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  • on his mind. The poverty program, the demands for the urban programs, but I think the position that he took--and I don't recall the conversation in detail--but I believe that it was at this occasion that the point I made was that the Space Agency had
  • him. G: Would he generally prefer to do these things in person rather than over the telephone? R: My work with him, generally speaking, was on a personal basis rather than over the phone, but I think that was because I made an effort
  • in the fall of 147, and I learned to know him slightly in 1948 when he was elected to the Senate from Texas. My first real contact with him was after he had been nominated, we had some conversations with him about his forthcoming campaign as I remember. I
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 9 1,,1': I don't recall that we had any specific conversation about that. F: Did he discuss
  • in private meetings, either in bipartisan meetings or by telephone. F: One of the early burdens that both President Eisenhower and Senator Johnson had to face was the problem of Senator Joseph McCarthy. H: Yes. F: Both were criticized for not being
  • thing I find curious and I've had to make this correction speaking to people around the world as a matter of fact, when we get into conversations about the Presidents of the United States. That there is an enormously strong myth that President Kennedy
  • Arms Control Disarmament Agency--had frequent occasions to deal with Mr. Spurgeon Keeney. M: Do any of these sort of stand out in your mind? Were you there, or were these primarily through telephone conversations? D: Mostly, I think it was Mr
  • , we were in a recess and Mr. Rayburn was the only one there from the House and Mr. Truman was over there from the Senate--he was Vice President--and the telephone rang and Mr. Rayburn was sitting at the desk like this, answered it, says, "It's for you
  • it was? W: There wasn't much to talk about, because you had to plow new furrows because there hadn't been any cultivation to speak of to that point. Mr. Johnson's primary conversation had to do with the fact that if I were going to be so closely associated
  • you remember any conversations with Johnson on this? I think you and he generally voted together. G: That's right. I talked to Johnson and I talked to Knowland to see if we couldn't divide the so-called foreign aid bill into three. One would
  • I started doing in task force number one, because I knew the congressional committees would ask about it, was to seek a place to put the Secretary. In November 1963 the FAA occupied the building in which we are holding this conversation, FOB lOA
  • upset with him when he did that. As I have heard the conversation retold, Johnson just said, "Well, he's the best man qualified for it." So he selected Symington. If there were any other reasons for that other than that statement, I don't know vlhat