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  • , but when it happened I remember President Johnson said to me when I told him that I wanted to do it-­ F: Did you talk to him. personally? H: Yes. I said, "I hope you feel all right about my going. you say? How do you feel about it?" He smiled
  • so felt, I b.e 1 i eve, that I was trying to vote my convictions. I'm neither far right nor left and because of that, sometime my vote has been looked at as being objective. At least I hope so. F: Do you think you got more mail because of the fact
  • was an office that sometimes made the man. Somehow maybe it's because either my faith in our form of government or maybe my hopes for it--that I believe this is true. Maybe I just hate to think that someone who shouldn't be President could become President. B
  • . But, I talked to Sam Rayburn in his hotel suite at the Biltmore in Los Angeles a couple of days before the actual nomination. Though he said nothing overt, it was · quite clear that he had little hope that the President would win. He was amiable
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