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Capital Airports and their Washington Area Office, which was really a
part of the Eastern Region based in New York, to a new office building
in Falls Church, Virginia.
with the people involved.
operations were.
This move was, by the way, very popular
- 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
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- to full strength when you left to take the new
post?
M:
Yes.
As we brought it up to full strength, then President Johnson
proposed an increase in the department of a thousand new positions
approximately.
Congress approved that so we have brought it up
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
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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
- First acquaintance with the Johnsons; Clean Elections Bill; Philip Graham’s background; Joe Rauh; Graham’s support of LBJ in 1960 election; selection of home for Johnson family; 1958 dinner at Alsop’s with JFK; Washington Post editorial policy
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- 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
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- for that post, and Kennedy
eliminated that prejudice.
Johnson, in keeping his commitment in being
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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)