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  • and this is now my fortieth year on Capitol Hill . F: He's finally going home, isn't he? M: I'm just trying to make up my mind . F: No, I don't mean you . M: Oh, oh, yes, sir . F: Colmer . M: Bill Colmer is going home . F: I haven't seen him yet
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh June 17, 1969 B: This is the interview with Bayard Rustin. Sir, to start pretty far back in time, did you have any knowledge of Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate? R: Yes, I did. Of course, I suppose everybody heard
  • Alvin and Sam Rayburn. They both sort of treated him like a son. Lyndon always said "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" to Alvin. MLG: Did he call him Senator Wirtz? VFD: Yes, Senator Wirtz. He had been a state senator. extremely attractive man. He
  • to the side and said to me, "You can go home with me and you can stay at The Elms." F: I said, "Yes, sir." Had you had any chance meanwhile to communicate with your wife? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • : Yes, or in what we call the D.J. file on the bill. I suppose that I may have some personal notes of my own at home on it as well. I tried to save this marked-up redraft so that one could compare it against the earlier draft and see what the changes
  • ; involvement in getting a count in the House; disharmony between LBJ and Udall over the removal of land from public interest; Sparky Matsunaga; Home Rule; the Texas delegation; Wilbur Mills; Republican members of the Texas delegation; Yarborough-LBJ
  • I had come to the Senate, about two-thirds of the senators on the Republican side were conservative and thought more like I did, and twothirds of the senators on the Democratic side were far out to the left. Philosophically, I just felt more at home