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  • myself. I did check I wrote a letter I remember it was at a time when Peter Marshall was quite a popular and widely heralded minister. He would have been in that period somewhat like Billy Graham today. And Mrs. Peter Marshall had come to Dallas
  • INTERVIEWEE: GRAHAM PURCELL INTERVIEWER: DAV ID Mc COMB PLACE: Congressman Purcell IS office in the Cannon Building, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1 M: First of all, let's get some background about you. Where were you born and when, and where did you
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  • Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb
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  • that assignment that I finally went to work for [Henry] Cabot Lodge in the embassy as the mission coordinator and stayed there in that job, or one like it, throughout all the rest of the ambassadors, all of Ambassador [Ellsworth] Bunker's tour and all of Graham
  • Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under
  • ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
  • , and I'll understand why you wouldn't, but Lansdale was a rather legendary figure I think in the press and popularly, although I think Graham Greene didn't think as much of him as a good many other people and saw him as rather a sinister figure than
  • : Yes. Straighten me out. W: That's right. Frank Graham had left by now. Frank Graham had left the United States Senate. He was defeated in 1950; served on until January, 1951. F: I knew him fairly well. What was your impression? alize after
  • : Did you serve on the debating team with him? D: No, I couldn't make it. He made it; his debating partner was a fellow named Elmer Graham; it was a good team, and it was a little too much competition for me. F: Were you involved in any
  • the convention to an end without a riot and a split in the party. So I guess that's how it happened. behind the door. I'm not sure what went on But anyhow, I think Rayburn engineered it. G: Did you know Phil Graham, the publisher of the Washington Post? M
  • Bolling -- I -- 8 could be with the press, both in terms of columnists and editors . He was a positive genius with them, despite his reputation with reporters . influential . He had a very close friend in Phil Graham, who was And he had demonstrated