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  • Date > 1969-03-13 (remove)

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  • step I suppose was putting together your department, gathering personnel, and so forth. 0: This is right. One of the ingenious provisions of the Department of Transportation Act was a device to assure a post-enactment planning period. We did
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • think he had a deep sympathy with his inferiority feelings about the South. F: Very briefly, let's run through your husband's career to the time when he came with the Washington Post so we can establish this sort of background. G: He came from a very
  • First acquaintance with the Johnsons; Clean Elections Bill; Philip Graham’s background; Joe Rauh; Graham’s support of LBJ in 1960 election; selection of home for Johnson family; 1958 dinner at Alsop’s with JFK; Washington Post editorial policy
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for that post, and Kennedy eliminated that prejudice. Johnson, in keeping his commitment in being LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • know, a lot of people who were, I guess mostly opposed to Kennedy, kept telling him not to do it, the leadership position in the Senate was a much more important post and so on. But that certainly wasn't universal.Most people that I talked to before I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to full strength when you left to take the new post? M: Yes. As we brought it up to full strength, then President Johnson proposed an increase in the department of a thousand new positions approximately. Congress approved that so we have brought it up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)