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  • . Let me ask you about the newspapers in Houston during that election, the Post and the Chronicle in particular. S: I'm not sure but what they both endorsed Coke. remember. I'm not sure. I can't I'm not sure we got either one of the newspaper
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • mentioned that at the end of 1964 Mr. McNamara suggested that you be brought back in as a more or less regular ad hoc adVisor to Mac Bundy. N: This was not regular. This was a special project of getting ready for Mr. Wilson's post-election visit
  • paper, in the Post. F: They had this folk opera out there. P: Yes. And two of the most prominent people in connection with it were born in Texarkana. F: I was going to say this Scott Joplin came out of there. P: He was born there. And this black
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • be able to find someone better qualified than I for this post." difference. He said, ''Well, that doesn't make any Anybody with any intelligence can pick up the pieces, and maybe it's better not to have a Manpower expert, per se." Well, I still LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as open as they might otherwise have been. But I did campaign in western Massachusetts with Humphrey for the ticket, and I was present in Post Office Square when President Johnson came in in the late part of the campaign. I guess it was the last week
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • believe it was. Connally, who was then governor, was doing his damnedest to get out of Byers--I'm not certain it was Byers but I think I'm right. The Houston Post? F: I think Byers was with the Chronicle then. I'm not sure. W: Anyway, it was one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • think that his work for the Post to this day is very professional, and I admire Don Oberdorfer. G: Peter J: Braestrup. Braestrup is one of the very best, in my view. He was always as objective as a top-flight reporter could be, in those days
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to raise money for the President. Well, if you go back on the records, you'll see it was blazoned across the papers in the Midwest and also I think the Washington Post and the [Washington] Star. It was a one-day wonder. Hubert and I learned that you don't
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to that time. Oh, yes, I remember that very well, that feeling. I had it, too, you know. G: Yes, I know. K: We'll talk about the actual writing of the book in discussing the post-inauguration period. In this particular period there were only just those two
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • into the White House. The difficulties were all inherent in the assignment of posts. I have heard a great deal of gossip, speculation, and some informed guesses as to what the hell the commission and the director, who at that time was Tom Carr, thought
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . This happened on two specific occasions, I can recall, concerning Vietnam mail. Such newspapers as the New York Times and the Washington Post also became quite interested in late '66 and early '67 on the specifics of Vietnam mail. They wanted to know
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)