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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
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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