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- liaison with the Congress.
F:
As far as you know, did the President ever confer with Lyndon Johnson
on whether he should run in 1956?
H: As far as I know, no, and I don't think he would have.
I don't think
he would have.
F:
This is a Dwight Eisenhower
- Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately government
- effective work done now
is Mansfield is so far in the other direction from Johnson. Mansfield is more of a
gentlemanly man than Johnson ever thought of being, but Johnson got things done.
F:
Without getting into the pros and cons of the Eisenhower
- temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
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in the history of the United States--no parallel in the history of any other
President.
When you figure the amount of 1egislation--just take education,
federal aid to education!
practically nil.
Under the Eisenhower Administration, it was
I think it went up
