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  • knowledge of government and workings of government to the post of Vice President if he should be elected. I didn't go any farther than that. B: Did either Mr. Kennedy or Mr. Johnson or anyone from their staffs get in touch with you immediately after
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : Were you ever offered an administrative post? Y: I was offered a job with "The White House Conference to Fulfill These Rights" as one of the--I don't know whether they had co-directors, or something. But I never felt that that was my--well, I thought
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • and over to reach you. I wanted to invite you to an early breakfast." Needless to say after that we kept him posted as to our whereabouts. That trip was one of the highlights of our lives. The Senator called me one day and said he wanted me to get in touch
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • office. The way I get the story, the first you hear about it is when you read it in the Washington Post, and the first the President hears about it is when you tell him, or somebody tells him from the White House staff. And that he sends for Wirtz, who
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with me if he read about it in the Washington Post the next day. Then, three, just the whole father-son relationship breaking up, the separation, Bill wanting to get out on his own. And I think he was worried about his family, whether his family would hold
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • [Alan] Otten, Joe [Joseph] Slevin, Sterling Green, and John Pierson at five o'clock in the afternoon. The briefing went well, with things like the Washington Post saying, "This unique outpouring of business support for the Johnson administration
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a political preference or persuasion, which I thought was very broad-minded of him. Well, after talking with George and Howard, as I recall I left and went back to my post at Fort Slocum. I didn't hear anything for about a couple of weeks until I had a call
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • financially and otherwise. In that way he was really out of tune with what was being worked on. G: I have heard it asserted that once when Xuan was recommended to Diem by an American adviser for some post or other, Diem said he didn't trust Xuan because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in January, 1963 when he came for the dedication of the new Museum of History and Technology of the Institution. I was then the elected Secretary, but didn't take my post until February. Mr. Johnson spoke at that speech about his personal interest
  • of that day? K: It was an old high school by then, the old Central High School originally. There was no campus. It was right in the heard of downtown Houston, right in the center -- back of the old Post Office building. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • Post-WWII background; University of Texas; family oil interests; county politics and 1948 meeting with LBJ; Johnson-Stevenson race in 1948; George Parr
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • contributions to the editorial page of the Washington Post, and I don't think he's changed a whit. He seems to be still reasonably sharp in his declining years, as we say. But I read now about the agonizing that McNamara underwent early on in Vietnam
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of superi or; ty. I thought lithe acti on" was with China and Japan, and this post-colonial appendage was of no interest to us. It had been badly mauled by the French and indescribably badly managed by the French, and the last thing in the world 'tIe
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)