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- recall some of the conversations on the telephone.
You know, I'd be in the room when Johnson was trying to defeat John
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
- was the Democratic nominee for the vice
presidency, along with a telephone lineman and myself in a helicopter
for two people, whereby that we had to get out and go through the
cockleburs to hitchhike a ride over to my classmate, who presently is
the lieutenant
- .
thrown there together.
So I had to converse with him, go over what we
were doing and so forth.
G:
Would you say that it was that year, 1951, that you and LBJ sort of
developed an alliance?
B:
Yes.
I think because of his position, being the deputy