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- 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
- Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections
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a filibuster, and that stopped us because the Democratic leader Mansfield
would not try to break the filibuster.
You see, the way you break the
filibuster is by meeting around the clock, just keep on meeting, and Mansfield
absolutely refused to do
- Kennedy-F:
Did you get the impression he'd placed too much faith in the power of the
Senate?
H:
That, and I think he also placed too much faith in the power of his old
friend, the House Speaker, Sam Rayburn, and a few of the key Democrats
throughout
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press
