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- strong for one thing.
And looking back on it we
do indeed now know that Kennedy could have been in some trouble if
Wyoming hadn't switched its votes at the last minute.
meant a second ballot.
That would have
We do know that Symington would have picked
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- it was not that favorable that he was considered
in 1960, for instance.
candidate for President.
He was not considered by our people as the ideal
You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course
lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy.
When he was selected
- First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
- that time in which you're beginning to
think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial
issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain
armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
- in 1960
you know.
F:
Did you have any opportunity to observe his relationship with Jack
Kennedy?
B:
Yes, very friendly, until the White House days, until Kennedy got
in the White House; then things changed, but their relationship was
very good
- as vice president; space program; LBJ relations with Eisenhower; LBJ and Robert Kennedy; JFK assassination; role of White House press; Walter Jenkins' resignation; Bobby Baker; presidential press secretaries; Nixon-Johnson relationship
- which
would prove to our ultimate disadvantage.
Now my position was public,
was well known.
When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain
on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see
that having me
- President Kennedy was made president
and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that
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Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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- top secret things, just kind of a right-hand man type
to the General.
At the end of 1960--1 didn't know anything about this till I
read it in Newsweek--somebody touted Clifton as the military aide to
the newly elected President Kennedy.
He didn't deny
- as General Clifton’s photographer for industrial and VIP special events; being a White House photographer during the Kennedy administration; August 1961 trip to Berlin Wall with Vice-President Johnson and Y.R. Okamoto’s coverage of the trip; European trip