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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-10-15 (remove)

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  • reminiscences about because it seems to me that that was a turning point in Mr. Johnson's career. Anyway, what was your capacity in this 1948 campaign? HP: Well, let me make a few little comments here. In 1948 in my opinion he introduced a new dimension
  • Holleman was a labor official at the time-- S: He was president of the AFofL-CIO, I believe; and Fred Schmidt was another one of the labor leaders; and of course Creekmore Fath was one of those people, too, that were somewhat suspicious of this new-- B
  • friend of the President or are the rules too well set out? Q: Oh, no, nothing at all except the satisfaction of knowing a great guy. I've never asked, not ·when he was a Congressman or a Senator, him to do anything for this office. and want a new desk