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  • , Bill Manchester wrote in his book--he got carried away and wrote that it was a Bible that Kennedy often read at night while he was making trips. He would read this Bible at night before he would turn out his lights, Manchester said. I later tracked
  • to pass out cards for a young candidate at a political rally there in Smithville; that candidate was Lyndon Johnson. Cliff Carter met Lyndon Johnson that night. He became so deeply impressed with the man that he devoted much of the remainder of his life
  • and many senior members. My recollections about Mr. Johnson in particular are rather hazy at this time. I do recall that he was a rather prominent member of the delegation and I, therefore, was somewhat attracted to him out of curiosity, having read a lot
  • /oh 10 M: Did you have anything to do with that? W: No. In effect the Secretary as Administrator had read out the Kennedy task force--Joe McMurray. who had worked with the Secretary and who had been the chairman of the Kennedy Task Force
  • in 1949, I went to work for the legislative department of the UAW--United Auto Workers union--here in Washington. My job was mostly research; I read the [Congressional] Record every day and I came to the Hill to get bills and attend hearings. I also
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 14 Q: Through 1965, yes. G: I have read comments to the effect that in 1964 the administration ramrodded the bill through the committee. statements. People have made these I think some committee members made
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh PARTEN -- II -- 13 Yarborough's house and tells how great Ralph Yarborough is and all the opposition melted away. P: I know nothing of that except what I've read in the papers
  • Christmas? He had only been in office about a month . He saw it coming, and he was going to have to make up his mind because he had read all the commitments and knew all the =7-vi tments . He felt like he was committed to it . G: Do you think that he