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- ~"as Governor Connally's vie't-l that
Texas had done a very substantial part with regard to the fund-raising.
But in any event President Kennedy and, perhaps, Attorney General
.
Robert Kennedy and others l.Jere desirous of having a fund-raising dinner
in Texas
- and concern for Governor Connally’s health; the Yarborough/Connally split; fund-raising in Texas for 1964; planning the trip for JFK and LBJ to Texas; Kennedy popularity in Texas; what was done with the money from the cancelled Austin dinner 11/22/63; guest
- that he was not going to
run again and the vacancy was then created when Larry O'Brien resigned
as Postmaster General to assist Senator Robert Kennedy's campaign for the
PreSidency, I believe the President decided
~hat
the appointment to the
Cabinet
- of the Labor Department and Secretary of Labor Bill Wirtz; Wirtz’s temporary resignation; Robert McNamara’s resignation; setting the President’s appointments.
- thing that concerned me
was I couldn't really envision anybody else lead~~3 this country as
Presidc':t.
None of the people that \'icre on the scene, Hhich of course
at that tir.:c included Senator Robert Kcnr.cdy and Vice President Humphrey-I had net
- impatience; MLK and Resurrection City; Ramsey Clark and his relationship with LBJ; wire-tapping; J. Edgar Hoover; Robert Kennedy’s assassination; getting Secret Service protection for Presidential candidates; the Commission on Violence; Lloyd Cutler
- that Connally was secretly helping Nixon; LBJ briefing Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace; phone communication on airplanes; a cancelled trip to Russia; transition among the staff; Stuart Udall renaming D.C. Stadium to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium; the time
- history ,,,ill reflect that he is a fine judge.
He came from the
Congress to the federal judiciary under a little bit af a tainted circurnstance because there were a lot of people that accused President
Kennedy, who nominated him to the Federal District