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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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INTERVIEW II
DATE:
August 24
- Oral history transcript, Walter Jenkins, interview 2 (II), 8/24/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
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Jenkins -- IV -- 2
J:
Oh, all right.
John Connally called me and said, "Would you 1 ike
to go out and have dinner with Lyndon Johnson?"
who is Lyndon Johnson?"
this district.
about?"
him. II
He said, "Well, he l s the congressman
- sure you've
gone over some of his subcommittee actions both in World War II and
later.
G:
Yes.
Did he do any selling of that legislation on the Hill, do you
know?
J:
I don't remember that he did.
G:
No, let's see, this was 1947, so he was still
- a corrmission in the navy or were
offered one about the time you went into the army.
J:
Yes.
G:
Now, did you have any contact with Mr. Johnson during World War II,
correspondence or anything of that nature?
J:
Well, I had one [personal contact].
I had
- you remember that?
I don't know any details of the meeting, although I remember Mr.
Johnson feeling that Truman, having headed a similar co111T1ittee during
World War II, would be a person he ought to meet with.
G:
Do you think Mr. Johnson