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- step I suppose
was putting together your department, gathering personnel, and so
forth.
0:
This is right.
One of the ingenious provisions of the Department of
Transportation Act was a device to assure a post-enactment planning
period.
We did
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- think he had a deep sympathy with his
inferiority feelings about the South.
F:
Very briefly, let's run through your husband's career to the time when
he came with the Washington Post so we can establish this sort of
background.
G:
He came from a very
- 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-)
- for that post, and Kennedy
eliminated that prejudice.
Johnson, in keeping his commitment in being
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
- know, a lot of people who were, I guess mostly opposed
to Kennedy, kept telling him not to do it, the leadership
position in the Senate was a much more important post and so
on. But that certainly wasn't universal.Most people that
I talked to before I
- 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-)