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some shooting in Dallas near the President."
I told that to Julian
Goodman and we both jumped up and ran down here.
I ran to the little
news studio, which we had set up for emergencies and just walked in.
The red light was on and I
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- there was nothing there for me to do. The boss said, "I
can send you to Panama, and you can catch up with them or better
still, why don't you stay here and start a nucleus of a new outfit
which we hope to have here, because we have this big lab."
to stay.
So I
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INTERVIEWEE:
ROBERT BASKIN
INTERVIEWER:
JOE B. FRANTZ
PLACE:
Mr. Baskin's office at the Dallas News, Dallas, Texas
Tape 1 of 1
F:
Bob, we've known each other too long to be formal, so we might as
well go on there.
Lyndon Johnson?
B:
Briefly, when
- put us out of the steel making business for eighteen
months.
With the help of Dallas bankers we went to New York to a big
bank that could have made a $75,000,000 loan just like a peanut loan,
and we couldn't get any attention from them at all
- with the organization and to win
its support and he did so very successfully.
Many men who were determined
to leave the next morning stayed on and served him very loyally and very
well--and some to the end of his Administration.
F:
Did the sudden coming of a new
- , although his
early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he
was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all
the New Deal legislation.
But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would
say that he
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Nay 13, 1969
F:
This is an interview with Mr. Edwin L. Weisl, Sr., in his office in New
York on Hay 13, 1969.
The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz.
Mr. Weisl, you're out of Illinois, right?
W:
Yes, sir.
F:
Tell us a little
- of the Operations Coordinating Board of the National Security Council, which was a new
board.
The purpose of it was to try to coordinate overseas opera-
tions of the federal government.
B:
Were you formally disassociated from the Bureau of the Budget in
those