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- morning?
K:
In the morning. And the gentleman said, "You're taking me a little
,
fast. " From that conversation, there was developed the pattern
for the organization.
They did have good foremen.
Through that
project, NYA provided the unskilled labor
- in some of these telephone
calls:
"we're afraid you're too late; you should have
spoken up sooner; we have committed ourselves."
Yell, we
knew he was getting that sort o.f talk; we could hear his
end of the conversation.
And all this time he
- of some of her conversations with Lyndon
to which I was not privy at the time.
made that direct remark to me.
But I can't say he ever
But we did talk prospectively.
He wanted me to run for attorney general some day.
to run for governor some day.
run
- it."
Mr. Johnson was there the next morning, and, as I recall,
the Senator had a little conversation with him and then sent him down to
someone in the department.
The outcome of it was, with other help that
may have been registered, Mr. Johnson
- think he was at that
time maybe in Johnson City, or maybe he was in San Marcos.
He said
he and his father were going to drive down that afternoon or evening
to Corpus at Dick's suggestion by a telephone call, I think, previously
made to Lyndon to talk
- that matter :came up, atld he got on the telephone.
He called
the Pentagon, and he didn't 'ask them, he ordered them to send a plane
and get that boy and bring him up here to Arlington National Cemetery
and bury him with full military honors.
And they did
- all the time, all over the
state, visiting these camps, every type of NYA project that he possibly could.
G:
Did he, in his conversations with you, in staff meetings, etc, do you recall his sating
anything which along this line he expressed what
- and conversation.
I was fortunate to
be among that group and some of my fondest memories
are of those occasions when we'd all gather at one of
our houses or in our backyards--the Jesse Kellams, the
Bill Deasons, the John Connallys, Jake Pickle and Sugar
Critz
- and our first meeting with him.
P:
What were your first impressions of Lyndon Johnson?
B:
He was just a likeable type of fellow.
with you, and he would listen to you.
conversation.
He seemed to make himself agreeable
He wouldn't carryon all the
He