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Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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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Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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Oral history transcript, George Jacobson, interview 1 (I), 10/29/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

good writer. He was accused of being lazy. I think that started when he was [Richard] Nixon's vice-presidential choice, and apparently he didn't open as many supermarkets as they thought he ought to have. He might have been lazy in doing stupid things
; Jacobson's opinion of LBJ's visit to Vietnam in 1966; Jacobson's work with Civil Operations Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS); military organization in Vietnam; the Vietnam War during Richard Nixon's and Gerald Ford's administrations; evacuating

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Waldron, interview 2 (II), 2/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

used to go as a page or as an employee of Congressman [Richard] Kleberg and listen to Huey Long's speeches from the galleries. ~~: It \'/as when he would have been secretary. I wish I could tell you who would know, but he helped organize--they might

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

, that was at the Speaker ' s personal request. Pnd then the President had respect for Lyndon ' s judgment, and he knew some people the President didn ' t knm·1. Staffing an administration, as Mr. Nixon has found, is very difficult. They talked al most every day

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was covering Congress. As it turned out, the Congress came back, you remember, in 1960, for the "Rump Session," so-called. As the rookie in the office, I was the only one around and I that entire cov~r~d session, Kennedy and Nixon and Johnson

Oral history transcript, Charles Roberts, interview 1 (I), 1/14/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

, 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

Oral history transcript, Frederick G. Dutton, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

forth. And the result is that a White House staff--at least the Kennedy staff, and I would generalize more broadly; not the Eisenhower staff, but the Johnson staff and I gather the Nixon staff--relates so much to the man who is President that the rest

Oral history transcript, Dan Rather, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1973, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was that over the period of his presidency he called personally to complain about something or to directly compliment you about something on the order of maybe twelve or fifteen times. you can say that's a lot. And again, contrasted to the Nixon but that's

Oral history transcript, William J. Connell, interview 1 (I), 3/18/1985, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

Oral history transcript, George Meany, interview 1 (I), 8/4/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

of the provisions that we were much opposed to. Vice President Nixon at that time cast the deciding vote, and he cast it against us. But Johnson, who was Majority Leader at the time, was very much with us on that particular episode. MU: He was voting your way

Oral history transcript, Maurice M. Bernbaum, interview 1 (I), 5/10/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

really pertinent here, but I'm curious about : you were in Caracas after the famous spitting incident on Senator Nixon or Vice President Nixon? B: I accompanied him . F: Oh, you were along . B: Dick Rubottom, a Texan, and I accompanied him

Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 2 (II), 8/18/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

was quite different from theirs, so I never had any hesitations about staying on. professional. I've always regarded myself as a I would have stayed on for the Nixon Administration if they had chosen to regard me as a professional instead of a Johnson
; problems regarding Komer’s ambassadorship; losing his job when Nixon became President; LBJ’s visit with Indira Ghandi; how Komer met LBJ and discussed the Pakistan-India issue; White House visits from foreign dignitaries; sending wheat to India; comparing

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, 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, Larry Temple, interview 3 (III), 6/26/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Wright Patman, interview 1 (I), 8/11/1972, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

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