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Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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opponents in an election for president.
F:
Yes.
H:
But not in the daily routine--well, not routine
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May 12, 1969
This is an interview with Chet Huntley in his office in New York on May
12, 1969.
The interviewer is Joe B. Frantz.
First of all Mr. Huntley, you have one thing in common with Lyndon
B. Johnson, that is you
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
- U.S. Attorney.
Through his recommendation I was
After that I was recommended for
reappointment in the Republican administration by the judges of the
United States District Court in Chicago.
F:
What prompted your move to New York?
W:
I was asked
- , 1971
INTERVIEWEE:
NEWTON mNOW
INTERVIEWER:
JOE B. FRANTZ
PLACE:
Mr. Minow's office, Chicago, Illinois
Tape 1 of 1
F:
Nr.
f~inow,
just to set the stage, let's identify you briefly--how
you came to work into this world of national politics?
M
- happened to
come to Washington.
I'd been associated with a nonprofit manage-
ment consulting firm in Chicago for about a year and planned to go
back.
In the meantime, "the head of the company became assistant
director of the Budget Bureau, which
- vice
president of the First National Bank in Chicago, John-- (I've got to get
help on this one, I just never can remember this man's name)--Gleason,
John Gleason.
John Gleason had been head of the Veterans Administration
under President Kennedy, I
- the apologies were addressed?
G:
One would have been Senator [Arthur] Watkins of Utah, and the other--the name slips
[from] me--was from New Jersey; it was a long name, I can't remember. He called
Watkins a "handmaiden of communism," and the other one was just
- subordinates
in the agency that the coordination with the White House and the guidance
from the White House to the Arms Control Agency was almost on a daily
basis, you might say--particularly when items of arms control nature were
coming to a head
- the Truman Administration.
At
that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F:
I'll refresh you on that.
November '48.
He was a new Senator; he had been elected in
Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he
was named
- every accommodation that you could get
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
You could have a radio, you
could have lights, you could have refrigeration, and you could have
everything that they had in the Waldorf-Astoria with a good highway,
a good
- , although his
early record in the Congress would indicate that as a young congressman he
was quite liberal and supported all of President Roosevelt's programs, all
the New Deal legislation.
But by the time he came back to the Senate, I would
say that he