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- to that.
a liberal all my life."
He said, "I have been
He pointed out a number of things he had done
very early in his Congressional career, stands he had taken, particularly
stands in behalf of rights of minority people.
I feel, first of all,
that those labels
- frequently in those Congressional days?
W:
Yes.
I saw him--each time I carne to Washington I visited with him.
And
each time he carne to New York he stayed with us at my horne.
F:
Did he come frequently?
W:
Well, no, not very frequently.
F:
Did you
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential elections
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But they talked
The President used to kid him, too, at the
Gridiron Clubs or places like that about Landslide Johnson, by
winning his first thing
call him Landslide.
by
a few votes, and in public he used to
The very way he said it was with love and
affection
- in 1960--my observation is that LBJ confused national presidential politics with
congressional politics.
He thought that if you had a senator or
a congressman who was for you ,that this meant that that state
would be for you.
The fact, of course
- . Of course, in my state when I
was in business, I was called a radical by my competitors because I started the five-day
week, the thirty-six hour week, the first profit-sharing plan of any business in the state, a
summer cabin for the employees, a flying club
