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- what they called the bull pen which was the big large room in
the basement of the Biltmore Hotel where all the politics took effect,
and every day at noon the press had arranged for press conferences.
So
everybody else had spoken and so I got out
- of these gridiron programs that
the press puts on.
The two participants were Senator Johnson and myself.
We had a good time and put on a pretty good show for them, I guess.
Then when I went back to Washington, I was walking in the Senate floor
one morning
- press
relations on part of that trip.
B:
How did the Harte chain come down in the election?
H:
They came out all the way for Johnson.
The Harte chain, the indi-
vidual editors always had a great deal of leeway and Harte, perhaps
in this race
- could get him to reconsider
this decision, and the proclamation was just being signed and ready to be released. He
was in the Cabinet Room with his key civil rights advisers--that's probably where
McPherson was--and the members of the press