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- and radio from here. It is possible, although I am not certain
of it, that Edward R. Murrow was among those in attendance. Because as a House
member, he commanded that kind of level of folks.
Well, at this meeting, the Texas editors in my conversations
- conversion at that point. So Mrs. Hobby gets
up and she's got herself a written-out speech to introduce Johnson, and you know, it was
not a you-know-who-I-mean, the junior-Senator-from-Texas-type speech, it was a
thought-out, three- or four-page speech. She
- in the hallway thinking that was the subject of the
conversation. He said, referring back to the conversation in 1946 that I just related, "You
don't think that I'm here because I want to be here," which was acknowledgment of his
irritation with me for turning
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trying to fit them into a salary slot, because that's too long and complicated. After having
asked if they were this thing or something else, then if I got inside I'd start a conversation.
I said, "What is this office? I was looking for this other one
- primary were supporters; that is the best sort of politics. When you're
just running around speaking to an audience on the square or some audience that just
comes to hear a political speech, you may be talking to people who are hopelessly beyond
conversion
- was very enthusiastic about me coming to
Washington, as was Allan Shivers, interestingly.
G:
Do you recall once a conversation that you had with Johnson about how the blacks would
rebel if they did not receive a more equitable--
B:
Well, that's