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  • to you, you have any changes or corrections or additions--anything like that. Has that ever occurred? A: No, I think that won't be a problem with us here. M: Sir, you came to Congress just two years after Mr. Johnson ran and was elected
  • visited his home for breakfast one Sunday before the national convention. I'm sure that as Governor I had met with him on several occasions in connection with California problems. I have no distinct recollection of meeting him during the period I
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh L. Marks--II--9 else do iti Connally wasn't going to get involved in this kind of amateurish politicking. John threatened to go home. And then two or three days later, we got permission to put the sign up, so we were in business. Now
  • and I said, "Now, will you give us a courtesy vote on the first vote from the Illinois delegation." of blew up the hope. And the answer was "no." And so this kind If we couldn't go in with the home state of the man who had been governor
  • : Late thirties. M: Do you remember anything about when you first met him? What he was like, what he looked like, what he acted like? H: I first met him with Abe Fortas, Bill Douglas, Tommy the Cork, arid other friends of LBJls. He was a very
  • knowing that I was going to get a telephone call from him and that I had to get my point home about the Boston Naval Yard, which was in my congressional district . I knew that, getting to him, he understood politics and he was a very easy guy to talk
  • that? I started the study on Panama in 1958 and when I came home I was convinced that we were in for serious trouble. So I submitted to the Secretary of State a series of recommendations--higher wages for the Panamanians, the purchase of supplies