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  • baskets of flowers almost parallel to the ground because the wind was always blowing during these barbecues. You just mention the word barbecue and the wind would start blowing out there. But Walter Jetton, the famous mobile caterer from Fort Worth
  • : the manned space center down there. fantastic. It was a good political trip. But the trip was For a reporter who liked politics, it was excellent. I was a pool reporter on the plane going into Fort Worth the night before, and so the next morning after
  • County--Russellville. It's in the Arkansas River Valley halfway between Little Rock and Fort Smith. We had a good-sized colored population~ I would suppose about twenty per cent of our people in the town were black. challenge~ ism there. And it had
  • what a station like this in their opinion would be worth. Did they contact you on this? K: No. There's certain information that is available to the general public in the files of the Federal Communi:cati,ons: Commtsston. Tt'·s not full and complete
  • to Governor Price Daniel, who was a young lawyer in Liberty, Texas during the 1930's and whose political star was beginning to rise. I supported him actively. F: You knew Price Daniel then back in your young Democratic days? H: Yes, I first met Price
  • an appointment through Liz, or whatever method that you can, with the Vice President." He wrote back and said that, then, Walter Jenkins would be available and would love to talk to me. So I took a three-day pass from Fort Stewart, Georgia; came to Washington
  • in 1962 and in 1963. B: I ought to break in here and mention this. Have you done an interview like this for the Kennedy library program? S: I have not. B: In that case, if you don't object, I think it's worth continuing on along this line
  • on the campaign from the standpoint of the opposition. it anywhere for some reason. I never did submit I ran across it in some files recently. It gives a pretty detailed picture of the campaign. B: That would be worth M: Yes. keeping~- In fact I think I
  • and the purchasing arrangements that would give the Vietnamese farmers the incentive to produce for all they were worth. This may have been an academic argument, I don't know. Some day I think there will be--I hope there will be--a very interesting story written
  • and put a little note on it pointing out quite clearly this special problem we had with the Saudis. And it was a nine page letter with only a page, or maybe even a couple of paragraphs, worth of substance. It was not a very important matter. in, saying
  • -- 3 G: One of the telegrams I think I sent you has Lodge asking McNamara for one hour of his time alone. Do you have any idea what transpired between the men? There have been reports that Lodge was trying to convince McNamara that the military
  • and purpose that he thought he had a charter to do. G: What sort of charter did he think he had? Now this is before the famous August 24 telegram from Washington. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • an office here in the Executive Office Building, and there was that stack of mail and telegrams for my handling just the same as when I left, but it was a new angle, of course, that I had never experienced before. It was pretty exciting and moving. F
  • , or a meeting in the White House? R: I believe, if I'm not mistaken, Cliff Alexander called about to people. B: It could have been a telegram, but I doubt it. Did the President call on you for more direct help in getting what was now to be the Civil Rights