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- LEACACOS, CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER October 14, 1967 Leacacos: I am trying to get the gold dust of authenticity in writing my book. But before that, I wonder what is going to be the follow through on your Williamsburg speech. The President: I have talked
- in the Congress and he does not know if it will pass. Tom Vail of the Cleveland Plain Dealer asked if the President plans to run in 1968. The President said 11 we will cross that bridge when we get to it and we 1 re not to it yet. 11 Otto Fuerenbringer of Time
Oral history transcript, Claude J. Desautels, interview 1 (I), 4/18/1980, by Michael L. Gillette
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- said, liMy God, this is my administration. is Kennedy. I called Steve Young, And by God I'm delighted. This is my party. This Tell the President on my behalf I'm personally going to call the editor of the Cleveland Plain LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Charles E. Bohlen, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- , Z K R used to be number 2 in the 1$72 delegation to Harlan Cleveland in Paris, and who is a first-class officer. And he has a rather large group of people under him Z K R really work in direct liaison ZLWth the Pentagon at all levels, and he is so
- character when a Communist military offensive drove neutralist forces from the area of the Plain of Jars they had held in 1962. Our response to these eveilts, the provision of additional T-28's to the Governmait of Laos and the carrying out of reconnaissance
- was heavy-handed; he was high-handed, he was a dealer. You could go to him in private and say, "I'd like to get this done. Now how am I going to do it?" And he'd say, "Well, you do this for me and I'll do that for you." He was a great back scratcher. I don't
Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh FISHER -- I -- 14 F: I think so. Me: He had a reputation, or gained a reputation, during his majority leadership days, as a wheeler-dealer. Do you recall any events or examples of legislation that really required his very
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical
- . That's the kind of operation now. You know he had a reputation of being a wheeler-dealer, and I wouldn't say it came from intimate experience that would cause me to say that. I was pretty young and a freshman in '58 and new in the Congress, you know
- felt down in the bottom of his heart that they didn't vote for him, they voted against Goldwater. And Lyndon was one of these guys who, being a wheeler-dealer in a sense that he was a compromiser, always had an idea that somehow the Kennedys would get
- days everybody didn't have a radio set and the dealers would put one out on the street for World Series games and big speeches--Roosevelt was making a big speech, and he was giving the malefactors of great wealth hell in his way. o~m superior And two
- Dealers make me sick, because where would you be if you could not get people like me elected to Congress?" That was a ve ry characte ristic thing for him to say. He was always cons cious of the Texas electorate breathing down his neck. I have a poor
Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 2 (II), 4/10/1969, by David G. McComb
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Oral history transcript, Charles K. Boatner, interview 3 (III), 6/1/1976, by Michael L. Gillette
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- --that little town, poor boy beginning . He had become, in my mind, what I'd always thought of as a wheeler-dealer in Texas, whereas Johnson never did show that . Now their speed of mind, of both of them, is astounding . Even before the question had formed
- were there with some other friends of the President. I remember specifically Jay Smith was there--he used to be an Austin automobile dealer--and old Bob Present, who is the chairman of the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL