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  • Collection > LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (remove)
  • Contributor > Murphy, Charles S. (Charles Springs), 1909-1983 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • nomination of the party in 1960 that he went about it the wrong way. [They said that] he waited too late to firmly announce, that he put too much reliance on endorsement by his colleagues in the Senate, that the other path, the path that John Kennedy chose
Oral history transcript, Charles S. Murphy, interview 2 (II), 5/29/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • that and particularly when he had a meeting not long after this announcement, first with Senator Bob Kennedy and then with Vice President Humphrey. At both of those meetings the President under- took to tell them something about his reasons for deciding not to run