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- in the establishment of a new executive department.
LBJ Presidential Library
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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- in legislation; urban mass transit situation; problems of highway beautification program; rapid rail transit to New York; the SST program; employee transportation; miscellaneous organization problems; Nixon transition
- impression that the White House tried to let the new
D.C. government stand on its own feet without too much direct
supervision from the White House?
M:
From what I could see of the operation of District government,
certainly the mayor gave me a very free
- in the Navy in the
Maritime Service, elected again to Congress in 1946 from one
of the New Orleans districts where you have served since; in
1956 named Deputy Whip and in 1959 Whip of the Democratic
party. And, as I say, that is a very brief summary of a
long
- interest in passage of legislation; RFK; 1964-1965 legislative success; Congressional briefings on Vietnam; compromise on seating of the Mississippi delegation; LBJ’s political speech in New Orleans; inactivity of the DNC; media image of LBJ; assessment
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office at Newsweek in New York, and Mrs. Johnson called up and suggested
that I come and have a cozy evening, more or less alone, with them.
F:
This was while they were still living in the house?
G:
[It was] before they moved