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- 1968 when you were defeated for
reelection.
I'd like to begin the interview and just ask you what made you decide
to enter public life and politics back in 19391
M:
I had been a political writer on the old Oklahoma News, had covered a number
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the new chairman of the House
- or less after the bill
had passed the House and Senate.
the bill signing ceremony.
I committed myself to come before
It was shortly after the bill was passed.
I was called one morning about 11:00 o'clock by Sarge to come over
and have lunch with him
- evening I was there. The sessions would go on from about
ten in the morning until one, and then from three until six. The delegations' day,
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the things that we were looking forward to under Kennedy seemed to have
just sort of--my reaction was that they were killed with him in Dallas.
B:
Did this opinion change?
M:
Absolutely.
B:
Do you recall when and why?
M:
In retrospect I think
- , but that they wouldn't get anything out of us that they'd like any
better, and they'd better just go with State and with Navy.
The reason we did this was because we wanted to keep our powder dry in the
event of a new kind of question in a different context where we might