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would be to discuss the several topics which we were principally talking about or acting
on during that period.
The first would be with reference to foreign affairs. The President during this
period was full of frustrations. He hadn't been able to move
- wanted to go
through the State Department or the Pentagon. The big issue in January of 1968 was
whether we should deliver a fleet of Phantoms and some additional Skyhawks to the
Israelis. This was considered by the Israelis to be, frankly
- ; Larry O’Brien; Krim resigning as Democratic National Committee finance chairman to be involved with the LBJ Presidential Library and School of Public Affairs; being asked to join LBJ’s cabinet and the United Nations; Arthur Goldberg; the LBJ Foundation
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the President before taking the helicopter ride to Camp David. In the Oval Office there
were a few moments we spent while Mac Bundy was briefing the President on some
foreign affairs situation.
In the helicopter, as I recall it, we met Marianne Means
- itself of the tribute to
President Kennedy, which would be late May of 1962. The affair was a tremendous
success. We had Madison Square Garden filled, and before that we had a successful
dinner at the Four Seasons, which was not attended, as I recall
- [of Public Affairs] and the Library. There was no question of solicitation
or support during that period; that came later. But we would go to Austin and look at the
site where the Library was going to be, and there would be a lot of conversations about
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