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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-11-26 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Cecil E. Burney, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • against Johnson . We had that real bitter battle with Alan Shivers in 1956 when he took over the machinery, but from then on it has always been who's for Johnson . '60 we were voting for Johnson . Now Kennedy had a great deal of appeal to the Latins
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • , although I had taught swimming, I didn't know how to swim myself. And this was about the time the Bobby Kennedy parties were having everybody tossed in the pool. So Tom Boggs said that he was going to toss me in the pool and watch me drown in front
Oral history transcript, William S. Gaud, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the President can have a very substantial influence on the program of an agency like this one. M· How does the impact that Mr. Johnson has compare to that of President Kennedy before him? G: Well, I would say there were no marked differences between them
Oral history transcript, Fred M. Vinson, Jr., interview 2 b (II), 11/26/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • really evolved. 1961. You had no organized crime program until Attorney General Kennedy gave a great deal of personal attention to the organized crime program. I think when he came into office you had seventeen lawyers in the Organized Crime Section