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  • did not do the Scan[dinavian], and he sent Dwight Porter, who was the assistant secretary for administration. But Porter was essentially a substantive officer rather than a manager/administrator, and he and Johnson did not get along very well
  • of articles that he apparently had scanned or had been brought to his attention and he was raising questions one right after the other. The scope of his scanning, if you will, was most impressive to someone who hadn't seen him in action. I think the other
  • changed. So far as I know, Sam Houston's main job at that point was to scan through all these papers and cut out clippings. I don't know that they had or whether they subscribed, I'm sure they did, to clippings services also; if they had such services
  • send in stuff to [LBJ]. Oh, we very carefully cut it out--he was very particular--anything that I thought that was of interest to him or that he, you know--I was his clipping service. So Billy Lee was very careful to be sure to scan the papers and let
  • of their successors. That is, these are the weekly reports on activities, what was being accomplished and all of this. And I scanned through the reports over a number of years, not only in my district, the district I've been in, but some of the others. And it seemed
  • this external intrusion, et cetera, but still they're part of NATO nominally. Finland is neutral. Sweden is neutral. So there was--it was a--doing all of the Scans and Finland, which is technically not Scandinavian but usually grouped with the Nordics
  • yourself. M: And I knew many, many people myself. Also Dungan had built up a significant portion of this list, and this was part of the legacy that he passed along to me. So it was a very valuable resource. Once we had scanned those three sources
  • campaign out of the public treasury. The Scan- dinavian countries, in many instances, pay a campaign expense under a strictly supervised control. But Eisenhower, according to Walter Thayer, said, well, he thought something ought to be done, but his main
  • had. He had noticed as he was scanning down that LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org
  • go through a stack of, I would say, a hundred to two hundred letters in an hour or so. He would scan a letter and say "Regret it" or "Tell them I'll look into it" or whatever, and we took little shorthand notes on the letter itself and composed
  • marked characteristic of his. M: As you notice in scanning down my list here, you've anticipated a good number of the things that I wanted to be certain to get on this record.Did you know Mr. Johnson at all in your earlier diplomatic career, when he