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- LBJ Presidential Library
http://www.lbjlibrary.org
ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
INTERVIEWEE:
Eugene M. Locke
INTERVIEWER:
David G. McComb
DATE:
May 16, 1969
M:
This is an interview with Mr
- Oral history transcript, Eugene M. Locke, interview 1 (I), 5/16/1969, by David G. McComb
- down in the course of it.
He attempted to serve as an intermediary between the Eisenhower
Administration and [Orval] Faubus.
I suspect that he was in touch
with Lyndon, a kind of a tactical matter during some of that time.
F:
I haven't interviewed
- ran into Dr. [George] Burkley, who was
President Kennedy's private physician, and he was getting into his
car.
He'd gotten cut off from the President, too.
you give me a ride?"
I
said, "Will
I had known him for years, since Eisenhower
days; he'd
- early because of the Strauss
Lewis Strauss had been on the Atomic Energy Commission and was
being nominated now by President Eisenhower in 1959 for the post of Secretary of Commerce.
And I was on the Commerce Committee also at this time,
and that's
- it out of a department,
we never would have had any means to get anything done with.
So that's
the reason why we put it there.
It was well known that the Congress was not going to let anybody
go beyond what Eisenhower had done in expenditures.
You'll