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Oral history transcript, Eugene McCarthy, interview 1 (I), 12/12/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was inclined to overcomplicate things oftentimes when he could have played it pretty just straight and let it happen, sort of the way [Mike] Mansfield did. Lyndon was inclined to--I think sometimes he would make a complicated issue [simple]. He'd sort
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