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  • into Chicago and going into St. Louis and going into Cleveland and going into Pittsburgh you saw the change and the enthusiasm. of how Dewey was doing. So I also kept track The thing that really [convinced me] . was the comparison in Salt Lake, where Dewey
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and a half, and then was appointed executive editor of the Arkansas Gazette in Little Rock. That was my west- ward migration. Of course from the time I arrived in Little Rock, in late 1947, I was immediately aware of a tall politician on the south
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : Johnson had originally offered me a post on the Securities Exchange That's right. Commission in about '63 as his first appointment, but I just was not interested in that particular post. So I was asked--I think I saw Fortas and he said I should come
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in Saigon in 1964 was awful. This in effect was the immediate post-Diem period. If you remember, the Diem government was overthrown in November of 1963; the death came a few days afterwards. 1964. I arrived there in February of The country was still
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ? G: Yes. S: Most of it I didn't know anything about. G: Now, you also saw him quite a bit, I understand, in the post-presidential period after he left the White House. S: Yes. G: Do you recall your visits with him then? S: Yes, they were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • being what they are, that you could have brought a dog in and given him the kind of publicity, all the press exposure he got, and no one ex post facto wouldn't have claimed him. A: It seems especially now that he was a famous dog [someone would have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • downtown at a hotel, which was sort of a command post, and the only time I remember being involved was the night before the race when were down at headquarters . remember Jack there - exactly, I don't . but I remember a lot of commotion � � LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • thinking more in the vein I suppose of Tad Szulc-- PM: Theodore Draper. M: And Draper, and Homer Bigart, and Dan Kurzman of the Washington Post. ~lell, first of all, I think they are honest reporters. think they wrote what they believed. otherwi se
  • of 1963; causes of Dominican Civil War, 1965; military intervention; posting Martin to negotiate a cease-fire; LBJ’s fear of a communist take-over; Ambassador Bennett; Martin’s negotiations in the Dominican Republic; Martin’s book Overtaken by Events, 1966
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . days. Wyoming had only one House seat, back I would certainly have been clobbered in those But meanwhile it did whet my interest in state-wide political matters and although I never held an official party post, I did attend party conventions--things
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • on the Hill? A: No, we did very little of that. We testified, you know, fairly .1 frequently for the Joint Economic Committee, and occasionally before Ways and Means on major tax legislation. I testified a few times on post-war reconversion--we were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • projects, something like this? N: Yes. Well, there was of course the classic case of Margery Michelmore who dropped the post card in Nigeria which created pandemonium. I was in charge of the decompression of Margery when she got back to the United
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was comparing people on the staff, and the man who really had control of the bills and seemed to me the sparkplug of the Senate staff was Gerry Siegel, now general counsel at the Washington Post. Johnson said to me one day, "You really have a much higher
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • So we sold our business of '53. B: You've mentioned your partner several times. M: Gerald Cullinan. Who was he, sir? I believe hers assistant to the President of the National Letter Carriers Association here now. He was in the Post Office
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)