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  • very brief? F: Correct. Yes. Mc: Sir, have you ever participated in any other oral history project of this type? F: No, I have not. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
  • . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
  • her before she fell off the cliff near her home. But what that document became was essentially an effort at an analytical document and as an indication of new directions to persuade the President of the character of the urban crisis. We were trying
  • coming. I think they could We talked of it a lot before we ever left Congress, that this was on its way. I don't think people back home or delegates to the convention felt this, or they might have picked somebody else to be our standard bearer
  • , [and] had her, and he and Mrs. Johnson arrange that wedding. story white house in Austin. that wedding. He said that Mrs. Johnson would handle the It was in the Johnson home, that old twoAnd they handled every arrangement for They got the preacher
  • to Congressman George M. Rhodes of Reading, Pennsylvania, which is my home state. fourth term. He was a very able member who was then beginning his He was first elected to Congress in 1948, the Truman year. George was a former labor official, which fit in very
  • was a young congressman, we'd meet in either his home or my home or Wirtz' home and talk about the topic of that particular day or week . Johnson would always say, "We've got a joint venture here that we don't ever want to be broken, because Wirtz is going
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh PARTEN -- 11-- 15 F: He really wasn't running against Jake Pickle. He was running against the President. P: That's right. "Bring Lyndon Home"--that was his platform. was all over the Vi etnam War. He had an admiration