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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Johnson … Johnson describes her work with Edward Kennedy on civil … about yourself, how you came to work for Senator Kennedy. Johnson My background is as a civil rights lawyer. I went to … Olatunde Johnson Oral History …
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| George W. Bush Project… Johnson … Johnson discusses Bush’s personality and character; his early … February 11, 2014 Riley This is the Clay Johnson interview, as part of the George W. Bush Oral History … qualities. Another part of this is—I remember reading Paul Johnson’s book on intellectuals, pointy-headed intellectuals. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… at the Justice Department and speaks of working in the Johnson administration. He also discusses the relationship between Johnson and Robert Kennedy, as well as the Warren Commission … effort, a chore. And Jack just didn’t like it. What Lyndon Johnson loved to do, Jack hated. Knott Johnson, meaning …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… by discussing his work on Medicare under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. There is extensive discussion of … Medicare fight going? Heininger Wow. Fine Of course Lyndon Johnson made a commitment to carry on that fight for Kennedy, … getting it started. At that point, of course, Lyndon Johnson had named Wilbur Cohen to head the group, and …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Joseph Califano speaks of the surtax issue during the Johnson administration. There is extensive discussion of … in the 1960s, when I was working for President [Lyndon B.] Johnson. Heininger What was your relationship with the … "No. Why don't you get in touch with--" I guess it was Johnson's scheduler. Califano Jim Jones or Marvin Watson or …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kennedy’s first Senate campaign in 1962, as well as Lyndon Johnson’s relationship with the Kennedys. Seigenthaler gives … was owned by a Texan and we were supporting Lyndon [Johnson], Sullivan Evans reporting. They had two reporters … delegations, and then to move to try to integrate the Johnson campaign with the Kennedy campaign. During that …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… de Valera was Prime Minister in 1964 but President[Lyndon] Johnson organized a special event in America so that the … was [ laughs ].It was the kind of maneuvering that Lyndon Johnson was capable of in a Presidential election year. The … campaign.Wins the state by 760,000 votes or so, but Lyndon Johnson wins it by two million, and Johnson never let anybody …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… There was a lot of concern about President [Lyndon Baines] Johnson, about how liberal he was going to be, and whether he … it was not going anywhere. In January of 1964, President Johnson was persuaded to call the unions and the voluntary … of the day. I mentioned that there was a question about Johnson's loyalty to liberal causes. I don't know whether you …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… the committee staff in 1956 when fellow Texan Lyndon Johnson was Majority Leader, was nominated and confirmed as … caused problems for him with President [Lyndon Baines] Johnson. Could you tell us a little bit about Mike … position on the war and having to deal with Lyndon Johnson? Ferris: Mansfield was one of the signatories of the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… your book. I’m curious about your attitude toward Lyndon Johnson. I know there was a lot of skepticism about Johnson as a United States Senator. And when he was put on … working for ADA, I got to know Harry McPherson, who was Johnson’s chief Senate aide at the time and later became …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… magazines want the graphics. You know, [Lyndon Baines] Johnson belched into [Everett] Dirksen’s face and so on. They … for advice or consent. A good number of Vice President Johnson’s people were there, and Johnson himself was there. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… think Carter was someone who was forced into it; [Lyndon] Johnson was someone who seized upon it. Kennedy—that is, John … rare in our history, actually quite rare. And Kennedy and Johnson were two of them—Johnson much more than Kennedy. Young You’re talking about …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… McCarthy was in, because as majority leader Lyndon Johnson made this deal where he put every young Senator on … Bobby Kennedy had a terrible relationship with Lyndon Johnson. Did you pick up any of this tension, and do you … sort of thing he’d probably like to stay out of. He was Johnson’s Vice President—you have to get along with …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… administration were still in government when Lyndon Johnson was President of the United States. Even someone who … Morrissey is nothing to get excited about anyway. Lyndon Johnson is now the President of the United States. And Lyndon … don’t want to go crazy here. We don’t get involved between Johnsons and Kennedys and so on.” So Teddy stuck with this …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Medicare. I worked like hell to get it through. [Lyndon] Johnson’s election and the [Barry] Goldwater debacle and the … in the cabinet. I worked with Ted on it. He went west when Johnson took us all out to the signing, which occurred at the …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… her it was a fabulous exposure. She sat next to Lady Bird [Johnson]. These things would happen; they weren’t adrenaline … guy. They were corpsmen from Walter Reed. [Lyndon B.] Johnson had detailed them. Their specialty was spinal injury. … family was visiting, [William J.] Vanden Heuvel came up, Johnson came. We were all there that night. Knott You were …
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| Bill Clinton Project… we recognized. Let's just use Chicago as the example. John Johnson, the founder and owner of Johnson Publishing Company, was from Arkansas City, Arkansas. … school. So his mother moved the family to Chicago. John Johnson is a multimillionaire, and most people just don't …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Humphrey and [Stuart] Symington and— Knott And [Lyndon] Johnson was even— Taymor And Johnson was a big one. Knott Sure, sure. Taymor Oh, I’ll … husband came out and he said, Jack Kennedy picked Lyndon Johnson for Vice President. I said, Oh, no. Oh, no. You know, …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… real education legislation came in under LBJ [Lyndon B. Johnson] in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty. That’s when … the House where more negotiating takes place. So with Johnson there was a lot of federal legislation. After him, … the money for anything. From the first ESEA in 1965 under Johnson, up until Goals 2000, there had been a lot of back …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of the United States, quite frankly, with Lyndon [Johnson] running against him. For us it was a pretty—I was in … in and did the withdrawal of the nomination. And of course Johnson was tickled shit at the whole event because he went … about Teddy’s future, although he liked Teddy. Knott Johnson liked Teddy? Healy He liked Teddy a hell of a lot …