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- Histories [NAID 24617781]
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Bi :
Yes .
Well, in 1957 and 1958 I was finance director of the
Democratic
National Committee .
Paul Butler was the chairman, Matt McCloskey
- of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson
- President
Eisenhower and Johnson.
K:
Didn't they--
There was a great deal to that.
We'll come to that in a minute.
let's stay on Truman for a little bit.
But
Johnson felt that under Paul Butler
particularly, the Democratic National Committee
- by what he saw in Paul Kattenburg, who was the
country director for Vietnamese affairs, who's presently a professor at
the University of South Carolina, after early retirement from the
department.
G:
What was he disturbed about?
F:
It was sort of ad
- Going to work for Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge; Paul Kattenburg; Ambassador Frederick Nolting; Flott’s job duties; conditions at the American Embassy in Vietnam upon Lodge’s arrival; interaction with the press; traveling from Washington D.C
- it.
and so I did.
He called Jack Butler,
Jack wanted me to call him
He talked for, I guess, 30 or 40 minutes.
F:
Actually you didn't cover him though.
K:
No, he was in Washington.
F:
Okay, you get him elected Senator.
Now then, we know the general
- of Senate Democrats; John Sparkman; Paul Douglas; Paul Butler; Matt McCloskey; Americans for Democratic; Charlie Murphy; Albert and Mark Lasker Foundation; 750 Club; Ed Foley; Liz Carpenter; Ralph Hewitt; Bob Berry; Dave Lloyd; Jack Kennedy; Ted Sorenson