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  • Date > 1968-12-19 (remove)

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  • want her home used for utilitarian purposes, so therefore we continued cutting hair in the West Wing. But I would go to their offices, and most of the time I used General [Howard M.] Snyder's, Dr. Snyder's office to give all these people a haircut
  • of supporters from my bureau--accountants and the heads of various geographical areas and so on--Mr. Rooney says, "Is this one of the ones that's going to be cut?" And I said, "Sir?" And he says, "Is this one of the ones that you're going to cut back?" And I
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh December 19, 1968 B: 1bis is the second session with George Reedy. Sir, last time we carried this through the election of 1960, which brings us now up to the vice presidential years when you were still on Mr. Johnson's
  • have a sense of participating." And you get the basic puritan ethic of the American people where you've got to suffer a little when you're enjoying things, and the idea that people could be dying off in Vietnam and you're sitting at home and watching
  • Watson -- II -- 14 there ever since he had been president. They had made some effort to raise money elsewhere in the country, and Texas, being the home of the Vice President, being the home of his friend Governor Connally, that this was one way in which
  • . economy was booming, and had for all these months, so essentially we were not weak at home; essentially the dollar was strong, but what was weak was the psychology of the dollar. And a lot of what we did was packaging, except for the 10-per cent surtax