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- witnessed that fight between Kennedy and Kefauver for the vice presidency?
T:
Oh, yes.
F:
How much did Senator Johnson show his preference to the Texas delegation in
I was very much in that.
that.
T:
Let's see if I can remember it.
You know at one
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
INTERVIEWEE:
ROBERT C. WEAVER
INTERVIEWER:
JOE B. FRANTZ
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- Weaver, Robert Clifton, 1907-1997
- Oral history transcript, Robert C. Weaver, interview 1 (I), 11/19/1968, by Joe B. Frantz
- Robert C. Weaver
- we're talking about now.
F:
Right.
P:
The farm-to-market roads, they were beginning to talk about them but
not do anything about them.
You see, the Highway Commission had just
been formed with Robert Hubbard as chairman, and they were not too
active
- and promoting Mr. Johnson wherever they could.
Sort of
advance men, as we called them.
F:
When did you first learn that he had been offered and had accepted the
vice presidential nomination by Mr. Kennedy?
P:
It was, of course, speculated in the newspapers
- , his accepting it?
D:
No, I really wasn't.
Tell you what I did.
After Kennedy was nominated
on the first ballot--of course, I was disappointed--I got on the plane
and carne on horne.
F:
But not surprised?
D:
Not surprised, no.
I got there a day