Kennedy loyalists sought to dump Johnson

After the assassination, Arthur Schlesinger called a secret meeting of Kennedy loyalists. Richard Goodwin tells that the purpose of that meeting was to discuss "an alternative" to Johnson. That alternative was Robert Kennedy, but the short time span between the assassination and the 1964 Democratic Convention prevented any "dump Johnson" movement from gaining momentum.


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Former Attorney General Nicholas deB Katzenbach tells of a phone call he made to RFK when he heard of JFK's assassination. RFK told him that he had been notified by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and that Hoover displayed "great pleasure' over the news.

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President Kennedy announces that he will send a bill to Congress for an across-the-board reduction in income taxes for 1963.