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  • the Kennedy election that I went on the Ways and Means Committee. M: Then you were a member of that committee until you retired. T: '66, that's right. M: And then after this--you are now, I suppose, a consultant? T: Well, at the moment, I'm director
  • was in Kentucky, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and to a lesser degree in North Carolina. B: In '60 there were no permanent Kennedy-Johnson campaign coordinators in those LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • is a known candidate, and, as a matter of fact, a leading candidate at that time. it was Jack Kennedy. By the time we got in, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • been committed by their state primaries to Kennedy alreadYi but I tried to get them lined up for Senator Johnson on the second ballot, if there should be one. Of course, one trouble with delegates is that they are invariably polite, and they are sort
  • in the lack of appropriations for their pet projects or the failure to support pet bills. So it's not unusual. But the papers and the columnists, particularly--those who have been So devoted to the Kennedy line--made it a point continually to hammer away
  • an everwidening cone into Oklahoma and the Southwest. abiding fundamentalism. covert issue then. There's a deep and John Kennedy's religion was something of a I mean it was a burning brush fire among [what] I guess you would call the religious groups
  • the vice presidential B: No, I wasn't . M: You thought he might do that? B: Yes, I thought he might do it . position? I didn't think that Kennedy would offer it to him, but I thought he might take it if it was offered . M: Why do you think he
  • took a vice presidential position in 1960? H: Well, r really wasn't surprised because I felt that Jack Kennedy was a pretty smart politician, and he wanted LBJ over the willing candidates for a very particular reason. That was because LBJ
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (Tape #l) December 9, 1971 Ba : This is an interview with Ambassador David Bruce, it's December 9, 1971 and I'm Harri Baker . And Mr . Bruce, of course was Ambassador to Great Britain during the Kennedy
  • Johnson got the Manned Spacecraft Center in a deal with Kennedy-a political deal--in reward for Lyndon Johnson running as Vice President . B: Is there any truth in that? I don't think there is one iota of truth in it . Lyndon Johnson on the overall
  • of Hayden and Cannon came along and they couldn't agree on the appropriations bill, or where they were going to meet to discuss it--and finally, he never did say anything, but finally the President asked him--Kennedy asked him to see if he could get