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  • negotiation. He had beaten David McDonald. The perception of McDonald's defeat was that he didn't get large enough wage increases and that he made back-room deals and sort of sold out the workers, the rank and file. So we were all concerned about whether I. W
  • that. G: Yes. You did. There's one in here. Governor [David] Lawrence was proposing an executive order and you presented the pros and cons of that. C: Do we incidentally have a draft? In any case, we talked about going--fair housing being essentially
  • over the lot on the appointment. I'm sure he talked to scores of people about who should be appointed. He talked to me about David Rockefeller, Laurance Rockefeller, Ben Heineman, I don't know, lots of others, even at that point in time I think Walter
  • like Little Rock and Eisenhower. He was very conscious of what he would perceive to be the mistakes that other presidents had made; sometimes mistakes you can only see from hindsight. In Little Rock, Eisenhower sent in troops to enforce a federal court
  • , "the President's man." That's the title of a book, or almost [The President's Men: White House Assistants of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson by Patrick Anderson]. How do those books get written
  • will be curved and what have you. Lastly, you had this great tradition stemming back to the Eisenhower years--and LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • to do a big study of time of movement and what have you. F: Was the Eisenhower experience at Little Rock of any value at all to you in this? C: Not much. (Interruption) F: We were at Oxford. C: Yes. Oxford, I would have to say generally