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  • airline received a trans-Pacific , air route and that President Nixon rescinded it.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