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- . GILLETTE
PLACE:
Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D. C.
Tape 1 of 1
B:
I arrived in Washington on the afternoon of March 16 [1948] and met with the
Congressman [Johnson] for the first time about seven o'clock that night. When I was at
the Kennedy
- , but it had an
appropriation.
The Leamon piece says that Bobby [Kennedy] rode to the Hill with this young
sociologist who finally enabled him to understand his point about delinquency when Bobby
said, "Oh, I see. If I'd been born here this might have happened
- that, though, I was back in Texas
and he called and he was really pleased this time, because the President himself had spoken
to him and you know that meant, "You stay out of the way, Busby. My friend John
Kennedy wants me to do this." They wanted him to go
- said Duckworth liked him generally?
B:
Yes. I don't remember how it trailed off. Back when we went to Hyannis Port after the
convention, Duckworth did not like the Kennedys. I forget what period he was in at that
time but he didn't like them. So we