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  • for the increased expenditures of the war. C: That wasn't popular. G: Tell me about that. C: Well, I remember that surcharge and as I remember it passed. G: Ultimately. It was 1968 before it passed. C: Right. That wasn't popular, because Vietnam daily
  • to New York and back. And he asked me what I thought. I said, "If you're going back to Alabama and you're going to live there, you don't need this trip." He went, and I give him good for it, but I still think I told him right. But he ruled otherwise
  • seem to you in this new role, in the role of vice president? 6 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
  • . In 1958 you had a big Democratic majority elected in the Senate. How did that change the politics within the Senate? C: In 1958 there would have been a tremendous influx--I remember 1958. There would have been a tremendous influx of new Democrats
  • was that was the opening of the door. But then we met [on] New Year's Eve in Birmingham, Alabama, at the old 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • that are significant in how the new president handled the grief that came in the wake of Kennedy's assassination? C: I remember the assassination well, and the body lying in state in the rotunda. I think if I had to comment as you're asking here, the transition
  • of his heroes; education was one of his advocacies. I knew none of this. As the new kid on the block, I fixed up a statement. Without knowing it, I just happened to hit it pretty right. But I found not too long thereafter, and included in that statement
  • to be doing it fast. Everybody was upset, of interest that is, including Mary Lasker. And she called, "How much do you need?" "I don't know, but give me twenty thousand to start with." She sent it down on the next plane. She had one of her people in New York