Professional Documents
Culture Documents
with
Representative John E. Fogarty
A p r i l U , 1965
Washington, DOC.
by Charles T. Morrissay
for the John F. Kennedy Library
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REP. JXIGARTP: No, I never met John Kennedy before January, 1947,
when he first arrived here i n Washington, on
the scener
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We saw quite a b i t of
i n the offices.
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level.
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He used t o t a l k t o me
time,
times.
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But t h e r e j u s t
It was a very
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he struck you?
informal,
MORRISSEP:
Do p u have any other recollections o f any conversations on these trips up t o Providence, when you and
he went together?
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time
Ben,
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a not be SQUCUJ~
f o r Kennedy i n the
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family.
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i n world policy.
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