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  • , sir, I do, thank you--for whatever it's worth, or for whatever I'm worth. F: You had the rather fortunate and peculiar situation of representing the constituencies of two Congressmen who were going to become president later even though they lived
  • home district? M: Yes, I spent a little better than six years. F: When you were on the Planning Board in Washington, did that get you in any contact with Mr. Johnson? M: No. When I was on the Planning Board in Washington, I really never had
  • to the picture shows a whole lot. We'd come home, 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
  • my direct contacts with him in that period were infrequent, although when we got bills to the .floor in the labor fi~ld, especially rni n i::-.uo wage, Dr. Douglas' Pension and Welfare Fund Bill, a."ld Senator Kennedy's T.andrum-Gri ffin Bill-­ N
  • ~~or t h who had actually put up the money to hold the conventio n--that is, rent the hall~ supply the type­ writers, the paper, the chairs, and other equipment--decided that they were going home, and they did. They took- their typewrite rs and all
  • received t he nomin ation and it was officia l, of course everybody in the Texas delega t ion just quit. And we brought things to a head and everybody went back to the hotel. F: A lot of Texans went on home, didn't they? P: Some went home. Some
  • in. Theyjust rented for years and years and years because my father wanted to build on the ranch, and then when we all grew up . and left home, my mother just said, "I do not want to live on the ranch. I like to go out there, but Jdon't want to live oµt
  • and was aware that other senators on the Republican side had problems that could not be resolved without his help. And so he saw to it from time to time that when a given Republican senator needed help on something that affected him back home, he would do
  • and I went. We went horseback riding. We had an older friend who took us horseback riding many times. G: Did you travel much away from Austin, let's say, to San Antonio? M: I remember one Thanksgiving Emily and I went home with Bird to Karnack