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  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon
  • to see was ~don B. Johnson. I think he was senator at that time. F: He was elected to the Senate in 1948. H: I think he'd just been elected senator. But even as a new senator he still had unusual influence in the Senate. As I slW, he
  • with people in the House and the Senate that were important. No one, of cour se, was more important in that particular capacity than Senator Johnson at that time. So I did see him quite often and would go to his office and talk with him- -meet with him
  • several times. And my real contacts on what you might call almost a weekly basis really began when he was Majority Leader. Mu: You were working with him then on legislation of various kinds? Me: Yes. I had occasion to talk to him many times on our
  • 1949 consecutively. H: That's correct. M: Which happens to be the same year that Mr. Johnson went to the Senate, He was a freshman there at the same time you were here. How well did you know Mr. Johnson in the early years of your career? H: Really
  • INTERVIEWEE: BARRY GOLDWATER INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Senator Goldwater's office in the old Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Senator, you came to the Senate the same time as Lyndon Johnson, in 1948. G: No, I-- F: You
  • since what date, G: About the first of July, I don't recall, 1966. but at any rate, sir? Maybe it was the first of August. the middle of 1966. M: And you had previously been with the Agency since what time? G: 1961. In 1961 I was appointed