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P:
The only time I really ever campaigned for him was in the 1960 election.
I was in law school in 1948. And so, yes, in the 1960 campaign as he
and Mr. Kennedy were running, I did do some rather modest [campaigning], and all in Texas, nothing
- Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
- Washington-newcomer Purcell to many people; Bobby Kennedy; the JFK assassination; Luci Johnson babysitting for the Purcells; the hard-working staff of the White House; the JFK to LBJ transition; Meat Inspection Act; LBJ communication problems with mass media
- during the Johnson Administration, as indeed during the Kennedy
Administration as well, was as executive secretary of the National Security Council from
1961 to 1969.
S:
That's correct.
M:
You had been a career Foreign Service officer in various
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of his responsibility.
B:
Did the activity on the Commission change much when Cliff Alexander took
over as chairman?
H:
Let's keep the order.
ing byplay on that.
When Mr. Roosevelt resigned--there's a little interestYou see, Senator Robert Kennedy had
- interpose some questions as it seems judicious.
U:
All right. The question of Indian policy was one I found one of the most frustrating issues
of my Department. I made the rather foolish statement the day President Kennedy
announced my appointment--he
- Indian problems; Indian Bureau; Philco Nash; Robert Bennett; Alaska; VISTA; transition; relations with Mexico; oil; tidelands
- to McPherson,
I go back to the Hansion now on Sunday, March 31st, somewhere around noon,
and to Horace Busby.
I remember Buz shoved some yellow legal pages
across the table to me.
The first thing my eye fell on was a quote
from President Kennedy
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recall one instance where Lyndon Johnson did not personally read every
sentence of every letter.
And I think that someone like Juanita
Roberts, who knows about this aspect of the presidential office in
even greater detail, would corroborate