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- airline received a trans-Pacific ,
air route and that President Nixon rescinded it.
lid like to get at is:
Now then, the point
does the President, can the President, exert
any pressure for that sort of grounding, or is this a matter of cold
economics
- ; the transition; the 1964 campaign; Walter Jenkins and the effect of his leaving the staff; LBJ’s staff and JFK’s staff relations; Bill Moyers; staff loyalty to LBJ and how it affected Sinclair’s family life; Lloyd Hand; relationship between airlines and politics
- would put heat
on labor leaders to help end an airline strike--he would go outside the
airlines industry to involve labor leaders, involve industrial leaders .
He
certainly knew how to do that .
Ba :
The reason I
asked was, fairly recently of course
- all he had with him, was a carpetbag .
He
apparently went up there in the early 1900's and joined the Army
from
there .
F:
He made a place for himself .
B:
Oh, sure he did .
He was an officer in World War I .
Now to be black and
be an officer
- --at that point it was considered
absolutely annihilation in the political world in the South to testify
on behalf of civil rights--but that if it would pass the bill
or
help in passing it, I would do whatever the President requested.
Subsequently, the President
-
it was part the romance, but also the great interest I had in foreign
affairs.
F:
As an undergraduate, had you been interested in political science?
D;
Marginally.
I was a Spanish and Portuguese major.
South America and set the world on fire.
I wanted
- 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
- , and the airline got my bags
in to me about five o'clock that night; and I spent one night in a
tourist home there near the Capitol.
The next day it dawned on Mrs. Johnson or the Senator one that I
was in a strange town, Christmas coming up, and they took me out
- account which
had not run up too big.
I think $28 is what it cost the Johnson-
Humphrey camp to send me, plus the airline tickets, which they were
billed directly for, I presume.
I came back and I started working
in public correspondence, editing