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- of them, like Congressman Frank Smith, and others
were wanting us to support Senator Kennedy for the vice presidential
nomination.
After the first roll call, it was obvious to me and to
many others that if we were going to stop Kefauver, Kennedy
- First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson
- ,
was chairman of one of the committees and made a report from the
committee in the 1956 convention.
F:
Were you privy to any of what to a lot of people was a surprise
when the Texas delegation went for Kennedy instead of Kefauver?
c:
No, I wasn't.
That's
- the
Kennedy election that I went on the Ways and Means Committee.
M:
Then you were a member of that committee until you retired.
T:
'66, that's right.
M:
And then after this--you are now, I suppose, a consultant?
T:
Well, at the moment, I'm director
- he became President?
Do you have any insights
to the situation between Stevenson and President Johnson after that?
S:
Let me see.
Did he die while President Johnson was in office, or while
President Kennedy-M:
He died in August of '65.
S:
Well
- was in Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and to a lesser degree
in North Carolina.
B:
In '60 there were no permanent Kennedy-Johnson campaign coordinators in those
LBJ Presidential Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson
- been committed by their state primaries to
Kennedy alreadYi but I tried to get them lined up for
Senator Johnson on the second ballot, if there should
be one.
Of course, one trouble with delegates is that
they are invariably polite, and they are sort
- the vice
presidential
B:
No, I wasn't .
M:
You thought he might do that?
B:
Yes, I thought he might do it .
position?
I didn't think that Kennedy would offer
it to him, but I thought he might take it if
it was offered .
M:
Why do you think he
- took a vice presidential position
in 1960?
H:
Well, r really wasn't surprised because I felt that Jack Kennedy was a
pretty smart politician, and he wanted LBJ over the willing candidates
for a very particular reason.
That was because LBJ
- :
http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
(Tape #l)
December 9, 1971
Ba :
This is an interview with Ambassador David Bruce, it's December 9,
1971 and I'm Harri Baker .
And Mr . Bruce, of course was Ambassador
to Great Britain during the Kennedy
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Johnson got the Manned Spacecraft Center in a deal with Kennedy-a political deal--in reward for Lyndon Johnson running as Vice
President .
B:
Is there any truth in that?
I don't think there is one iota of truth in it .
Lyndon Johnson
on the overall
- of
Hayden
and Cannon
came along and they couldn't agree on the appropriations bill, or where
they were going to meet to discuss it--and finally, he never did say
anything, but finally the President asked him--Kennedy asked him to see
if he could get
- he was on the ticket.
Yes.
But I'm thinking there was a move
to nominate him for vice president, and he made a speech--I think I'm
right on this--and said that he was in favor of Jack Kennedy.
Now,
was that in 1956?
G:
I believe so.
S:
I think