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just have to manage him. He was the kind of a man who had to be managed. I only know this because Bobby Straus told me that was what he told her. She had said yes, she'd try it, she was sure she could do it. There wasn't anything that walked on two legs she couldn't manage was her boast.

So she came down and she proceeded to manage him. I really think this country owes Miss Robinson, or “Robbie,” as she came to be called, a real debt, because without her Johnson would have been a total flop a great deal earlier. Whatever value there was in the NRA, and there was a great deal of value in it, would have been totally lost. Lots of dreadful things were said about Robbie. There was lots of nasty gossip about Robbie and lots of vituperation, but really and truly she proved to be one of those invaluable people who although she wasn't a person of refinement and high and noble character, had this quality of knowing her duty and doing it. She was ruthless in doing her duty. She would do what she knew to be her duty and she would do it in her own way, by george! She was pretty rough in many ways, but she did stand by and she did do work that I have never seen any human being do. It was just an enormous amount of work, with enormous wisdom and judgment. She actually made about half the decisions that the General was supposed to have made, because frequently he was not