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Oral history transcript, James C. Hagerty, interview 1 (I), 11/16/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • and a possible future president. F: We're moving ahead. H: Yes. F: But did he ever express himself on Richard Nixon vis-à-vis Johnson? H: You mean as being elected president? F: Yes. H: No, not that I can recall. If he did, it was, "If Dick
Oral history transcript, J.R. Parten, interview 2 (II), 2/29/1976, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • much worried about Johnson when Humphrey was running against Nixon. pretty late. I felt that Johnson was sitting on the fence until I have no concrete proof of this. But, knowing that [Governor] Connally was talking for and reputed to be raising
  • programs; Parten’s opinion Nixon; future problems with Congress under Nixon; the energy problem.
  • Parten, J. R. (Jubal Richard), 1896-1992
Oral history transcript, John William Theis, interview 1 (I), 12/1/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and the vice presidency in those days expected. There are some personality things which I always found fascinating about him. He was a complete extrovert, as Jive indicated a little earlier, unlike Richard Nixon who was an introvert and an obviously very
  • Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; LBJ's legislative talents; generosity; LBJ's support of Diem; 1961 Vietnam trip; India stop; camel driver incident in Pakistan; LBJ's relationship with Richard Russell; LBJ's relationship
Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of Richard Nixon. But for that reason, I concluded that the only man who had a LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Newton Minow, interview 1 (I), 3/19/1971, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • : In a sense you were girding for 1956, in case Richard Nixon should be the president before 1956? M: Well, that at least was the speculation. So we went to Texas. Governor Stevenson gave a lecture at the University of Texas. Then we got in the car
Oral history transcript, George Christian and Harry Middleton, interview S-1, 4/1/1996 (Item)
  • them all with him from Capital Hill to the White House. In the very early days of his presidency he called the man in the Senate who had been his mentor, the venerable, Richard Russell. And we have a recording of a little part of that conversation
  • the Vietnam War changed under Richard Nixon's leadership; fear of Chinese and Soviet involvement in Vietnam; comparing LBJ's and Bill Clinton's sources of information; the relationships between presidents and former presidents; LBJ's great capacity for taking
Oral history transcript, Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 defeated Senator Bill Knowland, who was then the Minority Leader in the Senate, the first time, and defeated Richard Nixon, who had defeated
  • Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Cheryl Chessman case; National Advisory Committee; Democratic candidates; 1962 campaign against Richard Nixon; Cuban crisis; Rumford Housing bill; Jess Unruh; Western Governors
Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • and 1960, when names of Democratic President candidates were mentioned, that Mr. Johnson's name was always conspicuous. M: What was your assessment of the 1960 election, since it was such a close race between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon? A: Of course
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: RICHARD M. SCAMMON (Tape #1) INTERVIEWER: STEVE GOODELL More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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  • Scammon, Richard M. (Richard Montgomery), 1915-2001
  • Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell
  • Richard M. Scammon
Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a candidate from the West as a vice president . I think Mr . Johnson was right . I honestly believe, and the facts haven't shown otherwise, that John went back to the Nixon group to become vice president, and then Agnew's financial immorality blew up
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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  • Nelson, Richard Henry, 1939-2000
  • Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
  • Richard H. Nelson
Oral history transcript, George Wallace, interview 1 (I), 5/15/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • --was there as president of the National Governors' Conference, and Governor [Richard] Hughes of New LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Ernest Gruening, interview 1 (I), 4/23/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was influential. F: Did Johnson have pretty good staff help? G: Well, I mean he did very effective stuff. of the scaly methods of Richard Nixon. Johnson didn't use any I mean he talked frankly to people and gave his point of view and presented it logically
Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Goldschmidt --9 vice-presidency and said he did it because he didn't like what Nixon did to Helen, he said, "Now Helen was an emotional girl, and she often said and did things that I didn't approve
  • and generosity; Jesse Kellam; social security disability insurance; AMA; Senator Kerr; LBJ relationship with Senator Richard Russell; LBJ as a liberal; LBJ and the Presidency; mobilization for youth; Community Action Program; legal services program; Head Start
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, Joseph Alsop, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • a problem ever to shove under the rug anyway. The facts of the problem, the real nature of his choice, were not being changed in the smallest degree by what I wrote. very angry. It just made him [Richard] Goodwin, who was still in the White House, LBJ
