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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1969-05-15 (remove)

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  • this will be interesting down the line. C: Joe, there were forty trips covering what we estimated at the end of the time two hundred thousand miles. F: First of all, you had no precedent for this, did you? C: No, only that Mrs. Roosevelt had gone and seen coal
  • , the Blackstone Hotel one time and he was in the elevator along with other folks. I shook his hand. But of course I'm sure he doesn't recall that because he shook hands with many people, and he was very prominent at that time. Evidently his suite
  • to the time you came into the Kennedy Administration? H: Had you ever had any contact? I had had some indirect contact with him when he was on Capitol Hill. I was chief of the Foreign Affairs Division of the Legislative Reference Service, and then I
  • and civic affairs in 1960. And all during the fifties I had an association with the state government and served as head of the executive staff of the state government at one time and attended, I think, nearly all of the Democratic conventions from the time
  • such as, "Should we send more troops?" or, "Should we start or stop the bombing?" But rather [I participated] in the solution of questions such as, "If we decide to send more troops, how many more can we send and on what time schedule and what would be the effect
  • an outstanding job for young people. He was, with some of the rest of us, one of the strong supporters of many of the well-conceived New Deal measures that were at that time so vital, really, to the saving of the country, from our point of view at any rate
  • , relatively, for me to raise hell about it, because what the hell! Dean was deeply involved with Vietnam, an Arab-Israeli war, and with Pueblo , and things like that, and why should I take up his time with things which, in the long run, were not truly