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- of MacArthur?
W:
No, I don't.
G:
Let me just clear up something you said in your last interview. You said that he supported
Eisenhower over [Adlai] Stevenson, and I'm wondering if you meant that he felt personally
favorable, or if he actually privately
- visit to the Ranch; the Trinity River Project; John Tower; LBJ's glasses and contacts; Ayub Khan's visit to the Ranch; LBJ's opinion of General Douglas MacArthur and Dwight Eisenhower; the Cox family in Johnson City; the Elms, the Johnsons' home
- on to 1948. Do you know who LBJ backed in the 1948 presidential
election? Was he for Truman? I know [Alvin] Wirtz wanted Eisenhower to run for the
Democrats.
W:
Lyndon was for Eisenhower.
G:
You think he was?
W:
I know definitely.
G:
Yes. What did he
- A.W. Moursund's 1946 district attorney campaign; the death of Mrs. Johnson's Aunt Effie Pattillo; LBJ supporting Dwight Eisenhower in the 1948 presidential election; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate campaign against Coke Stevenson; Winters' offer to shear
- a five-year highway construction bill worth
eighteen billion dollars. Do you remember that incident?
W:
Yes.
G:
That was, of course, relevant to your business.
W:
Right. It sure was.
G:
Eisenhower had proposed a thirty year, 3 per cent bond
- it. It worked
out well. Of course, he didn't do as much for the program; Eisenhower was the best man we
ever had in there for the interstate work. Eisenhower did a wonderful job.
Of course, Eisenhower used this theory: get roads into these cities where you can
- was the problem there?
W:
Money. (Laughter)
G:
Money? They didn't have work?
W:
The contractors didn't have; they were getting out of work. Eisenhower was the man that
put that program on. Eisenhower worked under this theory that every city needs
