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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (remove)
  • Date > 1970-10-02 (remove)
  • Contributor > Porter, Paul Aldermandt, 1904-1975 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Paul A. Porter, interview 1 (I), 10/2/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • this, that in the 1960 campaign at the convention, I was not out there, but President Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, had said to a friend of mine that, "Lyndon B. Johnson is the ablest man in public life and is the best qualified, but the only trouble is that he can't
  • Interaction with LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and other politicians; LBJ’s senate race and maneuver to get on Texas ballot; conflict with oil industry because LBJ did not support mandatory oil increase; supporting Kennedy; Nixon’s Supreme Court argument; LBJ’s