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  • . They knew he was a man of great force . This is before he became President . Ba : Did he have any knowledge of British leaders before he became President? Was he acquainted with Mr . Douglas-Home or the future Prime Minister, Mr . Wilson? B: Whether he
  • First acquaintance with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Jean Monnet; DeGaulle; Common Market; Wilson; MacMillan; MLF Force; Skybolt; Atlantic Naval Force; Rhodesian independence; Great British trade policy; assistance of Great Britain with VN settlement; Tonkin
  • the candidate himself, Governor Stevenson, was over-confident? H: It was not so much over-confidence, I think--although he was confident. . It was more a personality trait. He just did not get excited. He was as unflappable as Harold Hacmillan, at least
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • in the Buddhist movement, Thich Tri Quang or any of those people? H: Yes. They were very articulate. Tri Quang was always a kind of mystic. Trying to talk to him was like going to a Harold Pinter play. I don't know if you remember when the Dallas Cowboys
  • Woodrow Wilsons and But none of the conventions which the choice already made. None Even so recently as 1952, Governor third ballot. Unlike the Republican Party, our Democratic Party has always had open and free conventions -- and our greatest leaders
  • in the election of Wilso~--one week; and the next week in Baltimore which nominated Wilson over Champ Clark after 47-48 ballots, a deadlock. I came here from that convention, got a job on the Washington Post on the 4th of July and went to work here on the 4th
  • more. I talked to about three people, I really talked to I talked to Henry Hall Wilson, who is now the president of the Chicago Board of Trade and prior to that was administrative assistant to Mr. Johnson and to r~r. Kennedy. He was my assistant
  • Biographical information; 1960 campaign; 1960 Democratic National Convention; Luther Hodges; North Carolina politics; VP nomination; environmental health center; Henry Hall Wilson; smoking
  • to be a federal judge . Did you say that?" I answered that I did, and Sid said, "Well, you are a federal judge ." And I said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Judge Jim Wilson has written a letter to the Justice Department indicating that he intends to resign
  • , until August 31, 1940. I think, up to that time, longer than any other man except Postmaster General [Albert Sidney] Burleson from Texas,who served during the entire period of President Wilson's administration. You see, I served about five or six
  • and argued that case. Now, I should make it clear that there were other attorneys involved too; I was lead counsel in this case as I was in the other case. Ed Clark from Austin was in the case with me; and then Will Wilson, who was then Attorney General
  • to each congressional man . that man got a representative in each county to be his county So if candidate from Goliad, the. Senator had an appointment--if Mike Wilson was a they called the Texas or Cuero, Texas, they sent it to the district, and find out