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  • : Where did the impetus for that come from? c: Paul Butler, who was then chairman of the Democratic committee, I had known favorably for some time. Bi 11 Baggs, who at that time was the editor of the Miami Daily News, was a close friend of mine
  • ? M: They gave us a little tiny headquarters about half the size of this small office we're in now. I would say about 6x12 for our headquarters. the chairman of the Democratic party was the late Mr. [Paul] Butler. Kennedy very strongly. You see, He
  • this fall in here? R: Back early in the year '60, Paul Ziffren spoke to Walter Reuther about setting up a committee which would represent the liberal candidates, which would try to avoid trouble and differences that might make it possible for a conservative
  • for Vice President; 1960 campaign; 1940 election; motion for abrogation of 2/3s rule; contact with LBJ when he was Senate Majority Leader; Paul O’Dwyer and Allard Lowenstein; Dump Johnson movement; LBJ legislation proposed and enacted to help the people
  • are going to be written in the record that the party makes in the Congress when you're out of power. And so Paul Butler came forward at the urging of many of these people with the Democratic Advisory Council. B: Was it his idea? H: I have no idea. I