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- it
essentially as a Rhodes Scholarship kind of program.
It was
the way to take unlettered Arkansas farm boys and expose
them to Europe--to the culture of Europe--and to bring
Europeans here so as to bridge the cultural gap between the
United States and Europe. He
- was translated in Hindi.
And in this speech he said that this was not
an unfamiliar thing to him at all, that as a young boy he had lived in a part
of the United States where the average annual cash income was just about what
the average annual cash income
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national distribution, which gave the independents something to be sorry of, that one
political party group of workers would have done this. Which gave them some stimulus
and some reason to vote for the Democratic ticket. We had many letters and phone calls
- , donate, and convey to the United
States of America for eventual deposit in the proposed Lyndon Baines
Johnson Library, and for administration therein by the authorities
thereof, a tape and transcript of a personal statement approved by me
and prepared
- got here at seven o'clock in the morning and waited outside and was very nervouS, you know of course.
Colonel Schultz
came in and he said, IIWhat are you so nervous about?"
I said,
"Well, it's the president, the president of the United States!"
I
- --the United Kingdom, Japan, and so
forth.
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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