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  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -17- Not a bit in the world and I would say that there were over 150,000 people on the streets welcoming them as they came through. It was a much larger turnout for Kennedy and Johnson than Nixon got
  • it. I had a feeling that President Kennedy was convinced that he had this vote, that he was going to get it, that there was no way that Nixon could take it away from him. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
  • that was said, I can't prove that. But some people that told me that I respect yery highly, and I wouldn't doubt their statements a bit. But Jim Murray was sent home, and it was a crucial vote. We lost it by a tie. Nixon broke the tie and voted against us
  • of the things that is interesting about Lyndon, I very seldom have seen a fellow--but Nixon's a case and Lyndon's a case--who didn't collapse inside when having screwed his courage to the sticking point to LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • that there's anything that I can get into that would afford me some security in the event that this happens?" I thought a while, and I recalled this station, KTBC, which was then located where the Nixon-Clay Business College is. It was owned by a fe 11 ow
  • . But I think if Johnson-Nixon had been the candidates, Johnson would have won. M: He was I believe he would have. It's just been said that his political machine, or the Democratic National Committee was not in terribly good shape in the beginning. T
  • , the position of the persons in charge of the Texas Democratic party was that therefore Eisenhower and Nixon ought to go on the ballot as the Democratic nominees in Texas because our Democratic state convention went on record as favorable toward them