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INTERVIEWER: THOMAS HARRISON BAKER
June 18, 1969
B:
This is the interview with Whitney M. Young, Jr. of the Urban League. Mr. Young, do
you recall when you first met or knew anything about Lyndon Johnson?
Y:
I first met Mr. Johnson when he was in the Senate
- Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details
- See all online interviews with Whitney M. Young, Jr.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Young, Whitney Moore, Jr., 1921-1971
- Oral history transcript, Whitney M. Young, Jr., interview 1 (I), 6/18/1969, by T.H. Baker
- Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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B:
Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956?
S:
I didn't.
I was not that close to him.
I was not in Chicago in 1956
\vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I
really \vas not that close
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- See all online interviews with Carl Sanders
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
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questions involved in there that are not answered, at least on the
public record.
Did you see anything then of Mr. Johnson during the years that
he was Vice President?
R:
Yes, I saw him several times, I think a couple of times when delegations
- Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details
- See all online interviews with Bayard Rustin
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- the JFK assassination; Civil Rights Bill of 1964; campaigning for LBJ in 1964; organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; introducing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the concept of non-violence; a King-Powell episode regarding Rustin