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  • played in the United States since the recognition of Franco. J: Yes. F: There was a problem of overcoming his reluctance to play. J: Did you talk to him personally on this? F: Oh yes indeed! J: How did you break down his resistance? F: It's
  • crossed the Pacific in very gentle laps. First of all, he flew out from Boston to San Francisco, stayed a day or two, recovered those three hours, then went on to Honolulu where Mike Dunn and I joined him. He spent a couple of days there, two or three
  • with Franco. The subject of this meeting was never revealed. direction, or was that on your own? Was that at Presidential LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • ; Diem administration; JFK assassination; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; comparison of LBJ and JFK regarding information; Chinese nuclear bomb; supersonic transport; conference with Franco in Spain; removal of Khrushchev; retirement of McCone; William F. Raborn
  • see what they're up to. They want me to come flying in there, and dime to a dollar they'd have Franco out there to meet me." The reason that the brother of Henry Cabot Lodge--what was his name? John Lodge--and other people at the State Department
  • . It was. It was at a time when the Franco-American relationships were at a low ebb and it was an important position. But Sargent felt that he had given the commitment, made the plans, and therefore wanted to go ahead. F: Was there any feeling that Mr. Johnson was trying
  • about it, rather than talk to Lyndon, because I didn't want him turning it down directly. Lady Bird told me how sorry she was, but in the situation--Franco's Spain--she wasn't able to do anything for Jacqueline Cochran. As I remember it, Mary Rather told
  • and with de Gaulle's government really affect the basic element of Franco-American friendship which as far as I can s e e still remains. M: What about specific initiatives, such as--well, the big one of the time was the multilateral force? B: Well, I didn't