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  • Date > 1969-04-10 (remove)

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  • for voting for the Taft-Hartley. So labor was opposed to him. P: When Coke Stevenson came up here, Lyndon tipped me off and I arranged a press conference for Coke Stevenson and had a question asked of him by one of my assistants about the Taft-Hartley Act
  • news; suppression of news; RFK never broke with McCarthy; characterization of McCarthy; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s effectiveness as an ambassador; JFK assassination; dinner with the Johnsons; press disenchantment with LBJ; press secretaries; RFK; oil interests
  • was there no hint of this from the White House--that didn't surprise me at all, I didn't expect any and there wasn't--but the truly surprising thing to me was that there was no hint of this in the press, and at this time President Johnson had many detractors
  • was in may very well have had something to do with his reaction to the portrait. H: Everything was ganging up on him. The public, press wasn't good; his public relations were lousy. He had had this operation which was causing him more pain and trouble
  • was the press. b~ing Mr. White did defend me. President's in a mild way. $assy to him and it got into He's an old friend of the And Jimilu certainly did not agree LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B