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  • across the continent from each other. C: And I probably saw more of Jack Kennedy, if everyone will hereafter forgive me for referring to him as Jack, because he was close to my age, he was a little older than I was, but we were such good friends
  • Government Official b. Philadelphia, Pa., April 22, 1923. B.S., St. Josaph's College. Philadelphi ~ 1950; M.S·. in Pub. Affairs, ·Princeton, 1952; With iriternat. cliv. U.S. Bureau Budget, 1951-56; legislative asst. to Senator John F. Kennedy, 1956-57; staff
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
  • convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
  • the party as head of the delegatio n to the national conventio n. And then in 1960 I helped him at the time he was nominated for Vice President when President Kennedy was rtmning. F: Well, now in 1956, Governor Stevenson had not made it clear whether he
  • I· re d,01_n~J. , ' v:2 :: Tr1ey 1 ro. sit.ting back 9ig9lin~J- J\nd this is HQ'te Javits civil war ~Jo·in~J on in the South; U;ey ri1ove Kennedy in and th2y cut off the South from him and blm1 up the bridge. w~~~ Thi1t 1 s th~y w~nt to do
  • , in nominating John Kennedy as vice president. F: Texas went for Kennedy over Kefauver, which surprised a lot of . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org '· ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • I went to Coke, and I said; "Coke, nobody's presen­ ted me with your petition." So I satd, "Hell, I want to sign it. Who's got it?" And he said, well, old man Kennedy had it down there. F: Now who's old man Kennedy? L: He was a member
  • , and they were trying to figure out, the $tetson,~ompany was, ~~w to get a hat on President Kennedy. So they finally decided that ifthey could make LBJ a hat, since he did ~ • ' ' I \ ' • ­ wear hats and was out on the Ranch some, that maybe Kennedy
  • had got an understanding agreement approving the staff and getting minority council. I had urged Senator McClellan to recommend Robert Kennedy for the position of minority council. G: Let's talk about some legislative matters during the 1950s, when