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  • them and everybody was waiting. Then one of the news- papermen saw Colonel Stephens and said to him they wanted me around LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • increased during the '60's. A new and junior Congressman is not very often called for consultaion to the White House, perhaps unfortunately. M: Did you feel that Mr. Johnson lost much of his party support with his cooperation with General Eisenhower
  • understood it was [John] Kennedy; he understood it perfectly. Johnson never really understood how the party worked. He didn't like the bosses; he thought they were crooked, the big New York bosses or the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • and here by the Federal Reserve ; the Treasury, of course ; Federal Reserve, by Al Hayes of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Mr . Combs handled the foreign exchange transactions for it . they met in Basel and other places in Europe . And It seemed
  • interest for the community, to find out what went wrong. Then that was the period when there was some violence in Clinton, Tennessee, and some in New Orleans. I visited those cities. any political connotations at all. It did not have In those days
  • realized that he was being surrounded by men who shared the grief of the family. Then, much to our surprise, as we were getting ready to leave for Steve Smith to return to New York, he asked if it would be possible to go by the area where the President--we
  • to Congress on April 10, 1937, through the elimination of ten opponents . His campaign was based on strong support for President Roosevelt's New Deal program . iii : Did you work i n that campaign? B: Yes,sir, in a general way . the Of course he
  • that the right kind of gaso- line was in the town. This was all very new and the whole thing had to be improvised. And then, of course, we certainly didn't want Mr. Johnson to arrive at the destination in his helicopter without anyone being there. We had
  • in that? M: Of cours e, I thoug ht since Sena tor Johns on was the Majo rity Lead er of the Sena te and there had been a lot in the news paper s abou t the poss ibili ty of his cand idacy , that he poss ibly migh t be a cand idate . I belie ve he told me