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  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- I -~ 27 figured Sarge Shriver kept her from becoming secretary of HEW in the Kennedy Administration. Abe Ribicoff got the cabinet post and Edith Green wanted it very badly and had made
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Emergency Relief Mission and came back and briefly resumed the special assistant post while I broke in a new man when Joe Califano went to the White House. in John Cushman. I broke Then I became principal deputy assistant secre- tary of defense
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • post thing; it was a phrase, I think, invented by a speechwTiter to describe a program, the goals for which were very clear in President Johnson's mind when he moved into the White House. M: Does the phrase ''1Y'ar on poverty" fall into the same sort
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • ] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Pazianos -- I -- 14 trying to close post offices. There's a really vested interest and you have a constituency and you're going to defend it to the very end. My
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • /show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 10 Mc: Did you have any occasion to sori of deal with Mr. Johnson or his staff in relation to what was happening back with your constituencies-post offices and things like that? F: On occasions I did. Usually my dealings
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • who felt that he was overstepping and overplaying his hand. Once again, Goodwin was exiled, this time to the Peace Corps, where he became a speech writer for Sargent Shriver. It was in this kind of obscure post which someone said is as far as you can
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to the Washington Post. escapes me. His name for the moment He's business manager of the Post now. But anyway, I had met him on this occasion in 1960 when the President was beginning to campaign. I had no difficulty at that time--Carl Friedrich at Harvard