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- place of
friends and have lunch and things like that.
F:
On these Board of Education meetings, did they just sort of develop?
P:
They sort of developed.
Say, Truman would some in--that's when Truman
was President--he'd come over about 5 o'clock
- remember when President Roosevelt
died; Harry Hopkins called the Cabinet together, and he said,
I~e
must all
resign in..11ediately and insist on President Truman taking our resignation,
because no matter what President Truman did, lve would always say
- president taking office after the death of
a president had ever been before.
And I think this came about after
Harry Truman's bad experience with that, because it had just been
more institutionalized for the [vice] president to be kept informed.
F
- proud
of. He was a political appointee when Harry Truman appointed him to be our
ambassador in the Argentine, and I guess from then on his service was as distinguished as
anybody that we've ever had. He was in the same mold as David Bruce and Governor
- of his
head, which ;s the part of Kennedy's skull that had been blown out,
a.nd said, III can't tell YOU,ll and then unconsciously reached Up and
indicated where he had been hit.
wa.s much milling around.
Then the press bus arrived.
There
Everybody
- and successor General Creighton Abrams; 1968 campaign and transition; LBJ’ s relationship with black civil rights leaders; the organization of LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s credibility and faults; Roberts’ current activities.
- started in December '63,
so he has had that problem on his plate throughout his entire term.
And, of course, it's still going on, although it has s±mmered down
considerably.
However, I, for one, would not be surprised if we
had another flareup, because
- years?
S:
I had been appointed deputy director of the Budget Bureau by
President Truman in 1950 and had decided to go to Marshall Field
and Company at the invitation of the president of the company, who
had been a consultant to the Budget Bureau during
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INTERVIEWEE:
CARL SANDERS
INTERVIEWER:
THOMAS H. BAKER
PLACE:
Governor Sanders' office in Atlanta, Georgia
Tape 1 of 1
B:
Sir, do you recall if you met Mr. Johnson any time before the 1960s
while he was still a senator?
S:
Oh, yes, I had met Mr
- . McCORMACK
INTERVIEWER:
T. Harrison Baker
September 23, 1968
B;
Back in the 1930's, you had been in the House of Representatives
for about ten years, I believe, when the then freshman Congressman
Lyndon Johnson arrived.
Do you remember any first
- First impressions of LBJ; close relationship with LBJ; FDR-LBJ relationship; Truman was close to LBJ; LBJ’s national outlook; LBJ’s leadership in the Senate; progressive; Board of Education meetings; bill to admit Hawaii and Alaska; minimum
- and the Democrats
quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President.
I
wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson.
M:
My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was
Under Secretary of the Air Force during
- to acknowledge
that.
I told you that he wanted so much to sign the Medicare Bill in
Independence, went out there, and how pleased Truman---boy, he paid a
lot of attention to Truman.
I don't know if anyone ever asked Truman
LBJ Presidential Library
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- and Matsu, and
when we had just finished, of course, having stopped the Chinesesupported invasion of South Korea.
Humphrey, by the way, supported
that; he supported the commitment by Truman in 1950 of troops and
forces to the defense of South Korea
