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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-04-22 (remove)

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  • broke was that he sent for me and he was in the little Ways and Means Committee room up on the second floor or the main floor of the Capitol. He had written out in longhand a statement for the press. he sent for me to ask me what I thought
  • 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
  • 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