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  • calls me. G: And the President got word of this? T: Oh, you bet. Absolutely. So we had to get rid of him, you had those wheelers and dealers. G: He was using his status to impress somebody? T: Yes. Sure, has to be. Yet the guy was a top-notch man
  • great difficulty with them. They thought I was a Texan, a Johnson Texan, a big operator. Several of them wouldn't get very close to me because they didn't think they ought to, a wheeler-dealer. G: Did you work differently with the Republicans than you
  • , the Altmeyers, Mrs. Ellen Woodward. But all ardent New Dealers. And getting Aubrey Williams off in a corner and talking to him, and him saying that he really thought Lyndon ought to be back and working in a more productive capacity, and that he was going to 24
  • the man. G: Let me ask you. You were talking about Maury Maverick as a Young Turk, and it seems that during these New Deal years, in the thirties, both he and your brother were idealistic New Dealers, you know, ready to roll up their sleeves and make
  • were there with some other friends of the President. I remember specifically Jay Smith was there--he used to be an Austin automobile dealer--and old Bob Present, who is the chairman of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL