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  • like this. I had formed a friendship with him several years earlier when I was the editor of the Daily Texan, and at the end of my editorship he had called me down to KTBC and had offered me a job in the news room there. The year I was editor
  • , in the campaign in 1948 when Coke Stevenson, at that time former-Governor Coke Stevenson, announced for the Senate race on New Year's day, 1948, it is my recollection that he did not say anything at all about Taft-Hartley. And at that time when he announced, W
  • TIME FROM DAILY DIARY; LBJ IS APPARENTLY MEETING WITH WALTER JENKINS AT TIME OF CALL; LBJ SPEAKS WITH JENKINS BEFORE CALL AND JENKINS ALSO SPEAKS BRIEFLY WITH BUSBY
  • LBJ ASKS FOR CLARIFICATION OF FIGURES ON CREATION OF NEW JOBS AND ON INCREASE IN AVERAGE WEEKLY INCOME WHICH ARE USED IN DRAFT SPEECH TO CONVENTION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSN OF MACHINISTS
  • was pleased, proud, a little haughty that he might go down there and represent this new administration at this bridge dedication. Well, I didn't say so out loud, of course, but I said, "Like heck you will. That's a volatile situation and you're going to fall
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  • may exist for a whole different reason. There was an oversight committee established on the poverty program on which I served too, chaired by Morrie [Maurice] Leibman in Chicago. [It] had just a little bit of heft on it. While reading the Atlantic I
  • so new and young at the thing, you know, obviously Johnson had a good bit to do in Texas without coming up here. As it turned out, it was one of life's first and great lessons about politics. The fact that things shifted to Washington really made
  • of itself was a little bit unique. No problem at all getting the small-city daily publishers together, but the big ones didn't come together that often or that easily. So Ted Dealey was there, and of course Ted Dealey congenitally disliked Lyndon Johnson
  • to Kefauver in New Hampshire. I also agree with this course, generally. I have this doubt. In 1958, you had to go to the UN, et al, to keep the world from regarding Eisenhower as a lame-duck, impotent President. I think it possible that making yourself
  • Taipei and S&tgon. Tbe proposed trip bas now been exp61lded to include eubstantive stops at New Delhi and JCarach1, with Athena aa a Nat atop on the return trip. It baa been decided that the Bureau of Far Eastern Affair• should continue to coordinate tbe
  • the editors of the conservative publications that were not sympathetic to Johnson anyway were not present at this thing--the Dallas [Morning] News was not there; maybe one editor was, but not the top people. They were dissatisfied by and large. They did
  • was older by a good bit than I was. But the Governor--we met in 1946 and he talked to me a lot about the Rainey campaign, and I was very flattered. So in 1947 I was at that point working at the State Capitol in the International News Service Bureau