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  • Lufkin that were on the football team: and Elvin Read. Ardis Hopper, Clark Gordon The first week of training I was there in order to get acquainted with the coaches, and at a Mrs. Gates' house, where the training table was being maintained, I met
  • States. M: Much earlier than you might have gotten it otherwise. H: I wouldn't have had it for two or three terms--I couldn't have without this. So he cooperated with me. I'm sure he's long since forgotten it. M: I don't know. He remembers things
  • it, he was. back. Of course twenty-two years is a long time As I recall, he was at that time I guess more of a candidate in the term that he was looking for help--he wanted to cooperate--than he got to be later on. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • to ask for his advice, seeing that he had seniority? F: I probably did a few times, but if so, it was very rarely, and if at all, I assume it related to REA matters. It happened that the old Pedernales Electric Cooperative--which was close to his
  • ] Beulah, and he did offer all facilities of the government, and the federal government was very cooperative with the people in charge of disaster work. I wasn't involved in it particularly, but they're all very grateful for the assistance that was given
  • : Oh, very frequently--in the news stories principally. I'd say he figured certainly weekly and sometimes almost daily in the news stories. M: Did Mr. Johnson cooperate, either with Mr. Jamison or yourself so that he did get that much publicity? T
  • as a Congressman; McCarthy hearings; LBJ’s cooperation with Eisenhower; rating LBJ as a Senator and Majority Leader; Timmons’ Conventions Record; Democratic and Republican conventions; LBJ and 1960 campaign; Barry Goldwater; “Trial Balloons;” LBJ’s high standing
  • information, they would get it for us. We had full cooperation actually from all the Texas delegation in the House and in the Senate. F: As far as you remember, he didn't make any public statement himself-he just assisted. P: No, sir, not that I recall
  • : Well, frankly, many things go on that you don't know affecting your own district. Most of the time I knew, because I'd had a hand in it, but I'm trying to give an example of his thoughtfulness and cooperation. would call, and I'd say, "John, I didn't
  • -- 9 Pedernales River Authority, the Blanco--which had a larger acreage, a larger spread for a rural electrification project, probably fewer farms per mile than any other--that is, the largest electric cooperative in the country. We did this for Johnson