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  • transportation . at that time,-and for that matter, Because I'm still representing some of the major interests in air transportation, mainly American Airlines . 14 : Yes, and you were working with air transportation in the early 1930's? B: Yes . In fact, I
  • Relationship with LBJ in Congressman Kleberg's office in 1933; airline regulations; LBJ's election to Congress in 1937; Senate campaign in 1941 and 1948; 1956 Democratic Convention; 1960 campaign with JFK; influence of Lady Bird Johnson on LBJ's
  • there, and I wasn't quite sure, and so I said, "Seventy-seven." After we got through and finally after the nomination, we showed up, sure enough, with seventy-six. And all the press says, "My gosh, how in the world did you figure it that closely?" I never
  • him. But he made every use of the telephone tv/enty-four hours a day, no matter where he was in the world. One of the problems of the President, LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • the equivalent of the banker's family, the first family of Johnson City . They were the ones who got all the way to Austin and saw the world, and consequently they were the style setters, and the girls were-­ F: And Mother Johnson had a sense of their style
  • targets for years from Franklin Delano Roosevelt on through to Johnson's time--substantial numbers of these were passed. Slum clearance, housing, the poverty programs, the interstate highway systems, airline and airport legislation, and the development
  • came straightaway as fast as I could. I think they knew that I was on a tight schedule, and I think the arrangements were made that they'd wait and get me. G: I see. How did you fly down from Nashville? M: I came down on American Airlines from