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Did you have any political occasions
to work with Mr. Johnson in this period?
H:
No.
I recall having, oh I would say, two or three telephone conversa-
tions with him.
I'd just call up and want some information on legislation
and what it was about
- in private meetings,
either in bipartisan meetings or by telephone.
F:
One of the early burdens that both President Eisenhower and Senator
Johnson had to face was the problem of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
H:
Yes.
F:
Both were criticized for not being
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M:
Did he call you as a commission member sort of as an informal adviser
from time to time?
H:
He was supposed to have been a great telephone user.
He may have called my predecessor as chairman, John Hannah, but I
- , because we had helped in a very substantial way
in electing them.
was constant.
So the contact with President Johnson from that time on
I would say that every week there would be two or three telephone
calls and visits.
I was in the White House
- the CIA.
What happened to
intelligence in that case?
M:
We had no advance notice of it.
advance notice of it.
I don't think that anybody had any
I learned about it by a telephone call from
Moscow telling me that Khrushchev was going to be removed
- Arms Control Disarmament
Agency--had frequent occasions to deal with Mr. Spurgeon Keeney.
M:
Do any of these sort of stand out in your mind?
Were you there, or were
these primarily through telephone conversations?
D:
Mostly, I think it was Mr
- know, everybody was
at lunch and everybody left his lunch untouched.
What happened to you in
the next three or four days following the assassination?
touch with the new President?
~'l
:
He got in touch \vi th me, yes.
F:
By telephone?
l.J:
Yes
- , we were in a recess and Mr.
Rayburn was the only one there from the House and Mr. Truman was over
there from the Senate--he was Vice President--and the telephone rang
and Mr. Rayburn was sitting at the desk like this, answered it, says,
"It's for you