Word: johnson
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These and other revealing reflections came through the mail just a few days ago to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library. The highly visible but publicly noncommunicative Jackie was interviewed in 1974 by Professor Joe B. Frantz of the University of Texas at Austin for the L.B.J. Library's oral history project. The transcripts were typed and duly sent off to Mrs. Onassis for her review and approval. The months went by. Then, without any fanfare, the edited manuscript showed up in Texas, the first of Jackie's tapes to be released...
...another side of the story. "One thing Prime Minister Macmillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon-that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place-impressed Jack a lot. Every time there was a state dinner, he wanted the Vice President and Mrs. Johnson to come too ... Once we asked [Luci and Lynda] to a state dinner on their own while their parents were away ... You know, young people at that time in their lives should be included in interesting things...
...Kennedy ever talked about dropping Johnson from the 1964 ticket? "No, never," answered Jackie. She suggested that such stories annoyed her husband. "I don't think he had any intention of dropping Vice President Johnson...
...said that John Connally wanted to show that he was independent and could run on his own and was making friends with a lot of-I think he might have said 'Republican fat cats'-and he wanted to show that he didn't need Lyndon Johnson...
...tragedy. "Now that I look back on it I think I should have gotten out the next-I didn't have any place to go ... It's funny what you do in a state of shock. I remember going over to the Oval Office to ask [Johnson] to name the space center in Florida Cape Kennedy. Now that I think back on it that was so wrong, and if I'd known [Cape Canaveral] was the name from the time of Columbus, it would be the last thing that Jack would have wanted...