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- the around-the-world flight, and we sure put them to a good
purpose.
Afterwards, of course, there was absolute commotion,
The West Wing
began to fill very rapidly with staffers and friends and associates.
phones never stopped ringing.
The
The press
- and I held a press conference and I, because of my
familiarity of being from a state that had the most Indian people and Indian
reservations--that I might be my own Indian commissioner.
F:
As a young Congressman, had you dealt much with Indian
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mentioned two areas which you thought would be of interest to
incl~de
here, one being the presidential additions on the letters, and another
would he the development of how letters began being
press.
rele~sed
to the
I think I'll just turn this back
- the
President asked the Vice President to make.
M:
I know Mr. Johnson later became so suspicious of the press, based partly on what he
thought were unfriendly leaks by Kennedy people. Did this begin while President
Kennedy was still alive?
S:
I didn't know
- been some talk about Lyndon
Johnson's style of campaigning, as he called it, "pressing the flesh",
sort of barnstorming and going from town to town, that this is out
of style, and it's no longer necessary to campaign like that.
And
so I was interested
- Press Club here.
And the person making [the presentation?], just
casually, just like you were lifting something from a biographical sketch,
mentioned that I was to be serving as chairman of the Texas Advisory Committee
on Civil Rights, and a member