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Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ; overestimating the likelihood of LBJ being chosen as a presidential nominee in 1960; Senator Hubert Humphrey saying that he did not want to be vice president; opinions of the Kennedy/Johnson ticket in 1960; conflict among the Kennedys over LBJ's nomination
  • : At the convention I know a number of stories went around, for example, that the offering of the vice presidency to Johnson was just a ploy that the Kennedy camp never dreamed he would accept. And also that the offer was made over Robert Kennedy's objections. Were