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Well, we had all sorts of problems with it.
In the first place, an airline
cannot haul anybody free-for-nothing without all sorts of special permits;
and we had to go to the International Aviation Association, or whatever they
call it, and get
- associated
[with] at some time or other during his life that were not able to carry out his instructions.
P:
I was recalling, at the time of his heart attack, that preceding it he had had some sort of
press conference in which he apparently spoke pretty
- for the credibility gap.
B:
You don't feel that Mr. Johnson himself was responsible for his
generally bad relationships with the press?
G:
I would distinguish between bad relationships with the press and
the credibility gap.
One is a matter of fact, one
- very cautious speeches that were entirely
suitable for a Senator from Texas.He was getting out of
the speech writing business here in the White House, both
because of his job as Press Secretary and because the kind
of speeches that needed to be written
-
of fact, what we did was, when I flew down to the ranch for the January 1st
press briefing so that the President would sign off on it--it was January 1st
and no work was done that day--when I flew back the first place I went was the
Archives, and I