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  • DISCUSSION OF NYT STORY ON LBJ'S ALLEGED ENDORSEMENT OF RFK IN NEW YORK SENATE RACE; LBJ EMPHASIZES HIS LONG-STANDING RECORD OF NOT BECOMING INVOLVED IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS, INCLUDING THOSE OF SAM RAYBURN
  • LBJ THANKS KNIGHT FOR ENDORSEMENT, ASKS HIM FOR ADVICE, REMINISCES ABOUT SAM RAYBURN'S VIEWS ABOUT ADVICE GIVEN PRESIDENTS; WALTER JENKINS' RECENT AND 1959 ARRESTS; POSSIBILITY JENKINS WAS FRAMED; BOBBY BAKER'S ALLEGED ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES
  • OFFICE CONVERSATION ON SENATORS, LBJ'S EOB OFFICE, WOMEN IN DNC; DISCUSSION OF RUMORS RFK INSIDERS WILL MEET IN HYANNIS PORT OR ATLANTIC CITY; RFK; REACTION TO LBJ'S STATEMENT ON VP NOMINATION; LBJ REMINISCES ABOUT SAM RAYBURN, 1940 RACE FOR VP
  • was-- C: As you well know, Lyndon Johnson and Sam Rayburn threw Texas votes to Kennedy on the second ballot. They went for Albert Gore the first time. Not because they were for Kennedy, but because they hated Estes Kefauver so much. I don't mean hated
  • Personal observations of LBJ and JFK before their White House years, especially LBJ in the congress; LBJ's Senate campaigns; the 1960 campaign; "Whistle Stop" campaign of Lady Bird; the Bobby Baker scandal; Rayburn-LBJ relationship; LBJ