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  • well kept secret. M: Yes it was. Were those real cuts, that extra billion or so, or were they shuffled figures? D: Well, there was some shuffling of figures to get down to the ninety-nine and a half. Then there was some more to get lower, but II d
  • publicized, it won't be supported. II He said, "Well, I'll tell you Hof:fman if you should build a sixty-five storey skyscraper in the middle of New York, we'll give you a few sticks on the financial page. But just blow up a two-storey building anywhere
  • was a temperamental Irishman. F: I've never talked to any McCarthy enemies who didn't like him personally. G: I think that's true. I knew Joe before he ever came to Washington. I knew him when he came out of World War II and he used to come out to Arizona
  • of the words. F: I can go back before that because I was in the British Navy in World War II, and I know what they thought of him there as a politician. H: He could get along with people. He could get people in the room, and as I have often said I think
  • ://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 9 to go through what we call the Development Loan Committee. II m the chairman