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  • . And the real kicker came when it became obvious that his attitude was clear-cut on what was right and what was wrong at the University. I date the end of the real problems at the University from that dinner that night. ment that I had suffered terminated
  • , there will probably be another conference call. read-out. We'll discuss what might come up and we receive a In the meantime, we're in touch with each other on an hourly basis and if necessary all night long. M: So you don't get at cross purposes. D: No; quite
  • have been secretaries to Mr. Justice Holmes. I was reading about it in Dean Acheson the other night. [I don't know] whether we find a hero in the old man and do not have the capacity for adulation that is demanded of presidents. Dean Acheson had his
  • LBJ's interests in Sputnik and civil rights; activities at the LBJ Ranch the night of the Sputnik launch; Corcoran's relationship with FDR; the 1936 Minimum Wage Bill; Corcoran's preference for a career in law rather than politics; expectations
  • on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh -4Hall that night. Lyndon took first. The title of that speech was, "Texas Undivided and Indivisible," which was a very popular speech in those:days. The next year he went
  • wanted to make you friendly as possible. Yes, you get an intimation of . . . . F: And did he read you? B: Well, I was impressed with him. F: No, I mean did he read your copy? Did you get an idea that when I didn't agree with him-- you wrote
  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org -9More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 8 o'clock that night. And to make the arrangements. me much
  • for granted then. They could bust out of that and go any way they wanted to. We were coming in from Delaware one time, Senator Kerr and I, late one night, from a speaking for the re-election of Senator Allen Frear. At this time--this was 1958 or 1959--people
  • know, I want every person to be two people to a room, you know, on this trip and I want II And he was capable, then, of sort of abusing you if you didn't fulfill this. He was capable of getting up in the middle of the night and going around to see
  • of Hinojosa said, precisely on the occasion of the visit of President Kennedy to Mexico, "You remember that night that we went out and took two girls? One of them, the one that was with me," said Mr. Hinojosa, "was Miss Jacqueline Bouvier." I did not remember
  • ]? That that portrait should [be selected]. Actually, it was even in the papers. I hadn't read it, and some friends called me, and they told me, "Do you know your portrait is being used for a stamp?" I was quite surprised. F: You'll have one of the greatest
  • at the University of Pittsburgh and later at Harvard, got this notion called the tipping theory, and it read very, very, very impressive. The only trouble with it is, it's like the theory that there is a time when if your temperature gets to be a certain amount