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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
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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
- See all online interviews with Graham Purcell
- Purcell, Graham
- Oral history transcript, Graham Purcell, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1969, by David G. McComb
- Graham Purcell
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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
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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
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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
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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