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- ," and so forth. I didn't realize until afterwards that he probably had an ulterior motive in asking me to go up, because on the way back he began to put the pressure on me to buy a block of land that Senator Wirtz had owned over on Red River Street
- -floor house. I remem- ber it was over west of the school, but it was several blocks over. I remember he paid thirty dollars for the month's rent, and they didn't move down there. So he wanted to get some use out of the house, so I lived at Lockhart
- out at the Adolphus Hotel. And Lyndon was just beside himself. He said, IlFred, I wish to hell you would find out where you're going before you start out!" Anyway, we circled a couple of blocks and we finally got to the entra Adolphus Hotel. lobby
- Graham -- I -- 9 to receive the support of those machine counties as he had in the past, he'd have won by a pretty good, big majority. G: They always voted in blocks out there. CG: Yes, and let me say this. I think that from what little I know about
- an effort by the Stevenson people to bring about a change of the results or a blocking of the certification of Johnson. B: r understand that you were asked to advise with the then-Senator Johnson concerning at least one of his subsequent campaigns
- find a field across town or a few blocks away that was adequate, so they'd come back, and Joe Phipps would apologize, over the loud speaker, and he'd say, "Well, our pilot tells us that it wouldn't be very wise to land there. We'd blow the dust all over
- . I think Estes Kefauver was being nominated, and he was opposed by Texans, who supported John F. Kennedy. Is it true that Walter Reuther blocked that Kennedy move? N: I don't think so. I think it was more or less of an inspiration on Kennedy. I
- or the Ugly Duckling, not the Greasy Spoon davin a half a block, the Ugly Duckling. down to the office. And Lyndon went, because he came I think before he was in Congress, he also went down, because Maury used to and Malcolm Bardwell went, as his executive
- the job. Finally Russell gave Lyndon the job, but it was considered to be a most dangerous thing for a fellow in the political currents of Texas to take at the time. You were risking your neck on the block. Hill prophesized to him that Johnson would lose
- he already knew through Lyndon, some he didn't. Part of the time Wirtz was here, he rented a house over in Alexandria just about two blocks from where I lived; and he and Kitty Mae stayed there and we saw a great deal of them. But from beginning
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- , and Jimmy Stewart, the movie actor, and the Kempners in Galveston, they didn't know any better, and they filed for it and moved it to Houston. Now this is one of the things we tried to block, and we did hold them out for about three years. I think that's
- it, and as county attorney I can remember being called out to several polling places to settle problems that would come up. I don't know whether it happened at Precinct 13, which was the old Nayer School down off of South Cameron, about three or four blocks from