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  • and personal contact "l'li th Senator Johnson was again through Senator Symington, and this Hould be in early probably F'ebruary or March 1954. 1954, I received a telephone call from i3enator Jymington one day asking me to come up to lunch. He advised
  • out to an airfield with others who were going down there. B: That would have been Sunday night when the violence was breaking out? P: That's right. So I went down, getting there about eight o'clock. I took up a station on the telephones
  • many people coming and going and coming and going. Did he talk to you about that? As far as just having a serious conversation of the whys and the wherefores and the pros and the cons, no, that never occurred. That wasn't his manner. He would
  • toward Senator Kennedy's candidacy? S: None at all from either party. I saw Senator Kennedy only once in that period, in April or May--had a long conversation with him at his house. I worked with his staff people a great deal on the telephone
  • these affairs small enough for you to have an opportunity to have conversation? K: Oh, no. The state dinners were those great things out in the Rose Garden and in the White House, things like that. No, I had no conversation except the ones on the telephone
  • of, lid say, two or maybe three telephone conversations with him regarding legislation. I was chairman of a subcommittee on agri cul ture, and these were usually conversati ons, very bii ef, deal i ng with bi 11 s that woul d come up. Of course, he wanted
  • you, and i t ' s a rather interesting incident, l think it lends some [insight]. The only time that I even remotely knew of a conversation with the Majority Leader was when at the end of the 1958 election, the Democrats had won that very large
  • was in the conversation with you but kind of listening [to them] . 0: Yes . They were sort of at the other side of the room . Or sometimes if Mr . Johnson wanted her, he'd say, "Bird, do you know so-and-so's Yet she would sit talking number," and she'd always have
  • 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
  • over in Lexington, Mississippi. B: Hazel Brannon Smith? C: Hazel Brannon Smith did. Oliver Emmerich in McComb did. I think that was all. B: Did you have any personal conversations or letters with Mr. Johnson in connection with the '64 campaign