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  • to the Democratic national convention. B: Did you find Kansas at that time receptive to the idea of a Kennedy candidacy for the Presidency? S: No, it was a rather bitter struggle even within the Democratic Party. There was partisans there of Mr. Johnson, Senator
  • Biographical information; Democratic and political activity background; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Orville Freeman; positions on JFK/LBJ staffs; 1961 Grain Act; struggle with Congress; JFK assassination; appointment as Under Secretary
  • -- were not unproductive from the point of view of the present Administration. At least one Democratic official who had been criticizing the Administration's Justice Department was silenced, for all practical purposes, well before the national Presidential
  • Committee, Political and Personal Papers
  • President Eisenhower and Johnson. K: Didn't they-- There was a great deal to that. We'll come to that in a minute. let's stay on Truman for a little bit. But Johnson felt that under Paul Butler particularly, the Democratic National Committee
  • Democratic Convention; JFK-LBJ rivalry; LBJ’s acceptance of the VP nomination; LBJ’s irritation over his Alfalfa Club Dinner speech and camel driver story; cross off; LBJ’s personal reaction to the JFK assassination; LBJ and the press; RFK; LBJ’s judgment
  • waiting, waiting, and therefore things begin to deaden off. That happened in the Democratic National Committee. It went to pieces because of Mr. Johnson; they kept waiting for him, and he was running things by himself, according to his critics. And I
  • of the Congress with whom he was associated, and, of course, we had both Republicans and Democrats. We got into some heated arguments. At that time, also, there was an organization here known as the Little Congress, made up of the personnel of the various
  • National Youth Administration (U.S.)
  • to them as - aa a matter they rationalized evil aren't men. These were essentiallythat w1true. Patently their security. way, because it. i_n that But the fact. remains untrue. of national these good men. con
  • you also use more computers? Y: Yes. This was mainly an outgrowth of the Warren Commission. have computers prior to the 1963 occurrence. We did not As a result of the Warren Commission and other committees, we now have a computerized protective
  • Secret Service car following him on the highway; paint throwing incident in Melbourne; death of Clarence Kretsch’s child at LBJ Ranch; nationally televised remarks to Secret Service personnel on the White House lawn
  • is on the President's mind that day or that week, as to \vhether to take it for the President. If there is doubt in his mind as to whether or not to go directly to the President, and if for example this happens to be a week of a grave national security crisis
  • in the Hous e when he was on the N: ~\ayy He never gave up. Watchdog Committee:? Well, he ?:.::: me to work on it. I was supposed to be a go-between between r.ci:::: and the investigators. for awhile. We worked down in the Navy It was understood
  • became staunch friends; Navy Watchdog Committee; LBJ never expressed a preference for a candidate before a primary.
  • Clark 9/22/67 C / ~ f' '\ J Ct, /f:,--92... -r- fl FILE LOCATION Personal Papers of Ramsey Clark Box 33C "JFK ASSASINATION - PRESERVING DOCUMENTS" RESTRICTION CODES {Al Closed by Executive Order 12356·governing access to national