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  • INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD H. NELSON INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE· PLACE: Mr. Nelson's office, New York City Tape 1 of 3 G: Let's start with your association with the Peace Corps. How did you get involved with that? N: I had met Bill Moyers and Sarge
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  • Nelson, Richard Henry, 1939-2000
  • Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Richard H. Nelson
  • this. I said, "Well, I can be on your side but I don't think I want to work for you or anything." But then that summer, Senator Johnson asked me to come up and work in Senator [Richard] Russell's effort to get the Democratic nomination [for President
  • , anyhowo I'm sure the Johnson people feel a certain antipathy toward the Nixon people as usurpers, even though they knew for months it was going to happen. R: Yes. Well, when it comes that suddenly-- F: It's just a surrender. R: You are i.n physical
  • of the Kennedy-Nixon campaign, and. 75 per cent of the students in my class were from Ivy League schools and they, in fact, considered me quite provincial. I had to overcome that. So I felt that So I became very interested--through forcing myself and through
  • ; Nixon/Braniff situation; what it was like to work for LBJ.
  • . 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
  • 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