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  • act up, you know. G: Did he have cooperation within the administration during the fifties? R: Oh, sure. He had plenty of cooperation. Political differences never stood in the way of cooperation as far as Johnson was concerned. If he could
  • . One rather bad deal was Hubert Humphrey. Hubert almost got euchred into [out of?] being the candidate out at Chicago. But Johnson was blowing hot and blowing cold on Hubert. I think Hubert could have made it with a little more cooperation. But he
  • John Sherman Cooper was the one that introduced that amendment. R: Was that a cut in the authorization or in the appropriation? G: It was in the authorization, yes. R: No. Do you know why? That's one of those things I've forgotten. I've really
  • the rules, but understanding them is somewhat different. G: You had some changes in the Republican Party. [Everett] Dirksen replaced [William] Knowland, defeating John Sherman Cooper for the 8 ---- - ---~-- ~--- LBJ Presidential Library http
  • : No, not precisely. Because Johnson would do many things which Russell did not like, which Russell could not cooperate [with], but which Russell still realized had to be done. G: Can you give an example? R: Civil rights. Russell couldn't possibly have advised
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Reedy -- XIX -- 28 REA cooperative and had managed to get electricity, and they didn't have to pull that water up in a bucket anymore. And I don't think the farmers
  • /show/loh/oh Reedy -- XXII -- 4 silos. The navy, of course, had developed the solid fuels which turned out to be so very essential to the whole program. But I'd say that was the only real problem, that of the services being afraid that by cooperating
  • ; but because such proceedings were labeled criminal contempt, the assurance of a jury trial in that case was quite sufficient to secure not the cooperation of these Southerners, but at least-­ B: Acquiescence? R: Well, you can't even quite say
  • accomplishments of the commission were through voluntary action, through cooperative action, but they were rather sizeable accomplishments. B: Did you have much trouble in those days with Negro leaders who wanted you to go a good deal faster? R
  • for their cooperation on the civil rights bill, and he singled out [Frank] Church, who although a very junior member of the Senate was appointed a member of the delegation to the Pan American Economic Conference in Buenos Aires, and Senators [Andrew F.] Schoeppel from
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] Reedy -- XII ~- 26 R: I don't remember that one at all. G: This was one that Eisenhower vetoed, but Johnson did achieve a measure of cooperation from the Republicans in the Senate, as well