Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson says, he knew nothing of the activities of Bobby Baker. Billie Sol Estes or Mr. Jenkins, he must be extremely naive. If people whom he has known well over many years can hoodwink him this easily, think how our enemies may deceive him. If, on the other hand, he was aware of these things but did nothing about them, it can only be concluded that he condoned the actions of these...
Last week Republicans were ready to put on national TV a 30-minute film dramatizing the "immorality issue." It was replete with stripteasing babes, wild Twisters, Negro riots, long shots and closeups of Bobby Baker and Billie Sol Estes-interlaced with shots of a black Lincoln Continental limousine careening madly along country roads, with beer cans being tossed out of the driver's window. The supposed identity of the driver? His initials might rhyme with...
...thousand $100a-plate diners: "To the temporary President, running a country means twisting arms and banging heads together. It means buying and bludgeoning voters. It means getting a TV monopoly in his home state and building a private fortune. It means surrounding himself with companions like Bobby Baker, Billie Sol Estes, Matt McCloskey . . ." At that point, Barry paused; the audience, fully expecting to hear the name of Walter Jenkins, shouted, "And? And? And?" But Barry finished his sentence, ". . . and other interesting...
Despite his aversion to the limelight, Jenkins was exposed to its glare on two notable occasions before last week. After the Billie Sol Estes scandal broke in 1962, it was learned that Jenkins, on behalf of then Vice President Johnson, had spoken to the Agriculture Department about Estes during the previous year. Jenkins requested information about any decisions involving Estes' cotton-acreage allotments, which were then being scrutinized for irregularities. But his involvement was at most peripheral, and no evidence was ever presented to prove that Jenkins or his boss ever tried to pressure the department in the Estes...
...attacks on Yarborough, Bush recalls rumors that the Senator got $50,000 in a brown paper bag from Billie Sol Estes during the 1960 presidential campaign. Yarborough denies the charge, although he has admitted getting some $7,000 in campaign contributions from Estes over a three-year period, long before Estes' shenanigans came to light. But Bush tells his audiences: "The question is not whether Yarborough got $50,000 or $5,000 or whatever he has admitted getting from Estes, but do you want a man in the U.S. Senate who was involved with Billie Sol Estes...