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- reminiscences about
because it seems to me that that was a turning point
in Mr. Johnson's career.
Anyway, what was your capacity
in this 1948 campaign?
HP:
Well, let me make a few little comments here.
In 1948
in my opinion he introduced a new dimension
- ; served some in New Orleans;
I served Some in the Atlantic and some in the Pacific.
My last tour of
duty was at Kwajalain in the Pacific; I was there when the Japanese
surrender took place.
And as quick as I could get passage, I carne back
to America
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surprise he opened up the initial interview with a suggestion that
the Mine Workers International Union and he needed a new general
counsel, and would I consider it?
It was a long far cry from anything,
that I'd ever anticipated up to that time.
F:
You
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ments approved, that sort of thing?
R:
No.
I don't think so.
Most of the trouble I found at that time was
selling the public on what we were trying to do.
It was new.
They
couldn't believe, you know, that you could do anything like that, or
LBJ