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  • . There is a possibility that Steve Mitchell was either Adlai Stevenson's law partner or they were closely associated, but I think there was a better rapport between Johnson and Rayburn and Mitchell than there was with Stevenson, because they were always skeptical what
  • to you about his presidential ambitions prior to the convention? H: Never did. F: Did you st~ out because of your United Nations' association, or simply because you didn't want to take a stand on that? H: The minute I became an international civil
  • anxious to do anything he wanted. Of course I've always felt that, and I think subsequent events again have proved right, the newspapers did this to him. You know, Nixon has been in now while we're talking nearly two months. According to the press he
  • , 1971 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES C. HAGERTY INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Austin, Texas F: Mr. Hagerty, I think we might just start this off by asking whether you knew or had at any time in your newspaper career run into Lyndon
  • that I can recall. M: Would a candidate have done the same thing in Ohio in 1966 when you ran for your current seat; that is, try to capitalize on an association with Johnson, or had things changed by then? T: Oh, I think things had changed a good
  • and doing all the work you have to do to carry through difficult legislation of the type that all this was. M: After he became Vice President, as someone that he knew fairly well from associations before that time, did you continue any particular
  • by the President's attitude. Mu: So even those that might have been conservative otherwise turned out under his influence to be maybe more sympathetic than it had appeared? :(,1e: Yes. I would say that personally this association lasted right from the minute he