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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-04-10 (remove)
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  • . I thought it was a good choice, an excellent choice. It was smart for Kennedy's part. F: Did you cover the campaign on the scene? P: I might say in regard to that Democratic convention in Los Angeles, I talked to Senator Johnson at the time
  • was. This was a very great challenge for NASA, but one which we were well prepared to meet. The financial status of NASA at the time that I became Acting Administrator was very sound indeed. had been conservative throughout in our programs. The financing We had
  • it said, "Dear Lady Bird"--I remember he addressed her by her first name, and the gist of the letter was this: "When the time comes, as it must soon now, for you to choose a painter for the official portrait LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Stanley Marcus’ recommendation that Hurd paint the official portrait of LBJ to hang in the White House; Hurd’s request that LBJ pose for him; time spent working on the portrait; LBJ’s reaction to the partially finished portrait; LBJ’s inability
  • a payment acceleration, and in addition, I think I'm right on this, the postponement of some of the excises. M: Apparently the economy was heating up at that time, is that right? S: Well, yes. All of this really gets into the beginning of the whole
  • making sidelong glances, and the President just making biblical statements and running lives. no Pat. And I pictured him hung up like Bluebeard's wives on a hook in the bathroom. I really did! whole time that weekend. I never saw him again during