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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-02-19 (remove)

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  • hope he was to get the degree. F: Where were you on that fateful November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was shotZ P: Having lunch at the Rockefeller Center in New York. F: What did they do, interrupt your lunch? P: Well, nobody could believe it. So I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Settlement Commission and rewrite all the job descriptions. It was through Mr. Macy that I obtained some very fine new personnel. M: So he was probably the one who kept your name in the top of the pile as far as prospective talent for the various jobs
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to be made. T: Is this fairly accurate? Can you add some detail to that meeting? The story that appeared in the New York Times by Eileen Shanahan was not accurate. The facts were as follows: In October-November of 1966, I went to Puerto Rico
  • into the Department of Economic Affairs; Labor was 95% against the new Department; Labor-Management Advisory Committee studies merger and proposed that it not be done; personal contact with the President; White House staff; Cabinet meetings were basically
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • recently that state boundaries may even be anachronistic. I'm thinking specifically of the New York-New Jersey area. F: I think they are. I don't think there's any question about that. But to paraphrase Churchill's comment about democracy, the state
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . various places. Just met them--met him, rather, at Of course, they didn't campaign together. They didn't go too many places together, but sometimes our paths would cross at airports. M: Were you in New York when they had that meeting
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)