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- bit; this affair
in 1965 and what with everything else going on. What I would like to do is, there are
really three or four topics I'd like to cover today. One would be this Dominican invasion,
and as much as we can focus on what Johnson was doing
- of international affairs both in the United States and outside the United
States. His beat had never been the State Department nor the embassies, either U.S.
embassies abroad or American embassies at home, and his acquaintanceship in serious
terms--how many foreign
- LBJ's knowledge of, and experience with, foreign affairs; LBJ's decision-making process; LBJ's vice presidential trip to Berlin; Walt Rostow and Bundy supporting LBJ as vice president; how Bundy was able to meet influential people through LBJ; LBJ's
- was receiving sort of congressional opinion on these tiresome people
in Panama and weighing it more heavily than either the people in the State Department or
the people on his White House staff would have tended to do.
M:
Was he more inclined to listen
- is a
harder man.
D:
The point I was going to make is, I think there is a distinction--the point you're raising
about Johnson: Trial and error; ad hoc--see, I think in domestic affairs there was a
clearer vision of where he wanted to go.
B:
He had a much
- Robert Dallek's work on LBJ biographies; LBJ's personality; comparing JFK's and LBJ's knowledge of foreign affairs; LBJ's relationships with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and JFK during his vice presidency
- George Ball and quite a lot of
implicit reservation from places like the Intelligence Division of the Department of State,
and one or two of my younger staff--James Thomson--and caution at least in some parts
of the Pentagon, and a willingness
