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INTERVIEWEE:
JOHN T. JONES, JR.
INTERVIEWER:
DAVID McCOMB
PLACE:
Mr. Jones' office, Gulf Building, Houston, Texas
Tape 1 of 1
M:
First of all, lid like to know a little bit about your background.
Where were you born and when and where did you get your
- Biographical information; BOB job; liquidation of war industries; use of BOB by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; Major General Wilton Persons; Sherman Adams; Jack Martin; Bryce Harlow; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; Hatch Act; problem of civil
- Oral history transcript, Roger W. Jones, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by David G. McComb
- in the Eisenhower Administration.
M:
Had they made a strong effort in the Eisenhower Administration?
B:
Yes, they had.
They had made a strong effort with the Administration;
they had never been up on the Hill.
I think they would have gotten--I've
always felt
- Eisenhower, I openly supported him and did
what I could for him.
But there wasn't any chance for anyone to defeat
General Eisenhower, then.
He was a world war hero and his name--
JBF:
And altogether too pleasant a person, really.
F:
That's right.
I'll
- Biographical information; 1928 convention; repeal of the 18th Amendment; Henry Wallace; Harry S. Truman; BEHIND THE BALLOTS and THE JIM FARLEY STORY; first meeting with LBJ; 1941 Johnson vs. O’Daniel campaign; Eisenhower; Kennedy-Kefauver fight
