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  • Specific Item Type > Oral history (remove)
  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Subject > 1960 campaign (remove)

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  • . They knew he was a man of great force . This is before he became President . Ba : Did he have any knowledge of British leaders before he became President? Was he acquainted with Mr . Douglas-Home or the future Prime Minister, Mr . Wilson? B: Whether he
  • First acquaintance with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Jean Monnet; DeGaulle; Common Market; Wilson; MacMillan; MLF Force; Skybolt; Atlantic Naval Force; Rhodesian independence; Great British trade policy; assistance of Great Britain with VN settlement; Tonkin
  • the candidate himself, Governor Stevenson, was over-confident? H: It was not so much over-confidence, I think--although he was confident. . It was more a personality trait. He just did not get excited. He was as unflappable as Harold Hacmillan, at least
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • in the Buddhist movement, Thich Tri Quang or any of those people? H: Yes. They were very articulate. Tri Quang was always a kind of mystic. Trying to talk to him was like going to a Harold Pinter play. I don't know if you remember when the Dallas Cowboys
  • in the election of Wilso~--one week; and the next week in Baltimore which nominated Wilson over Champ Clark after 47-48 ballots, a deadlock. I came here from that convention, got a job on the Washington Post on the 4th of July and went to work here on the 4th
  • more. I talked to about three people, I really talked to I talked to Henry Hall Wilson, who is now the president of the Chicago Board of Trade and prior to that was administrative assistant to Mr. Johnson and to r~r. Kennedy. He was my assistant
  • Biographical information; 1960 campaign; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Luther Hodges; North Carolina politics; VP nomination; environmental health center; Henry Hall Wilson; smoking
  • to be a federal judge . Did you say that?" I answered that I did, and Sid said, "Well, you are a federal judge ." And I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Judge Jim Wilson has written a letter to the Justice Department indicating that he intends to resign