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- of the then, I identified later as the Johnson men
there.
Woody was talking to the Senator.
Then he said, "The Senator
wants to talk to you, Jack."
When I got on the phone, I probably had never had a private telephone conversation with Lyndon Johnson in 1960
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he walked into that room I sensed he was overwhelmed by the immensity
of the office and was quite docile and withdrawn and overwhelmed by the
President, who took the initiative immediately and started the conversation going and never let up
- and then to Florida.
V:
As I recall the conversations that he had with me, he realized that John
Connally as governor would bear the brunt of this visit, and he knew
that there were problems between Connally and Yarborough.
Also, he
wasn't sure this was the time
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Really iron discipline.
V:
That's right, I was quite impressed by it.
Later on that evening he
went down to the podium at the Waldorf and delivered a fine speech, engaging in conversation with people at the head table, and I daresay
- in various
memoranda and conversations with him to get him to use television in
a different way.
I was opposed to the teleprompters, I just think
they were wrong.
He was much better when he was speaking from notes.
And I tried to get him to go