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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Contributor > O'Brien, Lawrence F. (Lawrence Francis), 1917-1990 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 5 (V), 12/5/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • took in the national interest. G: Were there any in that meeting that proposed an alternative course of action? O: There might have been one other alternative of course. I envision Senator [J. William] Fulbright had some fairly extensive comment
  • . Edgar Hoover's power; LBJ's relationship with MLK; contrasting JFK's and LBJ's approaches to what became the 1964 Civil Rights Act; JFK's physical condition; LBJ as storyteller versus JFK as listener; LBJ's outward showing of emotions versus JFK's
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was J. Edgar Hoover and Bobby must have authorized it. It was harmful. I believe it probably was the [Drew] Pearson columns. We were persuaded this was planted and most unfairly presented to harm to Bobby. G: Did you see Hoover behind it or Johnson