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  • . 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-)
  • field, who had served as the Public Relations Officer of the Post Office under Day and had then gone down to Florida and had left his job there and been LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • 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-)
  • Deerfield Academy, he went into the government as Surplus Property Administrator, and my grandfather was still in the House. I think I recall my father asking my grandfather if he should accept a post under LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • the war was over and we all returned to civilian life, Frank came to ~';ashington, initially became executive assistant to the Post Master General, then was appointed by President Truman as Director of the Budget, and then subsequently as Secretary
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that Humphrey would be knocked out by double ca::ee.ts in Hisconsin and West Virginia; that Symington would be for a deadlock that wouldn't occur and would be left w2it~~~ at the post. E~t in connection with this Vice Presidency, if I was going to select
  • 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-)
  • Administration on this? B: No, I have no recollection of that . F: Did President Kennedy offer you a Cabinet post? B: No, he never did, F: There was some rumor on that, you know . B: Never even suggested it ; never offered me anything, as a matter
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Let me ask you about the newspapers in Houston during that election, the Post and the Chronicle in particular. S: I'm not sure but what they both endorsed Coke. remember. I'm not sure. I can't I'm not sure we got either one of the newspaper
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as open as they might otherwise have been. But I did campaign in western Massachusetts with Humphrey for the ticket, and I was present in Post Office Square when President Johnson came in in the late part of the campaign. I guess it was the last week
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , being one of the most astute and powerful men in the Senate. Other senators were talked about, as well as different groupings. Senat e vlhip. ]V[y At that time Senator Johnson was serving as the Of course, he did go on to '
  • being considered for the Cabinet post? H: No, not at all. discussed. No, it never had been discussed. Nothing had been We did all we thought we could for the party. When I went to South America with a bunch of governors--twenty-five or thirty
  • with Orville Freeman and John Schnitker and others at the Department and became the listening post back and forth on farm programs. There was always a good deal of disagreement between the Department and Budget Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors on our
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • never quite sure exactly what Abell was, but Pearson got hirn a job in the Post Office department. (General). First, he planted him as an assistant to the Postmaster Then when Lyndon became President, one of the first things he did, wit1lUnra matter
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Ed Hughes . So I went on the floor with I stayed at the Beverly Wilshire and the Senator stayed at a downtown hotel . We'd see each other each day and keep posted . In fact, [we] ate lunch together and things like this . F: Was your hotel a sort
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to show you how he operated. I was on a trip around the world, on leave, when he appointed me to this post as ambassador to the United Nations, and I was in Rome when Stevenson died, and I was Ambassador. in Beirut when Goldberg was made the Then when I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that day. enough to do without watching him. I figured I had Furthermore, he had to turn off his record player because the Secret Service were using the playroom as a command post or something. It had ruined Tommy's day. F: A little difficult
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)