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Well, fortunately that was before the Smith-Connally Act and it
was before Taft-Hartley and there were no inhibitions as against
appropriate contributions.
So I suggested that he ought to talk
to then-Secretary-Treasurer, a man named Tom Kennedy, now
- LBJ Presidential Library
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
INTERVIEt~
I
DATE:
November, 1968
I NTERV I E~IEE :
VANN M. KENNEDY
INTERVIEWER:
PAUL BOLTON
PLACE:
Corpus
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- Kennedy, Vann
- Oral history transcript, Vann Kennedy, interview 1 (I), 11/xx/1968, by Paul Bolton
- Vann Kennedy
- said,
'~ell,
getting ready to go to the airport now.
as a matter of fact, I'm
I'll be in there tonight."
''Well, he'll see you tomorrow."
So I went by and went over to see him, and he said that he wanted
me to take the chairmanship of the Kennedy
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F:
That's the one where they chose Mrs. Randolph, right?
L:
That's right.
F:
What did you do in the 1960 campaign?
L:
I was active for the Kennedy-Johnson ticket, and I maintained that
The Convention I'm thinking about is a different [one
- ; “Viva Kennedy-Johnson Clubs;” LBJ’s effort to build up leaders of Mexican background; LBJ’s political sense; BRACERO problems; U.S.-Mexico relations; LBJ’s appeal to Mexican-Americans
- was.
I'm glad he did.
We were over at Mr. Rayburn's--Ann and I
--for dinner the night before he left for the convention in Los Angeles.
Of course, that's what we were talking about, and there was a lot of talk
about [John] Kennedy had it in the bag
- the parents were in Texas at the time of
President Kennedy's assassination.
Lynda was in Austin at the University,
but Luci was--I was out at the Elms with Luci.
And that afternoon I went
by the school to pick her up to take her home.
That is one of my
- with a shaggy hairdo.
He was Visibly amused.
shall never forget.
grandchildren.
It was Senator John F. Kennedy.
And thaUs an experience that I
I wished I could record it for my
It was a great experience for us.
PB:
Did you have other contacts