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- was--and I was
making a very partisan speech.
When I left the room, some reporter--I
believe it was Jack Bell of Associated Press who covers the Hill--and
he said,
"The President has been shot."
And here I'd been making a very
partisan speech!
I had
- what they called the bull pen which was the big large room in
the basement of the Biltmore Hotel where all the politics took effect,
and every day at noon the press had arranged for press conferences.
So
everybody else had spoken and so I got out
- could get him to reconsider
this decision, and the proclamation was just being signed and ready to be released. He
was in the Cabinet Room with his key civil rights advisers--that's probably where
McPherson was--and the members of the press
- ; comparing executive agreements, treaties, and executive orders; the influence of OLC's and the attorney general's issued opinions; the attorney's general's rules for issuing opinions; opinions involving Federal National Mortgage Association obligations
- press
relations on part of that trip.
B:
How did the Harte chain come down in the election?
H:
They came out all the way for Johnson.
The Harte chain, the indi-
vidual editors always had a great deal of leeway and Harte, perhaps
in this race