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  • stone and every citizen. Lyndon's program when he went home to the district was to go to every post office in the district. At one point he wrote somebody that that meant visiting a hundred or more small towns and less than thirty days to do it in. So he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • dog hospital. T here'd been a story in the Washington Post about his getting lost. M: A digression, but I'm going to ask it here. Who named your dogs? It might be said that-- J: There was a lack of imagination? (Laughter) Most decidedly. His
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was coming down from his communism and he was criticized. He had to defend himself. And he did in a speech in their party circles. Those secret speeches almost always leak. The Washington Post has got a long section this morning on something in the Justice
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • no post offices, there were no teachers. If they were there, they got killed. So the government con- trolled the cities and the enemy controlled the countryside. G: Now, when you say controlled, let me be clear: Could the Viet Cong keep
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was working for, posted on what I was doing. I will say one thing about Bill Moyers, when he delegated authority, he delegated authority. The whole thing was in my hands, but I used to apprise him of the progress. At one point I said to him on the phone
  • Moyers’ reputation; James Moyers; LBJ’s speedboat and amphicar; a Washington Post article about Laitin; Moyers brothers disliking Marvin Watson; Watson directing phone calls and his poor reputation; Laitin leaving his job at the White House; not being
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of things . I don't know whether he used those words or not, "Every Man a King" and so on . There had been two or three incidents where the post office had alleg­ edly discovered bombs being sent to Huey Long . We sort of discounted that and thought
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to the President on Wednesday; Goldman resigns: Roche becomes special consultant; so post hoc, ergo propter hoc, it stands to reason, you see, that I was his replacement. Whereas, in fact, my thing had already been locked up, and I suppose this thing [Roche's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . there. And Actually the rent, I roomed with She had a little house; it's still standing down It's on the northwest corner of the intersection where the Methodist Church is there, right close to where the bank and the post office and all that is now. But she had
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in Los Angeles with about ten reporters standing around; and this is how the whole Post story first became public. He stuck his finger in my chest and said, "You little son of a bitch. you for what you're doing." I am going to destroy But in any event
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • did have a post-mortem on that one and drew three lessons from it, which I'll quote: 1) a full last-minute whip count, even on minor bills; 2) don't allow debate to be separated from the vote; and 3) be more wary of bills left over from a previous
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Post Office Department, which is just down from the White House a block or two. G: Were these paratroops, or do you recall? C: They were some paratroops, I believe, and some other infantry troops. We had quite a contingent of people. G: But never
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that the President was very interested in was the Appalachian regional hospitals, the miner's hospitals--they had a long history. If you recall John L. Lewis had built in the post-war era a number of hospitals for miners in Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Nick over and said that I was not to be considered for the post of attorney general. B: Did he give you any special reason? C: Yes, the reason was that he felt that my father would have to resign and he didn't think that would be right. That he had