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  • --8 up an office, and that since I was familiar with some of the people who were in the real estate field here in Washington, . could I obtain satisfactory space. Well, I knew Morris Cafritz, who owned a large number of buildings. tenant of one
  • ? In other words, how did you set up your campaign in that year? M: Senator 'Morris Sheppard died, and I felt that W. Lee O'Daniel was going to run. I didn't know that Johnson was going to run. I felt like I was running against O'Daniel because he
  • . The Massachusetts delegation was at the Statler Hotel ; we had our headquarters there . All the delegates were stationed there, but we had our headquarters for the Massachusetts delegation . We had a special room for John McCormack because he was the Majority
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 I could even quote a very distinguished liberal on this--MOrris Abram, who is now president of Brandeis
  • of John McCormack or Sam Rayburn who were right on top of the situation. B: Do you recall any specific legislative fights in those days to illustrate how Rayburn and Johnson worked together? order. H: I know that's a tall Skip it if it's too vague
  • , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
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  • for the U .S . Senate to suc- ceed the great Senator Morris Sheppard who had died in office . I believe he made his announcement from the steps of the White House and received the endorsement of President Roosevelt . Shortly after his announcement
  • Johnson since then and felt really kind of sad about the fact that I had allowed my temper to get the best of me when somebody threatened to start a paper if I didn't support Johnson in his bobtail race for [Morris] Sheppard's office. While it probably