H: That's right. And he just recently made a statement as a matter of fact along those lines that I just read in the press within the last couple of days. He said he felt that the Nixon

Oral history transcript, Luther Holcomb, interview 1 (I), 6/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Nixon reappointed me. B: Congratulations. H: I mean, it's uncanny that I'd be talking to you when I'm to continue as vice chairman for a five year appointment. surprise. B: That's excellent. It kind of came as a LBJ Presidential Library http

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 10 (X), 10/14/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Nixon issued an opinion that the Senate ought to be able to change its rules. R: That is one of the most dishonest opinions that has ever come down the pike. What he ruled was the Senate can change its rules by a majority vote. Well, of course

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 2 (II), 4/25/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 6 My first exposure to Richard Nixon was in connection with the Commission's reporting of cases where loyalty and security conditions had resulted

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to wander through this bureaucracy and to have some notions of where the real pressure points are, and hopefully I'll be able to use that knowledge. B: Incidentally, since you've annOUnced your resignation, the school program which at first the Nixon

Oral history transcript, John L. Monahan, interview 1 (I), 2/14/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Johnson often do this kind of thing himself on the phone--get on the phone and call members? M: Yes. More so than President Kennedy. B: Have you had enough of the Nixon Administration to be able to see any kind of pattern in it? M: No, because

Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that was abandoned immediately after Nixon came in. G: How about his legislative liaison operation? M: It was very good, yes, because he knew the people and the key members of the Congress. Did it work pretty well? And the reason that Eighty-Ninth was such a tre

Oral history transcript, David G. Nes, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

might have begun our opening to China at that time if the China lobby had not been so strong here, that we could have proceeded along the lines that the Nixon Administration eventually proceeded, talked to the Chinese about Vietnam. After all, they'd

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 1 (I), 3/20/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

How Vietnam influenced budget requests during the war; how LBJ’s decisions were affected by all the Vietnam-related pressures on him; the LBJ to Nixon transition; wage and price controls; rationing rumors. Oral history attached to memorial tributes

Oral history transcript, Mollie Parnis, interview 1 (I), 10/13/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

seventies. P: Seventies. It was right after Henry Kissinger had gone with Nixon, and he was coming to my house for the first time. When I reached my office, I wasn't here an hour before the phone rang, and it was the President. He said, "Moll ie, I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Pechman, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

Development to be on the staff of their research group, which was then headed by Herbert Stein, who is now a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under the Nixon Administration. M: I'm not too familiar with this Committee for Economic Development. What

Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

think that Mr. Nixon learned how to do this, but while between government jobs. He had a long way to go, but he had nothing but time and money, so he used both and was better trained when he LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL

Oral history transcript, Earle Wheeler, interview 1 (I), 8/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Uow this was a practice that was followed also by preceding presidents and also by Mr. Nixon. But, for example, before we put the budget to bed, as always, there was a meeting of the President with the Secretary of Defense

Oral history transcript, William Narva, interview 1 (I), 7/18/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. It was, as I said, a very relaxed, cordial--there was an exchange of how things were going. He in a very animated fashion told me he was going to have breakfast the next morning with President Nixon, and as I said, was very cordial and very animated. [He

Oral history transcript, Roy Millenson, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

even recall ever hearing of him. We had other members we were active with like Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon, but Lyndon Johnson, 2 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Read -- Interview I -- 16 four years of Nixon than the remaining two and a half months of Johnson. M: What about in this last two and a half month period? The press has now made a major wrestling on mat or something or other between Secretary Rusk

Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with the extension service. You had 4-H Clubs; white 4-H clubs, black 4-H clubs. I remember even in the Nixon Administration Marian Edelman--have you talked to Marian? G: She's on my list. I haven't talked to her yet. R: Have you met her? G: No, I don't believe

Oral history transcript, George R. Brown, interview 2 (II), 8/6/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

automatically the best that's in him . got, no matter who he is . I think Johnson did it, and I think Nixon will do it, and I think Eisenhower did it . best they had . He gives the best he's I think they all put the Now where that best comes to in your

Oral history transcript, Gordon Bunshaft, interview 1 (I), 6/25/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the political figure like he is to take the time to [do this] . I don't think you would expect that of Nixon, and I don't think he would . Johnson felt it was a good thing, and the reason the Hirshhorn is around is, I think, through the efforts of President

Oral history transcript, Joseph H. (Joe) Carter, interview 1 (I), 12/3/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

and voted for him; I am proud of it. I wish you'd tell Mr. Nixon. B: Maybe he will someday have an opportunity to see all of this. To get on politics itself, what is involved in being an advance man on LBJ Presidential Library http