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- , because this is supposed to be a neutral position; you don't get on the public
record that way. Do you have recollection of that?
B:
I don't have recollection of that. I have recollection of how I felt, and I would hope that I
told Bob what I felt, which
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Reminiscences of LBJ -- 9
Tape Number 3:
The Governor came in. Bob Kerr came in. All the senators that supported me came in.
They were all against it. Rayburn said, "I turned Bob Kerr
- this is a pI'ersona1 argument that the two of us had and
I 've forgotten it a1ready and I hope·-Jack has. 11 . This voice came on and said,
"I have." And I said,
"Wh~t
is going on?''
Bill said', "Well, I should have
told you, I've got you on the speaker phone
- , thought he was doing, and
hoped he was doing. I'd appreciate it. And then we'll look at the 1967 Middle East war.
I believe you were out of the government by then, but I also know that you were called
back and played a central role in dealing
- , the catalogs by subject or by policy area.
M:
You'd have the outside task forces going in the late summer.
Their
work would be done in early fall and the inside task force would begin
work about then.
We would hope to have something into the BOB
- , and I was a speech writer and there wasn't anything much lower than a
speech writer.
(Laughter)
But I have come on to much more exalted planes.
Now, in this library there are some forty some million papers and they are very--I
think Mr. [Robert "Bob
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in the lurc h, afte r all the com mit men
ts
Eise ni1o wer had mad e, and all that SEA
TO had mad e, and all that the
Co:: 6 res s had mad e, and all that the Ton
kin Gul f said , and all the stat eme nts
that Ken :1ed y had mad e, and Bob by Ken
ned y had mad
- he ought to get his own team in line about
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He got
\vhat the hell is
He s a wonderful man, but. we knmv he 1 i ke Bob Taylor's
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goat, he's done voted.
We've got to get some other folks in this
thing
- fiscal year 1965 and fiscal
year 1966 as the years of hopes and high expectati ons and identify fiscal
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- and in a sense, the presidential library as an enduring
institution. We don't want to make this highfalutin. In fact, I'm going to ask dumb-boy
questions, which I hope will provoke Liz to speak in nonacademic terms, calculated to be
understandable by the citizen
- with the NYA, was consciously the beginning
of a political career? Do you think he had that hope in mind then
of coming to Congress later? Did this help to build a political base
for him?
RR:
Bill, I don't know whether he had it in his mind.
I would think so
- that there is untapped fiscal capacity in
the States and loca.li ties . I would hope ,,1e could design a general aid
program to act as an incentive to tap these resources in return for
larger amounts of relativel y unfettere d Federal funds.-·
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This whole
- that. But privately he said, "You know, Billy, that was a wonderful thing. I hope
that I can live up to the standards that my mother set for me." He had a tremendous
affection and awe apparently for his mother. And then there was an aunt of his that was
very religious
- . Johnson talked about my good school grades and so forth,
and said how much she hoped the girls would do well at school, and it was a very nice, sort
of non-threatening conversation from my perspective, and she was really very gracious.
And Liz
- about
social issues. How would you vote if you were in Congress today on cuts on social issues?
BARBARA: I would hope that I could vote on a plane higher than politics. Now, that is asking
almost the impossible for a politician to vote on a plane above
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put it--evoke environmental attitudes in the nation at large?
W:
I think clearly the billboard issue, even though it sort of went awry later, in terms of it did
not live up to its original hope, helped raise the whole issue of urban blight
- in Washington. He'll be all right." I
remember that day I said, "Well, I hope President Johnson makes a good president. I
believe he will. But I promise y'all one thing. He'll attend more funerals than any
president of the United States has ever attended
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Connally -- Special Interview -- 22
D:
Okay, well, that's hopeful.
I wanted to talk
- of a
Western Europe or Northern Europe concept • . I
don't remember any
planni~g
during the war ·
years in Washington that would have involved
Italy, particularly, in an overall European
economic plan; other than the general hope .
that Italy would come back
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\·ie had hoped that states \·;ould he in the very:
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