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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • from reading the newspapers that here was a big, gangly, wheeler-dealer politician, the type of which I knew so well in Oklahoma, which is the old courthouse politician. So I had a very negative impression of him as someone who was hard and cold
Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 2 (II), 6/28/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • that the reputation he had of being a Texas wheeler-dealer is something he did not want history to confirm that that reputation ever existed while he was president. And I would imagine that he was personally hurt by things like Bobby Baker and Walter Jenkins. He just