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- for him through the years, he never hired and he didn't hire. See, he
didn't hire me. He didn't hire Connally. He didn't hire Pickle. He didn't hire Jenkins.
Walter Jenkins, who was invaluable to Johnson's career, came because of John Connally.
He had
- , and I told them this exact count, and damned if they wrote this in the paper
on Sunday morning that "Horace Busby, Johnson's campaign aide" or something of that
sort, "said that there were 425 people present. However, the local chief of police said
- it was that he wasn't around the Truman White House so much.
Maybe I told you this before. And he said, "He has this curly-haired fellow down there
named Clark Clifford." Everybody knew Clifford had come to the White House--he was
from St. Louis--as a naval aide
- in Virginia at the Graystone Inn [?], which
I think is still there but which was a favorite Capitol Hill diversion at that time. And I got
called. I knew that it had to be Jenkins, and he asked both of us to return to the office as
soon as possible, and he
- will tell you when you
can shoot more pictures. No more flash." Johnson told me aboard the plane. We took
off, he said, "I've never been more proud of one of my men in my life." He just felt he was
always surrounded by people like Walter Jenkins or somebody
- a high-born, well born rich eastern lady, and he's so
defiant I was afraid he'd go out and just touch everybody. Well, he really stewed through
the morning.
(Tape 1 of 1, Side 2)
B:
Howard Burris was along on this trip as military aide, usefully
