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  • : May I ask, sir, was that at your own initiative, or were you invited or encouraged by the administration to do that? A: President Kennedy apparently sent Morris Abrams who had been a prominent young lawyer here in Atlanta, who had then gone to New
  • picture of Morris Sheppard up on his wall, and Rayburn was having a drink and it made him feel rather nervous. He told Johnson finally, "I just find it hard to drink with Morris Sheppard's picture up there." prohibition amendment. Sheppard who
  • TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 I could even quote a very distinguished liberal on this--MOrris Abram, who is now president of Brandeis
  • became active in party affairs within the state, and at that time I lived in Daingerfield, Texas. P: In what capacity did you serve? W: I had no official capacity in 1951. I just worked within my precinct and within the four precincts of Morris County
  • , sir, I wanted to ask you about that. To back up into the '40 IS, even if you had not met Mr. Johns·--a had you formed an opinion about him? Had you classified him as a Congressman? M: Yes, I had. I was a pretty conservative young man, and it seemed
  • Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston Johnson
  • the United States Senate about 1912 or 1913--Morris Sheppard took his place, Senator Sheppard--that my father carried me to a speaking in Big Sandy where Daddy was teaching and where a man was speaking in behalf of Senator Bailey . To show you how interested
  • Johnson since then and felt really kind of sad about the fact that I had allowed my temper to get the best of me when somebody threatened to start a paper if I didn't support Johnson in his bobtail race for [Morris] Sheppard's office. While it probably