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May 12, 1969
This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May
12, 1969.
The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz.
First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon
B. Johnson, that is you
- 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
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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Pollak -- I -- 2
Solicitor
- yourself
in a position to have a job in the new Administration?
S:
Yes.
As 1960 moved on and I was chairman of this wheat task force--and
wheat was in a kind of crisis situation with nearly a billion-and-a-half
bushels stored up--a real surplus crisis
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K:
Because he was new and Douglas knew that I didn't know him and he thought
perhaps, I imagine he thought, that I could be of use to Johnson in his
career and that Johnson would eventually be a man of influence that I
should know because
- of the country.
And then on
the closing day of the campaign, on Monday night before the election on
Tuesday, he asked me to join him and two of his sisters in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts for his closing speech in which we were glad to take
part.
And then I
- for our
This was some few months after Mr. Johnson became President.
Well then, what contact did you have with the new President Johnson?
Did he enlist your help, for example, for a legislative program?
P:
Oh, really not.
I had not more than a total