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and this again is something that is just a historical point, I've
always thought that both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower suffered a
great serious loss in the first nine months of their first terms.
When Senator Taft died the Republican Party control
- leaders of free world after WWII; Little Rock and civil rights; Ike against forced bussing; states rights; Senator Joseph McCarthy; Ike and LBJ had heart attacks in 1955; Dulles and foreign affairs; 1956 Hungarian uprising; Israel and Suez Crisis; Sputnik
- it was not that favorable that he was considered
in 1960, for instance.
candidate for President.
He was not considered by our people as the ideal
You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course
lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy.
When he was selected
- First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
- in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a
remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his
becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he
didn't want to be the vice
- temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
