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RFK's secret campaign to become LBJ's Vice President

RFK's secret campaign to become LBJ's Vice President

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Jefferson Morley
May 26, 2017
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By late July, Johnson could no longer risk waiting until the Democratic convention to remove Kennedy from vice presidential consideration. The president called his attorney general on Monday, July 27, and asked him to come to the White House—Tuesday, if he could—to talk over “some other matters.”

Source: Robert Kennedy’s Secret Campaign to Become Lyndon …

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