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, Warren I. Cikins, interview 1 (I), 5/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . And yet all the fear and worry and this concern was shared--people have a very erroneous impression, I know Richard Nixon did, that people in the federal bureaucracy are liberal. Many of the people I run into in the federal bureaucracy are quite
Oral history transcript, Frank E. Moss, interview 1 (I), 2/16/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ever remember the name of Lyndon Johnson, when he was still working for I guess it was [Richard] Kleberg in the House. G: Do you recall the first time that you met him? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Corcoran, interview 3 (III), 9/9/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • north, the intellectual guys. There was plenty in Lyndon to appeal to an easterner. Christ, he was doing what the Kennedys hadn't done. Christ, he was doing what these guys wanted done. But in the same way, you know, he took on this guy [Richard] Goodwin
Oral history transcript, Sherwin J. Markman, interview 1 (I), 5/21/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • And tried to keep my contact at absolutely a ground Didn't talk to leaders. There was one difficulty: whether we should tell [r",layor Richard] Daley I was in there, because politically.. We finally decided, Watson and I -- he may consulted
Oral history transcript, Charles M. Simpson and John McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 5/2/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
Oral history transcript, Charles A. Halleck, interview 1 (I), 9/19/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • the Democrats side and not from Southern Democrats. And so this gentleman from Chicago whose name slips me, but Mayor (Richard) Daley (of Chicago) took him out right after that time in the primary. He was to offer the first amendment, but overnight he changed
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, Elie Abel, interview 1 (I), 1/19/1970, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • later put itlr:aifferent words on this program. He said, 11 I 've gotten to the stage with the Congress where they won't do anything for me. I don't care who the next president is, whether his name is Gene McCarthy or Richard Nixon or Bobby Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Bartlett, interview 1 (I), 5/6/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • within the Wh i t e House, and I think it deprived the public of a really full understanding of the problems that the Eisenhower Administration were up against. My view of it is that the open approach, as the Nixon people call it, is really a pretty good
Oral history transcript, David Dellinger, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1982, by Ted Gittinger (Item)
  • to give one more example of that. When we held a counterinaugural--in 1969, it would have been--to the first inauguration of Richard Nixon, a wounded Vietnam veteran who was not supposed to leave the hospital sneaked out of the hospital--against doctors
Oral history transcript, A. Willis Robertson, interview 1 (I), 9/27/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • : At any rate, in the letter you sent to Dr. Frantz, you pointed out that you were on a committee with Richard Kleberg. You were the chairman .... R: Yes. M· In such a capacity you must have run into his young as sistant, Lyndon Baines Johnson. R: Oh
Oral history transcript, Robert Komer, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • on up through the Eisenhower Administration. national estimates business. Estimates. F: I was one of the charter members of the We wrote the National Intelligence I wrote some of the first estimates on the Soviet threat. I might add we got Richard
Oral history transcript, Alfred B. Fitt, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • Biographical information; duties in Manpower & Reserve Affairs; civil works program; overcrowding at Arlington National Cemetery; McNamara; Project 100,000; Adam Yarmolinsky; Steve Ailes; Senator Richard Russell; Mr. Vinson; Operation Transition
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 3 (III), 6/2/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, William P. Bundy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , 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, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 2 (II), 1/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • upset. The people who make a big play out of this have been Republicans in the Congress. I don't know if President Nixon will have this much trouble or not, but my goodness, we certainly had-F: To a certain extent is this Congressional reluctance
  • departments involved; gold pool; strengthening of the dollar; promotion of Common Market in Europe; surcharge extension; tax reform proposal; consultation by Nixon staff; 1967 inconsistent economic forecasting; Group of Ten; estimation of LBJ
Oral history transcript, Robert D. S. Novak, interview 1 (I), 11/15/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with Rowland Evans, and author of Lyndon B. Johnson, An Exercise in Power, as well as other books, including one now on the Nixons. To begin with, you were still a fairly junior congressional reporter at the time your book begins. How close on that level were
Oral history transcript, David Dubinsky, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • .) Mitchell was Secretary of Labor--he favored it, but evidently he was considered a liberal, and Eisenhower's attitude, and even Nixon in those days. We visited Nixon too. We didn't get any too warm a reception or too friendly a feeling or sympathy. From
Oral history transcript, W. Averell Harriman, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, James M. Nabrit, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • would have gone down as one of our great Presidents. But he had that Vietnam thing on him. And if Nixon isn't careful, Vietnam will get him too. I also think he will be a bigger President because he didn't run. LBJ Presidential Library http