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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1970-06-16 (remove)

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  • leader; you know, really a terrific leader of the Senate [and] was getting things done there. In 1957--my recollection now after all these years--everyone thought that he was maneuvering for the Democratic nomination in 1960. I think perhaps I felt
  • Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;” Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press
  • : The present recollection that I have is that, as Secretary of Defense, I was a member of an ad hoc committee that was to consider some type of problem in which the Labor Department took the lead. I think it was involved in some manner with government employees
  • months after he was out of the presidency. But I spent many nights there. I was in Washington on many occasions for different purposes. Occasionally it was because he had gotten me involved in some health committee. For example, he placed me on the Heart