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  • of time working on Morse. It seems to me it never did him any good. But, oh, yes, he worked on everybody. F: Was he looking over his shoulder after 1956 at young Senator Kennedy? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org R: ORAL HISTORY
  • to campaign for Bobby. G: Another theme that seems to run through a lot of your memos here is that Johnson was preoccupied with Robert Kennedy. R: Yes, he was. G: How did this manifest itself? R: Well, he just didn't like him, made it perfectly clear
  • Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
  • ; 1968 convention; Anna Chennault and Nixon; LBJ and the Kennedy people
  • , "Lyndon, that's not true at all." He had that feeling. He worked on it. He thought the New Dealer, the young New Dealers, who were an arrogant bunch-I used to say about the Kennedy crowd, "I've seen nobody as arrogant in Washington since we grew up
  • , do you recall? R: Yes. Yes. The question was with Texas and the vice president run--it ended up in a Kefauver and Kennedy race--who Texas should be for. Johnson wanted to be for Hubert Humphrey, but he couldn't move the delegation that fast
  • that Kennedy--think it would work. F: Does this about wrap this up? R: I think that does it. F: Thank you, Mr. Rowe. R: All right, sir. [End of Tape 1 of 1 and Interview III] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY