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  • , and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post
  • been~ast in each area that he could have been defeated. F: Of course now New Hampshire just has reemphasized it. S: Yes, I should say so. People don't realize how one vote makes the difference, and I think that Lyndon Johnson's election [in 1948
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , I recall very well that Senator Johnson talked to him a great deal and became a great admirer of Senator Taft. came that Senator Taft had died. I'll never forget when the news The Senate was in session and someone was presiding and Senator Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . I started out, I guess you'd have to say, in something called the Chieu Hoi program, which had to do with getting defectors over on the government side. I did a study on that as my first move in this new role that I was playing, and then from
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh WOODWARD -­ I -­ 13 the Harte-Hanks group there at the Abilene Reporter-News, and so forth. We got to Lubbock and I remember one of my first lessons in being sure to keep a lot of dimes ready for the phone, because I didn't have
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Jenkins -­ XIII -­ 31 G: Well, apparently a lot of them were old New Deal supporters. That was an awfully close vote, though, one vote. J: It doesn•t say who he got
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • : January, I think this would be right. M: Right after the first of the year. C: January, I think this would be right. He was working awfully hard then, and he always has and pushes himself unmercifully. Again this is nothing new; he did this before he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the In all of the countries where we have sizeable we have our own missions headed by a Mission Director just as the C. 1. A. will have its station and as the U. S.1. A. have its post of U. S. 1. S. many years, will It has been quite clear for a good
  • the apologies were addressed? G: One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips [from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Johnson at 1east wanted the Senate to have a good record on it. G: Now, in that conference report Kennedy evidently did get some conces­ sions in the final bill, some exemptions for garment workers and con­ struction unions for certain new Taft-Hartley
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of acquaintances begin there and professional relationships begin there, but there was a very strong identification of education with the Johnson Administration as a result of that conference. it M: ~ Everybody felt that the dawn of a new day in education. Do
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Then S c o t l a n d . Caffery There was a n o t h e r ti m e o f v i s i t i n g London when t h e American ambassador and I had a very good r a p p o r t . t h e former g o v er no r of New Hampshire. He was I d o n ' t know why t h a t man comes t
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Kaufman -- I -- 12 telephone jacks on every fence post around down there. So the Southwestern Bell lost a lot
  • when in Texas; using boats to find LBJ while he was on the lake; LBJ and Hubert Humphrey celebrating their 1964 election win at the Ranch; the store/post office in Hye, Texas; Kaufman's love for his work
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of his own throughout South Texas and, for that matter, in other parts of the nation. M: Do you have any idea of why he quit working for your brother? He got that N.Y.A. post right about that time. K: Well, I remember very well that he talked to Dick
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that is the Washington Post wrote an editorial, saying that Warren ought to write another letter. "Let's go to another letter, please," or something. And the President called me to talk to Phil Geyelin, who by then had become the editorial page editor of the Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , Mr. President. It has been remembered by Thomas Corcoran that when you were about to resign your NYA [National Youth Administration] post to run for the congressional seat, the Administration, especially Aubrey Williams, thought that you were doing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Then it was shortly after that we started getting the responses of civil turmoil, and I can't remember whether it was that night or the next night where things erupted in Washington. I remember that [Joseph] Califano set up sort of a command post, I believe in his
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was very happy to grant his request and she proved to be a very efficient clerk and has been my friend ever since. She is now the widow of the late Governor Hobby and at present owner and editor of the Houston Post. Also while I was a member of Congress I
  • of the stores, and people would congregate there and on Saturday afternoons mill around and meet everybody on the street. And in the stores and post office, too, insofar as they happened to meet there. G: Do you remember any trials of significance? R: I don't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , proud when you served on the Judiciary [Committee], on the Watergate thing. I know the night that you made your remarks, I think that if the ratings had been posted, you would have rated with the Super Bowl. J: Well, I can only tell you this. Thank you
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for that post, and Kennedy eliminated that prejudice. Johnson, in keeping his commitment in being LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was going to Los Angeles and he wanted me there. G: What for? H: He just wanted me. He thought I should be there. wanted me to talk to Leslie Shaw. And I went. And I did. He He'd appointed that fellow post- master, a black fellow. I've been
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Shelton, in her Saturday Evening Post article, said that it was the mother who made the arrangements. Some of the President’s old friends recall that it was he who made the arrangements. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • bi tis beb/een 1962 and 1964, and you were Commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Pacific. Do I have the basic command periods and posts essentially correct? M: Yes. Mc: Have you ever participated in any other sort of oral history project
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . G: Did Morse feel that he was politically vulnerable in accepting this post and did he resist the President's-- C: He agreed during that phone conversation. I don't know how long that phone conversation lasted. He tried to get--I don't know when
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Washington Post on the editorial page, I think it was the Washington Post, they had a list of quotations as long as your arm going back over the years, the so-called optimistic, over-optimistic statements and so on. from any member of the Joint Chiefs
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)