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  • the attitude .of his constitue~cy th~ Mr. Yarborough, ' for instance. M: What ·about · the alleged strain on relations with Robert Kennedy and Mr • . Johnson which some people say date f~o~ this vice presid~nt decision? Was . this the first instnace
  • Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
  • and LBJ's first days as president; LBJ mistreats staff aides; difficulty in getting proper appointees; Robert McNamara characterized; Liz Carpenter; JFK and LBJ administrations compared; newspaper leaks; Panama; McGeorge. Bundy operation; civil service
  • across the continent from each other. C: And I probably saw more of Jack Kennedy, if everyone will hereafter forgive me for referring to him as Jack, because he was close to my age, he was a little older than I was, but we were such good friends
  • Baker, Robert G.
  • convention, his possibi lities as a preside ntial or a vice · preside ntial nominee were remote -and not very practic al. I was not involved in that 1956 campaign. F: You anticipa ted that this was going to be a Kefauver versus Kennedy fight? P: I'm
  • for vice president; Judge Robert Hall and the Alabama delegation; Lloyd Hand and the JFK appearance before Protestant ministers in Houston; the 1960 campaign in Texas; LBJ helps Henry B. Gonzalez, brings Cantinflas to San Antonio; the special senatorial
  • had got an understanding agreement approving the staff and getting minority council. I had urged Senator McClellan to recommend Robert Kennedy for the position of minority council. G: Let's talk about some legislative matters during the 1950s, when
  • guess it was 1947. F: Yes, that'd be about right. L: Yes, 1947, I guess. that. I'd been assistant about a year and a half before Jatk Roberts was elected district judge, and Archer resigned. What'd I say the governor's name was? F: Jester? LBJ
  • the party as head of the delegatio n to the national conventio n. And then in 1960 I helped him at the time he was nominated for Vice President when President Kennedy was rtmning. F: Well, now in 1956, Governor Stevenson had not made it clear whether he
  • , in nominating John Kennedy as vice president. F: Texas went for Kennedy over Kefauver, which surprised a lot of . LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org '· ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More
  • , and they were trying to figure out, the $tetson,~ompany was, ~~w to get a hat on President Kennedy. So they finally decided that ifthey could make LBJ a hat, since he did ~ • ' ' I \ ' • ­ wear hats and was out on the Ranch some, that maybe Kennedy