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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-05-15 (remove)
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  • he was a United States senator. Positions on legislation that infringed upon the rights of local institutions, the attack on the free enterprise system that I classify certain legislation that's called civil rights legislation, he bitterly opposed
  • Hilsman -- I -- 3 substantive or anything else. But after I resigned and was a critic, friends in the press tell me that Johnson tells a story about that evening that I just don't remember anything remotely like. I know it didn't happen the way he told
  • every day and I even begin to realize it in watching it unfold in the press, was simply that it was the best way in the Johnson Administration to underline a success story. The hardest thing to do is to get the success story told. F: How did you
  • incident; Lady Bird served fruit and vegetables of Texas to visiting guests; Lady Bird was LBJ’s goodwill ambassador; Lady Bird flew in the same plane as the press; logistical problems of getting stories in; Lady Bird’s gift for phrase-making; White House
  • . M: Did you have fairly free access to the President, when you needed to see him? B: Oh, yes, sure . I never had any problem . I felt about the President pretty much the way I felt about Dean Rusk, and I didn't call him or go see him very often