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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Subject > Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961 (remove)
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  • having a conversation with him was at a reception at which we were both present. Our paths just happened to cross, and we fell into a few minutes of talk. I found that it was very easy to talk to Mr. Johnson. I don't think we settled any earthshaking
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh So we had that type of conversation. He I said, "I think the first thing we have to do is to decide what the potential market is, then to decide how much capital we need to produce
  • the Eisenhower Administration when the Republicans had charge of the Congress during the 83rd, I believe. I don't recall my first personal contact with the PreSident, that is, person to person conversations with him, unless it was when he was going into North
  • sometimes say things about President Lincoln that wouldn't normally be told by - somebody to President Johnson . G: I see . B: He had to get it out of a book . G: You mean in a speech, or just in informal conversation? B: In an informal conversation
  • or twice a year, I got to know him, and through him I felt like I knew Lyndon Johnson. Actually, I couldn't tell you to save my neck--I don't remember the first time that I met Lyndon Johnson. B: What were the conversations with Mr. Rayburn like? Did
  • . " At that point he picked up the phone and called Nixon himself. don't know what he said, but I can imagine what he said. reconstructed the conversation to go something like this: I I've always "Dick, I've got as stupid a bunch of Treasury and economic advisers
  • because it was generally conceded that he was taping all the conversations. I think that when he became chair- man, on the part of the liberals around the committee it was welcomed, because we had been under Graham Barden, who was so dictatorial. Usua