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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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  • was then in existence across the street from the Driskill, an all-night restaurant, and had scrambled eggs and bacon about three o'clock in the morning, I assume. P: What was your reading of the election before the polls closed? What was the final feeling between
  • to my initial admiration for him was his whole civil rights approach, which has been something that has been paramount as far as my own interests. And his speech the other night to the Negro government appointees epitomizes all the things that I think
  • day and night for about six weeks; I was a very new man--I had been in the job about four months--and I'd tried to learn about it, but I really did learn as I prepared for those hearings. It's like studying for an exam, for the exam of your life, you
  • for that, taking care of his staff, as we have done with each president since I've been here, is because the members of the staff work pretty hard and they have hard hours. They get in early in the morning and leave late at night, when there's no barber shops
  • couldn't leave. And also the trip to the Dominican Republic. B: Just from reading the newspaper accounts, he seemed inmensely. R: to enjoy those trips Is that a correct version? Yes, he enjoyed certain parts of the trips, did not enjoy others
  • and night it seemed to me, we had a series of meetings to put together the program, using the French model, using a book of draft regulations that existed in Treasury but not quite on all-fours for this. B: This is all specifically on the matter of-G