“Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.”
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Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.
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Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?
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But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.
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The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot.
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