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- that in conversation over the
telephone from Chicago, and he told Wallace, and Wallace came around to
my office in the Congress Hotel where I was staying, and he was very
much disturbed.
He said he thought I was a friend of his, and I told
him I was, but that didn't
- :
Then what happened about 1960?
J:
Well, I got a telephone call from Senator Johnson one day, and he told
me that his right to run for the Senate and as Vice President had been
challenged in the federal court in Austin; and that he wanted me to
represent
- , and I
could feel we organized, as far as the labor group goes, I think one
of the very best campaigns on the telephone.
first telephone banks.
That was one of the
That is where we first got women started in
doing this, and it paid off.
But along
- his own mind.
There were some good meetings of the Cabinet on matters of legislation and
things of that character.
B:
In your personal conversations with Mr. Kennedy, did he ask you for advice
in areas other than specifically Commerce things?
example
- Library oral histories:
http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh
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F:
Did that come by telegram or telephone?
B:
Came by telephone and Coke and Bob Murphy and I were riding together.
I
was riding in the car with them; that was Coke's campaign
- as do law students.
So I helped him
with his campaign.
F:
In what ways did you help him?
H:
Oh, I rang doorbellsistuffed envelopesi called people on
the telephone; just helped out any way I could.
F:
Did you confine yourself to work in this Austin
- a conversation on the telephone.
did come back not long after that.
Secretary Dulles on the Formosa Straits.
Administration in Congress.
And I was in a conference with
I supported the Eisenhower
I don't recall--.
It seems like there was
some language
- was practicing law, I became very
interested in Democratic Party politics.
In 1948 I became especially
interested in supporting Lyndon Johnson for the United States Senate.
(blank tape at this point: pause for telephone call)
Of course, I was aligned
- at that--
V:
Not really.
I think there were some--in reconstructing that conversation,
I think it was fairly clear what job they were talking about, but there
were no specifics.
B:
And then when did a specific offer come?
V:
A few days after that.
I