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H:
That's quite right.
F:
You didn't assign additional people to McCarthy or Robert Kennedy?
H:
No, I should say not.
F:
At the convention in '68, did you see evidence of the alleged heavy-hand
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- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- ; reputation as a hawk in Vietnam erroneous; Robert Kintner; rivalry between RFK and LBJ; Presidential press secretaries; LBJ seeking professional advice on TV style; conscious of Texas twang; Barry Goldwater; George Wallace; 3/31 speech; evaluation of LBJ
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inception in 1957, so that means you served through now four presidents.
H:
That's right, all four.
M:
Did Mr. Johnson use the Civil Rights Commission any differently from either
President Eisenhower or Kennedy, or for that matter
- in his office drinking bourbon. He made some kind of a
remark like this, "I'll never trade my vote for a gavel." I was asking him about his
becoming a vice-presidential candidate under Kennedy. He said he'd never do that; he
didn't want to be the vice
- temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
- we're talking about now.
F:
Right.
P:
The farm-to-market roads, they were beginning to talk about them but
not do anything about them.
You see, the Highway Commission had just
been formed with Robert Hubbard as chairman, and they were not too
active
- the election of 1960, when
all four of us went into the government.
F:
Yes.
M:
So I became involved in politics really through Governor Stevenson,
and then to the Kennedys.
F:
How far back does you acquaintance with--I don't know which title to
give him
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson
- it was not that favorable that he was considered
in 1960, for instance.
candidate for President.
He was not considered by our people as the ideal
You know, he was a candidate in 1960, and of course
lost out in the convention to John F. Kennedy.
When he was selected
- First meeting LBJ; Labor’s opinion of LBJ in the Senate and support of Kennedy-Johnson ticket; LBJ as VP active on the Space Council; Landrum-Griffin Bill; talk with LBJ after the JFK assassination; LBJ’s legislative record; influence of organized
- that time in which you're beginning to
think about, 1960, and it shows John F. Kennedy with the controversial
issue of labor, and Stuart Symington with the controversial issue of certain
armed forces propositions, and Lyndon Johnson
- which
would prove to our ultimate disadvantage.
Now my position was public,
was well known.
When President Kennedy sent an emissary to me to ask that I remain
on as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, I could immediately see
that having me
- President Kennedy was made president
and then continued on when Johnson succeeded to that
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and this again is something that is just a historical point, I've
always thought that both Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Eisenhower suffered a
great serious loss in the first nine months of their first terms.
When Senator Taft died the Republican Party control