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  • . At that time I had known there was a young man on the Hill named Lyndon Johnson, who was the secretary for a congressman named [Richard] Kleberg and who had been head of the administrative assistants association in the House. I had known through other
  • , Lyndon Johnson and Horace Richards, Vernon Whiteside, Wilton Woods, Bill Deason, Albert Harzke, Walter Grady, and Archie Wiles LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID
  • 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
  • that he took. F: I don't know either. J: I don't recall whose seat that Kleberg took, but he went in at that time as secretary to Richard Kleberg. It was during that time that he met Lady Bird. My wife lived with the Terrells, C. V. Terrells, Judge C
  • connection? T: When Representative [Richard] Kleberg had been elected to Congress in LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • 7 You mentioned Richard Russell--Dick Russell was along. Sam never did play poker, but he liked to kibitz. Sam Rayburn, Homer [Thornberry] and Myron Blalock, Stu Symington, Lloyd Bentsen, and I've forgotten who else. But anyway we were playing
  • 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
  • , 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