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  • to the job. F: Tell me a little bit about those years on the NYA; I'm not revealing any confidence when I say that I've talked to some of the current Negro leaders who told me that back in the middle 1930's, they didn't know Lyndon Johnson from Adam
  • to acknowledge that. I told you that he wanted so much to sign the Medicare Bill in Independence, went out there, and how pleased Truman---boy, he paid a lot of attention to Truman. I don't know if anyone ever asked Truman LBJ Presidential Library http
  • on the staff. There was no justification for having an agricultural economist as a member of the council, even though that had been the tradition under Eisenhower and Truman, I guess. F: Did the President ever voice the opinion that in one sense agriculture
  • --5 T: He made s,uggestions as to people that I might see while I was traveling over the district. Judge Herman Jones was then my law partner, and he gave. him several suggestions about the helpful. campaign~ and they were very I am sure
  • and Matsu, and when we had just finished, of course, having stopped the Chinesesupported invasion of South Korea. Humphrey, by the way, supported that; he supported the commitment by Truman in 1950 of troops and forces to the defense of South Korea
  • convention? W: In 1952? P: When they nominated Strom Thurmond, with Truman versus [Thomas] Dewey in 1948. W: In 1948? P: Yes. W: Well, of course, I've always felt that the party should support the nominee, whoever that nominee may be. That those