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  • not actually meet him, as I recall, until the latter part of 1952. In 1951 his Administrative Assistant, Walter Jenkins, left the Senator and came down to run for Congress in a special election. Through a mutual friend in Dallas, Mr. Jenkins was put
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 Woodward, I guess was in the crowd then, and Walter Jenkins. I remember over
  • never heard about it until after the convention was over. F: It's a good thing you didn't hear the introduction. D: r would have collapsed. Absolutely! I took the LBJ statement that came from one of his aides that he himself was supposed to read
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh F: You were seeing the world? N: Seeing the world! F: Did you have any kind of a New Year 1 s Eve on the train? N: No. F: It was a quiet trip? N: Yes. John Connally took Walter [Jenkins] and me the next night
  • , and getting out releases after he'd been on a trip. Tuen the late hours usually were ended up with Walter Jenkins who would be going over all the mail. And as he would sign it, I would fold and stuff it; and we usually ended up by getting it to the post
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • 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
  • Jenkins, Walter (Walter Wilson), 1918-1985
  • the assassination hurt Dallas’ reputation; Walter Jenkins; the effect of LBJ’s position on their friendship; Dale’s work as chairman of LBJ’s inauguration; the inaugural balls; money made from the inaugural events; accompanying Lady Bird to parties; LBJ and parties
  • during the fifties, it started before then, that it was misnamed "Federal Aid to Education." I know you offered a compromise bill on federal funding of school buildings. H: Yes, I thought that was the way to get it done. have been for any kind of aid
  • Johnson seemed to like the fact that I had had a student aid job and that I was interested in carrying forward the program . job . I might say when I was in school I never did have an easy I hopped a lot of tables, used to clean off the lawn
  • on, one of the questions I was intending to ask is was it a breakdown of staff work, or were there aides that fall in--? B: Partly that, but the real breakdown is nothing that the President could do anything about . The real sad truth, and I'm not sure