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  • might be able to do it today. You've got Bob Eckhardt and Henry Gonzalez, who by the way, is also about to fallout with the liberals too, who can pretty well represent a state like Texas and be friendly with the liberals. Now, to get back to your
  • LBJ SAYS HE IS MEETING WITH ARTHUR GOLDBERG; MCDONALD EXPRESSES HIS SUPPORT; LBJ'S UPCOMING SPEECH TO JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS; MCDONALD SAYS HE HOPES CONGRESS WILL PASS CIVIL RIGHTS BILL AS TRIBUTE TO JFK; GOLDBERG, MCDONALD DISCUSS PAST SUPPORT
  • CLARK: We have a very substantial physical evidence. Memphis, Friday, and sur.cessful indictment, We rew~in very hopeful conclusion prosPcution that and, as I said followed and conviction. tests ir. we can have an early to our investigation
  • of their questions . F: Did he have any opportunity to show any grasp of Venezuelan and Latin American affairs? B: No, not at that time . it . There just wasn't enough time to get into I think he did just what we were hoping he would do--more or less broke
  • . It was intended to be a healing meeting--a meeting that sought to reassure through this group the Negroes and other minorities of the country that this should not be a cause for violence or a loss of hope . B: It did include representatives from beyond just
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 22 temporary thing, or did you assume you were signing on for a permanent job? M: No. I was hoping I was signing on for a more permanent job but realized the hazards. August 1st. Mr
  • . 10017, 697•5100 WNBC-TV and NBC Network DATE January 31. \968 - 11:30 CITY PM New York INTERVIEWWITH JIM GARRISON JOHNNYCARSON: Mz-. Garrison, accepting the invitation. I thlmk youAfor coming and And I hope I did not misstate a morn-antago
  • time he was our favorite son nominee for president. F: Was this just to hold the delegation, or did you think something might work out? T: Of course, a lot of us hoped it might work out. I doubt that he thought so. LBJ Presidential Library http
  • thirty books. I hope that they have been influential. Two years later, I was elevated to the post of Director of Economic Studies, which I still hold. At Brookings I have been not only director, but also a senior researcher and have published a couple
  • b r ea k fa st in b ed . And then d r e s s e d , with L iz com ing in e v e r y m o m en t or two for an other two or three,^^^ four p ictu re s of m e to sig n fo r the sta ff, w hich I w a s v e r y glad to do. I hope I n ev er forgetr
  • something of that comp-lex too--that it's out of phase with the remainder of New York and the nation et cetera, and I think that feeling maybe it ought to fonn its own state and go its own way is real. H: There's no question about it, and yet I'm hoping
  • that I was known to and well regarded by a number of people that he had talked with; and that he hoped that I would take it. I then asked him about some of his policy positions with respect to the career service, and his response was: 'well, I'm
  • ? J: Oh, yes. The acL-ninistration drafts all went in without them, and the committee put them in immediately. B: Was that just a foregone conclusion, just politically impossible? J: Oh, hope springs eternal, you know. But I guess those of us
  • of others for the help, and I hope I can count on you," to which you would give the normal response, first, of being very proud of � � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • prosecutions by the Justice Department. I am sending you the enclosed material because I believe you would be concerned about the resort to tyranny by a part of our government. I hope that if you agree that my recitation of the facts describes deplorable
  • --they went in on a mountain peak; then they were naturally excited about that moment, that type of conversation. So they go across and stand in Lafayette Park and began talking that they had such high hopes after the election, with Mr. Kennedy as President
  • with the Secret Service that additional personnel and new equipment couldn't correct. But I'm hopeful that we are strong today and progressive in the area of sophisticated equipment and that we would be able to withstand any proposals of that kind. Unless you
  • was that; "I'm going to have this show tomorrow night, and I hope you'll be watching, and I think I'll have something of interest for you." And that was about the upshot of it. F: He didn't £;,7e any real intir;1:1tion of \ihG.l: he'd hav,;? T: iole 11, he
  • March 31 speech, the process of drafting it, and speech-writer Harry McPherson; radios in the White House cars; calling people to forewarn them of the speech’s contents; White House activity following the speech; LBJ’ hopes that the speech could
