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- , but there were
relatively minor in nature .
M:
Did he ever comment to you, either at the convention or later, about
the nature of the vice presidency, his opinion of it?
B:
No, not in a personal conversation, nor did I have any occasion to be
present in groups
- don't think there's any comparison.
I think Lyndon Johnson is head
and shoulders above Nixon, in intellectual capacity and
feeling .
And yet,
you know, in personal conversation, Lyndon Johnson is a
very warm man,
and he's funny as all hell!
He's one
- , enormous.
M:
Is this just the converse of the way it was with Kennedy, that
Kennedy came over well on television and in private--
S:
Yes, absolutely, in private, disaster.
I don't mean a disaster, but
he was, first of all, ill at ease with men of power
- talked to me, and the conversation was just about
this .
He said, "Alan, I've been hearing a lot and reading a lot about the
Northeast Airlines case .
As far as I'm concerned, I want good air service
in New England and whatever you do to accomplish