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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > 1960 campaign (remove)
  • Time Period > Presidential (Nov. 22, 1963-Jan. 20, 1969) (remove)

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  • that in conversation over the telephone from Chicago, and he told Wallace, and Wallace came around to my office in the Congress Hotel where I was staying, and he was very much disturbed. He said he thought I was a friend of his, and I told him I was, but that didn't
  • : Then what happened about 1960? J: Well, I got a telephone call from Senator Johnson one day, and he told me that his right to run for the Senate and as Vice President had been challenged in the federal court in Austin; and that he wanted me to represent
  • , and I could feel we organized, as far as the labor group goes, I think one of the very best campaigns on the telephone. first telephone banks. That was one of the That is where we first got women started in doing this, and it paid off. But along
  • his own mind. There were some good meetings of the Cabinet on matters of legislation and things of that character. B: In your personal conversations with Mr. Kennedy, did he ask you for advice in areas other than specifically Commerce things? example
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 7 F: Did that come by telegram or telephone? B: Came by telephone and Coke and Bob Murphy and I were riding together. I was riding in the car with them; that was Coke's campaign
  • as do law students. So I helped him with his campaign. F: In what ways did you help him? H: Oh, I rang doorbellsistuffed envelopesi called people on the telephone; just helped out any way I could. F: Did you confine yourself to work in this Austin
  • a conversation on the telephone. did come back not long after that. Secretary Dulles on the Formosa Straits. Administration in Congress. And I was in a conference with I supported the Eisenhower I don't recall--. It seems like there was some language
  • was practicing law, I became very interested in Democratic Party politics. In 1948 I became especially interested in supporting Lyndon Johnson for the United States Senate. (blank tape at this point: pause for telephone call) Of course, I was aligned
  • at that-- V: Not really. I think there were some--in reconstructing that conversation, I think it was fairly clear what job they were talking about, but there were no specifics. B: And then when did a specific offer come? V: A few days after that. I