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- think it was any sudden, overnight
decision that he made, because 1 had been in his presence where I
could have assumed very easily that this man was doing all he could
for this term and maybe would go on.
B:
Were you close to Robert Kennedy?
5:
Yes
- ; LBJ’s efforts in Vietnam; Martin Luther King’s assassination; working on the Commission for Federal-State Relations; LBJ inheriting JFK’s staff; being offered a federal appointment; LBJ deciding not to run in 1968; LBJ’s relationship with Robert Kennedy
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General Robert Kennedy or some of the other staff members?
Y:
I would say they were sort of lumped together. You sort of thought of them as the clique
or the clan, the Eastern Establishment. I guess the more unkind characterizations have
been the Mafia
- important precedent.
And,
as I remember, Lyndon Johnson did work for that bill.
B:
Yes, he did.
Then what was your attitude toward the 1960 Democratic
ticket of Mr. Kennedy and Mr. Johnson?
R:
Quite frankly, I was very distressed when Mr. Johnson