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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1968-12-19 (remove)

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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
  • and everything, he freezes. And the man that comes across when sitting in a room like this doesn't come across unless you sort of unleash him as they did once with a press conference where he just started pacing back and forth on a free mike. But as President
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Watson -- II -- 3 W: Temper? I'm not sure I know what you mean, what you might be trying to--you may be talking about what someone may have written in the press that didn't know him. There have been some
  • 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
  • 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