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  • . Plus it protected you from the sun. like all the rest of them, which I tried to do. I thought, "I don't want to get shot." And then you looked We were all bigger, but I tried to look as much like them as I could, even to the point of carrying
  • since, in my opinion: Jim Rowe and Libby, his wife, Tom Corcoran, for ages Ben Cohen. Every one who were old FDR people, their friendship remained. The luster was somewhat off. I think they will all remember it as their special day in the sun. Those
  • and the tremendous transfer-payments we have. So that I would say that it's entirely possible that we will never successfully rectify the evils of the unemployment insurance system because it's somewhat like the fable of the hole in the roof. When the sun is shining
  • thing, if it hadn't have been for the girls in his class, a lot of times he'd have never made it through. But he could get around; he could talk you into anything and get you to do anything under the shining sun when you knew very well that it wasn't
  • certainly did cooperate with the institution because you don't become Cherry Blossom Princess to see the sun set on the empire, so to speak. I mean you wouldn't take a public assignment or honor like that if you didn't expect to do some penance
  • activities with that of Mr. Johnson and the events that occurred during his time. You began your news career with the Chicago Sun Times in 1948 and moved into broadcasting in 1950. You went with Station WNBQ, the NBC station in Chicago. From 1950 to 1965 you
  • of the city then maybe wasn't more than thirty thousand--that could be checked on--it wasn't a large city. Sun, I remember. The newspaper \'IaS the San Bernardino And it's in the citrus area, a very nice town. Of course 1 ike all the towns around Los
  • have thought of ourselves as a just nation ... proud of the fact that we have been a beacon to struggling peoples. wonder! Did the bomb change us! Now, I Are we unable to live in the nuclear age and retain our virtue? We have the power of the sun
  • out your transfer. You go down and start shooting because we've got these big moon shots coming up," or sun shots or something. So this began a series of commuting between Canaveral for shoot; fly back to Washington that night with the raw film
  • no, not another White House conference! We've had so many White House conferences under the sun. Nothing can come of it. Everybody is going to recommend a White House conference, all the task forces. It's just no good." And our first typed version, which I
  • , but I think it was primarily Justice. I don't remember any problems. F: Did you work on gun control ,at all? S: I did. F: Tell me a little background on that. S: Well, you know gun control was one of those bills sort of like the sun and the moon
  • were faced with people who couldn't care less. They were going to have their moment in the sun. From the outset, platform debate and motions offered caused considerable delay. At the end of all this and you finally had a nominee for president and vice
  • , I think to this day, has many people, particularly women, that just think the sun rose and set on the man. And there were people in the Kennedy Administration who felt very deeply about the man. And I think they turned to--and everybody just tried
  • . And usually the further up he went, the further down he went, too. He actually preferred Nice and the Riviera. It's resort country; he could lie out in the sun. That was more of the sort of thing he liked to do. G: As long as you're talking about France, any
  • darling wife, Nancy, vacationed there, and we had the pleasure of having been there hosted by both of those, first by Sid, and then later by the Basses. I don't know whether this, quote, "wonderful" vacation trip included those few days, sunning, but I
  • came over and joined us and looked at us like we were idiots because we wanted to sit out in the sun and get a suntan. And that is what he, A. W., had been avoiding all his life out riding for 17 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • to my news bureau, I write a syndicated column which is syndicated nationally by Publishers Hall Syndicate, and that's owned by Marshall Field who owns the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News. F: So that you have a national audience? C: Yes
  • about half an hour. We waited in the broiling sun in Oklahoma, hot July, and got inside and started to move around. Well, I didn't want to get announced to the superintendent, announced to [inaudible] office. I just moved through the corridors, went