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  • the attention of the senator to the benefits to the community. In other words, personal background on each community that was involved would be more helpful than the abstract theory of aiding education. Senator Magnuson introduced the bill, and hearings were
  • and teacher and so forth--instructor and leader. worked out a great many pieces of legislation. Together they I took an increasing interest in matters relating to foreign affairs, and especially such bills as the Foreign Aid Bill. I recall on more than one
  • . So I sponsored the first bill two years after Eisenhower. When the Republicans lost the Congress, I became chairman, you see, of the Aviation Subcommittee, and I got the Federal Aid to Airports Bill through. Later on I continued my interest
  • to the average member of Congress. usually. If you called the White House, you got a call back You'd explain it to the President, and maybe he would turn it over to one of his trusted aides--and he did have very good aides--to either document it or to amplify
  • . Brown and Mr. and Mrs. Johnson? B: I think that we were the only ones that were there. I was taken there by that young lad that later got into trouble. F: Walter Jenkins? B: No. F Bobby Baker. B: Bobby Baker. I can't remember whether Fred
  • [Johnson said,] "Tip, You know better than this . I am just telling you that the young fellow is going to die on the vine . I am asking you to give me your second choice along the line, give me some help, some aid-and support in New England after
  • and he put in a call for me that afternoon he made his decision. I called back, and by that time I got one of his aides, and it was all over, I guess, I didn't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • it ought to be done, how we would select them, the aid that we would have of the merit scholarship organization under Stallnecker and so on. So it wasn't something that he just put his name to that someone else developed. F: Now, as an educator