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- ; 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
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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
- gave rise to the credibility gap.
I had been seriously considering leaving the postal service before President
Kennedy's assassination, and I continued pursuing various job offers after his death. One
day, for some reason or another--I can't remember
