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  • million funny things. Bob Waldron, you know, was his secre- tary, borrowed from Congressman Homer Thornberry. Another secretary was Mary Margaret Valenti. Bob Waldron was then always impec- cably dressed, even as he is now. I'll never forget the day
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT BASKIN INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas Tape 1 of 1 F: Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as well go on there. Lyndon Johnson? B: Briefly, when
  • that campaign was going you know, although he hoped for the best. spoken out innnediately and forthrightly. But no, I think he should have I would have said, "Regardless of the truth or lack of truth of these charges, this man is my long-time friend and still
  • was elected; nominated in the runoff primary and elected. I came up here in December, late December, and was here, of course, and have been here since that time. F: This is my thirty-eighth year in the House. Now Johnson was Bob Kleberg's secretary
  • will be . F: Did congressmen ever come up to listen to you? M: We'd have some of the members come and sit in the audience . F: M: Did . you. find out what they were thinking? I heard two or three of them say, "Well, I hope they never decide to run against
  • was there as a debate coach . I worked hard in the state legislature . be on the appropriations committee . I was very fortunate to The present Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Bob Calvert, Justice Calvert, came through Gilmer in about the month of August running
  • might be able to do it today. You've got Bob Eckhardt and Henry Gonzalez, who by the way, is also about to fallout with the liberals too, who can pretty well represent a state like Texas and be friendly with the liberals. Now, to get back to your
  • something of that comp-lex too--that it's out of phase with the remainder of New York and the nation et cetera, and I think that feeling maybe it ought to fonn its own state and go its own way is real. H: There's no question about it, and yet I'm hoping
  • in 1960 ; and that furthermore, and I did say this, that I didn't think that he, Mr . Rayburn, or Mr . Johnson had a prayer, that Kennedy was going to win ; and that I just hoped Mr . Rayburn would not be--embarrassed was not the word--humiliated by his
  • on. She did her best. What did she talk about mainly? VN: She talked about the political issues and what her husband had done, and what her husband hoped to do. F: Yes. Wl: We 11, rvlrs. Johnson, we hoped, rested. And of course, she had a record