MILLIONAIRE H. L. HUNT TALKS POLITICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400130012-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 27, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved: For Release 2000/09/14.: CIA-RDP75-00
BY?'VERA GLASER
Chicago Daily News Service
ATLANTIC' CITY One
of the world's richest men is
tel room, watching the Demo-
scratchy rpnted' TV set.
He IS_H. L. Hunt of Dallas,
("$7001000,0010, give or take. "a
Without batting, an eye, he
W suggested we go out 'to dinner'
? -at a cafeteria. We settled
for' a $9.65' dinner (for both,
;'..of us) in his hotel. room
} plus a $2 tip.
~, He talked politics, mostly '
thin dime to the presidential H. L. HUNT
%calnpaign of Lyndon Johnson f Totes his.own luggage.
Francisco last month and ear-'
nors' conference..
ing Boardwalk' hotel, where he '
.had been booked into mini-'-,,
mum-priced Room 910 under
an assumed nam6 He resisted
oag. J
I was, taken ? to Hunt by i
Earle B. Mayfield Jr., a Dallas;'
"Practice restricted to oil, gas',
.received me in a hotel room
named Dwiggins who works'
HUNT'S ' extensive right- Asked why he is in Altantic El Paso, was described as an
wing activitii s have convinced City, Hunt said, "I go to con- old "college mate',', of Presi-.1
some that Goldwater is his' ventions. I went to the Los dent Johnson.
until shortly before election of getting Johnson nominated. hesistated, then said no.
?; day.. I went from there to Chicago Just a, friend`of the family,"'
At one, point. he observed: to try to keep. Henry. Cabot Mayfield said. -When ' he r
"My being for Johnson or Lodge from getting the vice,, phoned 910, we were told to.
Goldwater might cost one of Presidential , nomination." .. 'come up .at once.
them 200,000? to, 300,000 ' Hunt also. appeared at the HUNT. IS soft- spoken,
oved f~ s to
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