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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Subject > Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 (remove)

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  • Thomas, who had telephone conversations or oral conversations with and I think wrote some letters to Bill Moyers and others advising them of our position in the matter. that was the extent of his [involvement]. But He did not appear for us at any
  • Relations Service has been available at times. helpful. I can't recall the specific instances, but it has been very And of course at the time of the King funeral I was in daily telephone conversation with the Attorney General Clark, and he offered me
  • be in the tub, and he would talk to you and two or three secretaries would come in and take letters . He never stopped . At night, the conversation would go on during supper and right up to bedtime . I would say that the press that followed him from all
  • /show/loh/oh Barnes--I --8 But John Connally--it was his first speech that he made, he made it by telephone after being in the car with Kennedy. guess that attracted a lot of attention. I But the story got on the front pages of all the papers
  • knew instantly who it was, and I stood up also. It was the President. He sat down in a little rocking chair there in Valenti's office, and we talked for more than an hour. Much of that conversation was devoted to the coming Republican
  • , I don't know. But r just sort of offered it and I was a little surprised it passed. G: I thi.nk there was al so an attempt to remove telephone and transportation taxes that he blocked. M: Do you recall? I think that was a little different. I
  • How McCarthy got to know LBJ; founding the Democratic Study Group; election against Senator Edward J. Thye; committee work; the Lewis Strauss nomination; LBJ as majority leader; telephone and transportation taxes; oil depletion allowance; campaign
  • in office, and that played a part in the campaign. I think all those three were factors but insofar as political organization and drive were concerned, it didn't exist. M: Did you have any particular conversations with Johnson during this period of time
  • did. F: Why didn't he go on the plane? C: Because by that time he knew he wasn't going to be. By that time he knew about the Bobby Kennedy conversation. F: Which Bobby Kennedy conversation? C: The Bobby Kennedy conversation, I've told you
  • of Secretary Hickel's assistants a briefer run-down from the more lengthy one. I was told later that Hickel had not read it, and wouldn't because he doesn't like to read things. It's mostly through across the table conversations that he gets his