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  • gathered, a different LBJ began to take form in his mind. This new Johnson was the last New Dealer, determined to see Franklin Roosevelt's program through to its proper fruition. LBJ wanted to fight the War on Poverty. Johnson was not inter­ ested
  • om E. JAMES INSURANCE - & Co., INC. FOLSOM REGISTERED SECURITIES DEALER □ F"FICE PHONE AREA Box 285 CULLMAN, ALABAMA June I 8 , 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson The White House Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President: Congratulatlons
  • of Protocol Poulain I called Mary Benjamin and she has nothing ....... I Am still tryingt CP. S. No? (the Document Dealer) .,..,- c.....F L.c.-r~ .. in New York - Auaut 1 wa• ""Y 10, 1964 d.teappolat.4 wlta the pbotenat:&c copy a.ttac:~ ol t. 114
  • of dealer: Austria Belgium Canada France Ceylon Denmark Greece Great Britain Germany (W) Japan Israel Italy The Netherlands Norway Peru Switzerland Spain Sweden Turkey Uganda and all European countries under Communist governments, where guns are sold
  • encounter some of the best conversation. They were two old New Dealers from the very beginning. Then there was a newspaper man named Bob Sherrod. Was he with Time? I forget. I think so. We'd go to his house for cocktails, and indeed, we went to a goodly
  • that the reputation he had of being a Texas wheeler-dealer is something he did not want history to confirm that that reputation ever existed while he was president. And I would imagine that he was personally hurt by things like Bobby Baker and Walter Jenkins. He just
  • was of course famous for being a wheeler-dealer in the Senate long before anybody considered him as a potential president. Anyway, I marked this in my mind. Cliff had told me to take a biography over to the President, over to Juanita Roberts. So I got
  • of the product sold to the Soviets. He said that the U.S. Government should not go in to try to protect a private dealer. The Government is not in a position to police any such agreement in the USSR . We must :i:ely on the seller to include in his sales
  • of viam>th toward Te.ms because of the hospltallty they were shown wblle' In our.State. My good . ~hes cane wt.th my thanks to you. Slncerely, Lyndon B. Johnson '.Mr. Ted Read . License Beverage Dealers•.Assoclatlon Perry·Broob lkdld1Dg Austin. Texas
  • of the press critIcism about him being a wheeler-dealer, conniver, less than anxious to deal with the truth at all times would have been just LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • because when he first ran for the House of Representatives in 1937, he had--it was a special election--he had corne out for the President's Court Packing Plan. That instantly and forever identified him as a New Dealer in the minds of many people in Texas
  • to listen to him really get started in a very spontaneous, very earnest way about what he saw as the goals of this country . And it . was not the picture of the wheeler-dealer, the riverboat gambler type of operator, yet there were nuances
  • of your own fatigue. Every city looks alike. You know, the approaches to any city in the United States from an airport are identical. A bunch of the used car dealers on the way in, gasoline stations, roadhouses. You get about the same speech. Well, you
  • reserves, dealer reserves � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
  • a guy that's a wheeler and dealer and a goer and a goer, and he never slowed down. The main relationships in those days I had with him was back in this NYA period. And of course the Authority was entering into some projects during that time. now
  • calls me. G: And the President got word of this? T: Oh, you bet. Absolutely. So we had to get rid of him, you had those wheelers and dealers. G: He was using his status to impress somebody? T: Yes. Sure, has to be. Yet the guy was a top-notch man
  • Dealer. As such, he com­ mands considerable support from the ranks of the Truman backers. He also has the great political asset of having behind him Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, his political "father," who will be in there fight­ ina for Johnson
  • "Not disposed to fight the plan on safety. 11 He predicts jurisdictional problems between Ways and Means versus Public Works rathe1· than Public Works versus Commerce. "Auto dealers will fuss. 11 Will gd along with the program "If you don't kick auto makers too
  • great difficulty with them. They thought I was a Texan, a Johnson Texan, a big operator. Several of them wouldn't get very close to me because they didn't think they ought to, a wheeler-dealer. G: Did you work differently with the Republicans than you
  • , the Altmeyers, Mrs. Ellen Woodward. But all ardent New Dealers. And getting Aubrey Williams off in a corner and talking to him, and him saying that he really thought Lyndon ought to be back and working in a more productive capacity, and that he was going to 24