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happened I remember President Johnson said to me when I told him
that I wanted to do it-
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Did you talk to him. personally?
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Yes.
I said, "I hope you feel all right about my going.
you say? How do you feel about it?"
He smiled
- so felt, I b.e 1 i eve, that I was trying to vote my convictions.
I'm neither far right nor left and because of that, sometime my
vote has been looked at as being objective. At least I hope so.
F:
Do you think you got more mail because of the fact
- was an office that sometimes made the
man.
Somehow maybe it's because either my faith in our form of
government or maybe my hopes for it--that I believe this is true.
Maybe I just hate to think that someone who shouldn't be President
could become President.
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But,
I talked to Sam Rayburn in
his hotel suite at the Biltmore in Los Angeles a couple of days
before the actual nomination.
Though he said nothing overt, it was ·
quite clear that he had little hope that the President would win.
He was amiable
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