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- , and I was a speech writer and there wasn't anything much lower than a
speech writer.
(Laughter)
But I have come on to much more exalted planes.
Now, in this library there are some forty some million papers and they are very--I
think Mr. [Robert "Bob
- elected,
But that's an examp l e .
could hav e al lowed his n ame to go on the ballot and didn't.
He
He didn't
active l y campaign himself in New Hampshire.
B:
Were Rob e rt Kennedy's activities involved in this, too?
C:
Well, par tly because he di
- th t he Pr e siĀ
dent a grea t deal.
He was a very v is ib le Pr es s Sec r e t ary --ver y, v e r y v is i ble ,
more so than anybody I guess.
We l l, Saling er was v i s ib le in Kennedy 's
days, of course--bu t Bi l l wa s the fi rst Pre ss
- a person serves very
closely with a President--no matter who it is, particularly in a job
like that--and when he held Kennedv obviously in such affection.
~as
one of Kennedy's closest confidants, that carrier dedication was
an emotional experience
Jr
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Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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C:
Oh, yes, that 1 s right.
It's more folklore than a ny thin g .
Lord, I've
heard so much fo l k lore though about Eisenhower and Kennedy that we
j ust have added to the folklore about