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Oral history transcript, George L.P. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 1/6/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

led the group to open the only Humphrey headquarters in Longview during the 1968 campaign because the sentiment, as I gathered in the area, was for either Governor Wallace or Mr. Nixon. M: That vmuld be that part of Texas where that would be true

Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Irving L. Goldberg, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1981, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, William W. Heath, interview 2 (II), 5/25/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

they are our friends, but just don't approve everything we do. F: Along that line, you mentioned civil rights. President Nixon named a Negro as your successor, and the situation between the United States and Sweden has not cooled at all. of a latent racism

Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

Oral history transcript, Laurance Rockefeller, interview 1 (I), 8/5/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, rather than to pretend to draft the legislation. We had goals and guidelines as our contribution. F: Was the committee finally just dissolved? R: No. The committee has now been renamed, under the Nixon Administration, the Citizens' Advisory

Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 1 (I), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

at this. Not successful, but interesting. I worked in the Labor Department, really on problems to do with Aid for Dependent Children. I go that far back. It seems to be the new change--Mr. Nixon is changing the welfare program. where it began. Well, that's

Oral history transcript, Bayard Rustin, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

to stand up now while Nixon attempts to destroy it--which would be very terrible indeed. B: Were you satisfied with the formula contained in that bill for its application? R: As I remember, we settled for that formula as being a tremendous step forward

Oral history transcript, Harrison Salisbury, interview 1 (I), 6/26/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

be on foreign policy things, basically, rather than domestic politics. However, I did cover the 1960 campaign; I covered President Kennedy, I covered Mr. Nixon alternately, and I covered Lodge. I never covered Johnson. M: One of the four you missed out on. S

Oral history transcript, Anthony Solomon, interview 1 (I), 11/18/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of u.s. firms to expand abroad. Notwithstanding Mr. Nixon's statement that he hopes to eliminate this program because it is objected to by the business community, I would doubt that, given the success of the program and the lack of other good

Oral history transcript, Elmer B. Staats, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Philip Lee, interview 1 (I), 1/18/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to Nixon Administration; changes in doctors’ attitudes towards working with government; Gardner’s leadership.

Oral history transcript, John W. Macy, interview 3 (III), 4/26/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

select came to him through this process rather than through the other processes. So in constitutional terms I feel that this process is extremely important. And I think that some of the difficulties that President Nixon is facing in his appointments

Oral history transcript, Robert Q. Marston, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)

Oral history transcript, Steve Martini, interview 1 (I), 12/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

during the war--but about President Kennedy and so forth. During Eisenhower's administration I had cut Vice President Nixon's hair several times, and he's very cordial and very ni ce. Then v/hen I met Pres i dent Johnson here for the fi rst time he

Oral history transcript, John P. (Gen.) McConnell, interview 1 (I), 8/14/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

in the National Security Council now, which I had the opportunity of attending on many occasions after Mr. Nixon became president. But I think it achieved the same end. Every- body got his oar in, and the President listened to everybody's advice, and notes were

Oral history transcript, A.S. Mike Monroney, interview 3 (III), 3/20/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert W. Murphey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 2 (II), 1/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

assistant to the President and as director of OEO to marshal the federal programs in a way to develop a coordinated attack on poverty. This is something which the Nixon Administration is talking of today, it is sometfl5'ng we all seek

Oral history transcript, William Proxmire, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

defeated, it would have been a tie. There were only ninety-six senators there; it was before Alaska and Hawaii came into the Union. So there would have been forty-eight and forty-eight, and Vice President Nixon would have, of course, voted

Oral history transcript, John Wildenthal, interview 1 (I), 3/14/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Oral history transcript, Clement J. Zablocki, interview 1 (I), 1/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

was in or out of the race. Had he stayed in the race, today Nixon would not be our president-elect. Lyndon Baines Johnson would be our president. M: Z: Did you communicate these views to him, that you thought ... Through the channels that I was asked

Oral history transcript, Thomas C. Mann, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ruth Prokop, interview 1 (I), 12/4/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

became a special assistant to the undersecretary, Robert Wood. I left the government on January 19, 1969, just after President Nixon was sworn in, and went into private practice of law. I practiced law until two years ago and then became Washington

Oral history transcript, Roman Pucinski, interview 1 (I), 12/29/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

. Nixon did the same thing. Truman did the same thing after Roosevelt died. I remember we were in that 1964 campaign, and it was very difficult to get the President out from under the Kennedy image. He was a very polite man; privately, you know, he

Oral history transcript, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., interview 1 (I), 11/4/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

explanations, but I mean they are- S: Well, I later talked to Rayburn about it. As I recall, he said that the notion of Nixon becoming President was intolerable to him, and he thought that if Jobnson could make the difference he should do it, Vice

Oral history transcript, R. Sargent Shriver, interview 5 (V), 11/29/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or Nixon. My theory was the less you have to bother them, the better you were serving them. G: [In] the OEO in Syracuse, the Community Action Program was actually placed in some form of trusteeship. Do you recall that and the background of that? 7

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Nixon's period. It depends on whose executive agree ments are being gored, I guess. Reciprocal trade: Albert Gore is my recollection of the man thai:: led really that whole legislative fight. I don't remember any thing about change in the personnel

Oral history transcript, Bromley Smith, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

I -- 5 S: I think that's probably true. At one point, for example, President Nixon, when he was vice president, either thought up the idea or was persuaded that it was a good idea, to become the chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board. Scotty

Oral history transcript, Richard Bolling and Jim Grant Bolling, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

and through, because I think Nixon and Rogers, then the attorney general, or the acting attorney general, had decided that we weren't going to have a civil rights bill . M: That was interesting what you said about getting to Eisenhower . What you've called

Oral history transcript, Omar Burleson, interview 1 (I), 10/3/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. We And so did Mr . Nixon incidentally. M: That was a big year for freshmen, wasn't it? B: That was a big year . That's right . I knew Jack Kennedy better after he was in the Senate and President than I knew him in the House, because he

Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

departments. I would work with staff members, but at no time if I ever wanted to see the President, was I denied seeing the President. M: That's important. The staff, you don't think, kept you--you know, in Mr. Nixon's time there have been charges

Oral history transcript, William H. Chartener, interview 1 (I), 1/22/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Oral history transcript, Chester L. Cooper, interview 2 (II), 7/17/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

it, it was a very good set of propositions; in fact, much of what Nixon said in his speech was basically that sort of stuff. It had a lot of that. But the one new thing it had in it was something that surprised me, frankly, because somebody had 'dredged up

Oral history transcript, Hugh Gardner Ackley, interview 1 (I), 4/13/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of arrangement that Nixon now has, in which the staff has almost excluded the cabinet? A: I think they pretty much did, except for certain people. For example Bill Wirtz couldn't get in to see the President--even if he insisted on it, at least very rarely

Oral history transcript, Wayne Aspinall, interview 1 (I), 6/14/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Robert G. (Bobby) Baker, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. But he was helpless, because I knew that once a man's president, that if he wanted to, he couldn't do anything for you. You see precisely what's happened with President Ford pardoning ex-President Nixon; had Johnson done this, it would have completely

Oral history transcript, Malcolm G. Bardwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)