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  • . My chief activity was with Marvin Jones, and then the Agriculture Committee, on both sides of the Capitol. But I knew him as a young New Dealer, a fellow, congenial New Dealer. And then of course I became better acquainted with him during our
  • think he was ever par­ ticularly effective in understanding the House business . I don't think he was a very great wheeler and dealer in the House after the honeymoon was over . I personally believe that what we got out of the Goldwater Congress
  • . In fact, I just know that to be the case and I think very cor­ rectly so, because he ran as a 100 per cent New Dealer in the Austin area about the time President Roosevelt was having some controversy with Senator Tom Connally about trying to pack
  • of implementing legislation, in terms of setting the moral tone in our country. Here is a man who was looked upon as a wheeler-dealer, but this has been a very clean administration. 'I'le haven't had any scandals. We haven't had a serious scandal in the five
  • suspected the wheeler-dealer image, and both of these certainly LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
  • because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas
  • reserves, dealer reserves � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh