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  • experiences. He realized that if something bad happened to him or someone close to him, it was happening to tens of millions of other people, and he wanted to do something to help them. G: When you first told President Johnson that President Kennedy before
  • in the commission’s work; the Kennedy Center; Samuel Rosenman; a national health insurance program and President Truman; getting LBJ’s approval for the commission after President Kennedy’s death; desalinization of water; Senator Lister Hill; health and research
  • relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
  • the regulatory process was all about . maybe I had been able to fool some people . I guess Anyway, I was appointed November 16, and I served as a board member until February 10, I think, 1961, at which time President Kennedy designated me as chairman
  • the Eisenhower Administration in 1953 as you suggest, I've served under three Presidents, as you indicate: Johnson. President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and President So from a practical sense it is a non-political or non-partisan appointment. B: Do you