  • largely restricted to buttonholing. D: Yes, meetings at night and over the weekends and times like that. F: There is a story that I like and hope it's true that you offered him your savings account at that time to help underwrite a campaign
  • , of course, listened to their comments and their comments were positive on what he said he hoped to enact. F: Did he find them fairly useful in legislative liaison? s: Yes, I think . . . F: I mean, could they touch a certai n group that maybe he wasn't
  • of Saigon, isn't it? G: Yes. F: I went down there once, and that for a while seemed to be a more hopeful place, if I'm not mistaken. Or at least we hoped it would get better, but it was just par for the course, and I don't remember the details. G: Okay
  • to Vietnam. And like any mother, father and daughter, there was sadness, efforts at expressing hopefulness and that kind of thing. But in those days Lynda had a very volatile personality, and like many of us one and two-child families, we spoke to our
  • felt like he was a breath of fresh air, and I had hoped that it would probably work out where he \'JOuld become the nominee. But I was bound by the unit rule in my delegation, and of course Vie cast our ballots for Lyndon Johnson on the first ballot
  • paid teenagers in our neighborhood: "Well, we only pay them fifty cents." Luci's response was, "I would hope that's what you'd say, because that's what my friends get. II But not knm·ting how many hours had been involved, we gave her five dollars
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 12 B: It was all handled at arms length, completely ethically ; they were honorable opponents, and we so considered them all the way and hope they considered us the same . We
  • , and they kind of like a dead fish's tail shook hands with me. do it. Springs. I tried to provoke conversation and couldn't Finally I said, "Well, I think I'm going on up to Sulphur I'm running for Congress, I hope you remember that, and I hope you'll vote
  • had much duplication and many people who were not being served. We talked about how could such a position be established. I think he really had hoped that the OEO director would be able to do it, but this was a little unrealistic. He didn't have
  • but opportunity for improvement is everywhere, such as saving of lives on the highway. We're experiencing fifty-odd thousand casualties each year on the highway. Many people, and I hope they're right, think this is something that can be abated and the trend
  • -- I -- 7 certain number of counties, and a county chairman, and of course all hope to have even a precinct organization where they have representatives from each of the precincts. So I took on the responsibility of attempting to organize my
  • in 1960 ; and that furthermore, and I did say this, that I didn't think that he, Mr . Rayburn, or Mr . Johnson had a prayer, that Kennedy was going to win ; and that I just hoped Mr . Rayburn would not be--embarrassed was not the word--humiliated by his
  • for the publication, said that I hoped he hadn't been sued by this other station; that we planned no suit, but that I did want to bring it LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • in Illinois, and I don't think that . • . At least, I, in the small part that I played, at no time had in mind to move it. I was always trying to get it to Illinois. that the 1972 convention comes to Chicago. And I hope I think it's a great convention
  • after the Detroit situation, the Attorney General wrote each of the fifty governors indicating the bases for the request for federal troops and the procedure that would be used in requesting them. that this has had some educational value. We hope
  • s s w a s in a h u n d re d tin y f r a g m e n ts , I I o p en ed it an d th e I hoped no one had h e a r d m e , b u t i t w a s p a r t of th e u n d e r c u r r e n t of th e d ay . U n d e rn e a th th e s u n s h in e a n d b r ig h t e x
  • to me to make And I always kept hoping he would leak something, but he never did. F: Stay in touch. W: I'm trying to recall what these circumstances were. was working for him then. Liz Carpenter And he began to tell me, in typically overwhelming
  • responsibility for law enforcement. There's so much you can do in the area of consolidation of local law enforcement, however, that I hope the states in their plans will aim in that direction. You have 40 thousand difference police agencies in this country. B
  • and a profound respect. I would like to include in my informal statement here one of my hopes that somewhere along in history that Walter Jenkins, the stigma that has been attached to him will somehow be removed, because I think that I'm a realist. I'm
  • the table and hope that it goes by. at the time. I was inclined to speak out myself. I thought it was wrong The whole thing, you know, was developed by these two fellows that ran this Rampart Magazine up here who were inclined to produce the sensational