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- run against him and when Dick decided not to, why then
McCormack was home free.
But I don't think anybody believed after
Rayburn's death that McCormack would not be elected.
B:
Just to keep the record straight, that's when you moved from
- by the press stories and the kind of questions I'd get from
people on working for Mr. Johnson, hard taskmaster, all kins of strange
personal extremes.
I never encountered that.
I had a great deal of
respect for the President both as a person and as President
- of LBJ as a strong advocate of free trade; hearings on the Quota Bills.
- and cornmittments, but we
didn't have any long debate about it.
M:
Did he give you a chance to say yes.
F:
He just gave me a chance to say yes.
M:
Then immediately thereafter there was the press announcement.
F:
Within a matter of about five or six hours