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  • Date > 1968-10-10 (remove)

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  • great knowledge of political affairs and things generally in the country. And then I remember a situation developed after he and Lady Bird had gone on back. I watched her taking a few notes and listening most intently while he was talking freely
  • Early relationship with LBJ; 1960 campaign; appointment as Secretary of Commerce; JFK leadership; Department of Commerce problems; JFK’s staff; LBJ and civil rights; LBJ and the Vice Presidency; JFK-LBJ friction; Business Advisory Council; relation
  • successful in the affairs of Washington and were successful in our district. Judge Mansfield was very old, and his friends appreciated the fact that I had not attempted to be elected in the new district. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Services--the Defense Department---wouldn't tell him a damned thing going on in the war. M: And you had been a friend of his in the Senate? A: Yes. And so I finally got somebody to go down there. They got General Carter Clark over there and finally
  • was able to put in a good word for her at the time of the organization of the WACs, of which she became the director and she made a distinguished record as such. (I was then a member of the Military Affairs Committee in Congress). Oveta is a very fine