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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 (remove)
  • Subject > Great Society (remove)

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  • as the Defense Department representative and I used to do a lot of the telephone business with the then-Vice President. M: He did take an active interest in that? Y: Yes. M: It wasn't just a title that [John F.] Kennedy assigned him? Y: Oh, no. No, he
  • 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
  • indicate why he wanted you to. . . ? Y: In his phone conversation? G: Didn't you say that he telephoned you before that task force meeting? Y: Oh. G: Right. Y: Why did he invite me? G: Right. Y: Well, we had worked together in the Kennedy
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh any of it was anybody's pet idea that they were pushing. And they did a little research and found that other people had proposed it and it had some background, but I think it just came out in the normal course of staff conversations