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- thing to do and get
him to do it.
I think the press, oh, starting not so long after Mr. McNamara took office, began
to try to make something of what they conceived to be not wholly happy relations
between McNamara and Congress, or some members
- .
It was a fact-finding
comrr.ittee really.
F:
Were you given a free hand in naming your assistants?
W:
Yes, sir.
F:
No political pressures then?
W:
None
wha~ver.
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B
- to distribute it to the
members the next day. By working closely with the Senate staff, and with the President
using every chance he had to press for the enactment of that bill, we began to make
progress in the Senate.
Now, one of our drawbacks, serious
- accommodations section of it, I think it is called.
B:
Did he ever explain to you his reasoning for pressing it?
S:
No, he didn't.
I believe that Lyndon Johnson had a sincere conviction
that what he was doing was in the best interest of the country