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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-11-14 (remove)

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  • think he was at that time maybe in Johnson City, or maybe he was in San Marcos. He said he and his father were going to drive down that afternoon or evening to Corpus at Dick's suggestion by a telephone call, I think, previously made to Lyndon to talk
  • with the Achesons. And I remember at break£ast-- the first morning that we were there--Dean Acheson had a telephone call in the middle of breakfast and went out and then came back to the table. he said to me, "That was Senator Lyndon Johnson." And And he s a i d
  • for almost an hour. Secretary Freeman. that he was there." The President said, It turned out that it was "Well, I'm sorry, I didn't know Well, in any case he really seemed to enjoy the conversation and I certainly did, too. And he was very encouraging
  • , enormous. M: Is this just the converse of the way it was with Kennedy, that Kennedy came over well on television and in private-- S: Yes, absolutely, in private, disaster. I don't mean a disaster, but he was, first of all, ill at ease with men of power
  • what he thought this office needed. 1 ife We went to sit Now, I have to get into some of the problems that were existing at that time in order to really explain the context of the conversation with Ralph. LBJ Presidential Library http