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  • Johnson, Ike Culp and W.R. [Bob] Poage. They all cooperated with me in every possible way. Bill Poage was an influential member from the Waco district and was the father of Congressman W.R. (Bob) Poage who is now a very active and able member of the House
  • had pretty much worked cut our own agreement between us. The federal government, being responsible, came into the picture and called us down, and they were worki ng towards the same objecti yes and were very cooperative. I think that had we not done
  • States. M: Much earlier than you might have gotten it otherwise. H: I wouldn't have had it for two or three terms--I couldn't have without this. So he cooperated with me. I'm sure he's long since forgotten it. M: I don't know. He remembers things
  • to them that they thought enough of you to put your name on the list. And it made you want to cooperate--not that you didn't cooperate with the other administration. It just made it a little bit easier to do. There was a social friendship
  • increased during the '60's. A new and junior Congressman is not very often called for consultaion to the White House, perhaps unfortunately. M: Did you feel that Mr. Johnson lost much of his party support with his cooperation with General Eisenhower
  • not 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 18 get some cooperation
  • to 1956, you've got a real problem in the state politics with, in one sense the Shivers group on one side and the JohnsonRayburn group irate against it. M: Did you get involved in that? I didn't get too heavily involved in that. Of course, I cooperated
  • . We did get excellent cooperation from Secretary of S t a t e Rusk and Secretary McNamara, who understood the problem and knew that it had to be cured. They knew that it had to be cured, because if it were not cured, we'd be forced to redeploy our
  • appreciative and most cooperative. And Mr. Rayburn came and talked. got here. It was very cute when he This thing was televised, and all this, that and the other. And when he got here, the Speaker says, "I'm not going to say anything. I don't have any
  • just didn't show up. Nobody gave us the right numbers. So the President was sick and all through that fall, I went out--didn't get into Viet Nam--but I went into Thailand with Senators Cooper and Symington. And the military and intelligence people
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 25 of the people of the United States depended? United States domination of the world? when undecided, perplexed? World cooperation
  • . In the case of Wirtz and later of Johnson, that got translated into the big power companies. This is all on my husbandls tape. So they were strong advocates of public power and the REA-type of cooperative, and very mistrustful of the big power empires. MG
  • throughout the convention and cooperating with each other and maintaining the common front. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • hostile and there never was a real return there. I don't see in that whole period of '53 to '63 any rapprochement, and I think it got off and stayed off on the wrong foot. M: Did that become his technique? you the business there. You said he cooperated
  • ] he was going to make it more than just a title, an office, he was going to work at it if he could, and [he] apparently did . I guess that was with the cooperation of President Kennedy . F: Did you get any sort of insights into the awarding