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  • by the press at least as one of his supporters in the State of Ohio. I think it was intimated at least that you might have even changed from Kennedy to Johnson. Were there any details of that episode? H: Actually, I was a committed Kennedy delegate. I
  • liability; press assassinated LBJ politically; JFK legislation; investigation of Adam Clayton Powell; Hays’ feud with Romney; briefing of Foreign Affairs Committee by Secretary of State; LBJ’s hostility toward Senate Foreign Relations Committee; advice
  • with people that Lyndon Johnson would be a fine president. F: Did he talk with you about it? H: Yes, he did. So he had that idea. Again, under the way that President Eisenhower worked wherever he went there was press, so wherever there was press
  • leaders of free world after WWII; Little Rock and civil rights; Ike against forced bussing; states rights; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Ike and LBJ had heart attacks in 1955; Dulles and foreign affairs; 1956 Hungarian uprising; Israel and Suez Crisis; Sputnik
  • , whereas Eisenhower's line was free trade -- and he held the line rather successfully. H: Yes. F: And Johnson has always been a free trade advocate. I expect he's the most"free trade" of the Presidents we've had. in this century. Did you ever work
  • First awareness of LBJ; administrator of Marshall Plan; UN Development Program; Joe McCarthy attack; free trade; representative to UN assembly; Bunche mission; civil liberties; campaign expenditures; foreign aid; International Peace Corps; advisory
  • pretty much today. But even when he was Vice President, of course, we weren't pressing him on legislative matters. We did have a number of contacts with him. Mu: Did Mr. Kennedy use him for anything that involved organized labor--? Me: Not directly
  • by going to Jack Valenti and work something out. But it was much harder because he'd be late, and you'd wait there an hour or so when he was supposedly free and he wouldn't be. be immediate. You knew it wouldn't He didn't have a system like President
  • in the press about s orne action that we are thinking of taking with reference to some country, making a loan, something of this sort, or we are going to make a loan or we aren't going to make a loan- -this kind of thing. Often enough, as far as we could
  • if nobody else was there but me. B: Was that an innovation of yours? H: Oh, absolutely. People never dreamed of starting anything like that and never dreamed of having a secretary that was there at 8:30. B: I believe that you had regular press
  • supersensitive about press releases about how the Democratic leadership should be fighting Eisenhower, and what I called the Joe Rauh-ADA-superliberal wing of the Democratic Party had entirely too much control of the personnel at the Democratic National Committee