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Yarborough never was really part of the southern group.
B:
No.
Well, neither he nor Johnson
joined the southern caucus.
Johnson and Senator [Richard] Russell of Georgia, of course, worked
hand in glove on everything.
They were very close to each other
- ; Texas delegation luncheons; "Rayburn Board of Education;" JFK-LBJ relationship in Senate; 1960 Democratic convention strategies and LBJ's nomination for vice presidency; LBJ's Berlin visit as vice president; visits to LBJ ranch; LBJ's frustrations
- and a possible future
president.
F:
We're moving ahead.
H:
Yes.
F:
But did he ever express himself on Richard Nixon vis-à-vis Johnson?
H:
You mean as being elected president?
F:
Yes.
H:
No, not that I can recall.
If he did, it was, "If Dick
- ." This was in the middle of the week.
I said,
He
said, "We're probing up this real quick trip to the Berlin Wall.
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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- as General Clifton’s photographer for industrial and VIP special events; being a White House photographer during the Kennedy administration; August 1961 trip to Berlin Wall with Vice-President Johnson and Y.R. Okamoto’s coverage of the trip; European trip
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That was the summer of the Berlin airlift.
Europe a lot, setting it up.
As Secretary I was in
It started in June, 1948.
F:
Magnificent story.
S:
One time, coming back to this country, I was exhausted.
So I called
up the office and asked [them] to get me
- .
Johnson meet Mr. Berlin, the president of the Hearst Corporation, and got
him to recommend that the San Antonio Light support Johnson for the Senate
in
'48, which they did.
F:
Did you ever meet Coke Stevenson, his opponent?
\01:
No.
F:
When it
c~e
- , higher than their place in the population,
I believe.
President Kennedy said at that time he was very worried about
West Berlin, and that he wasn't about to complicate the situation of the
Guard if he had to suddenly mobilize and send it to Berlin