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  • The Agriculture Department was very difficult. These funds were generated by Agriculture, by [Harold D.] Cooley who was then chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, and Cooley had a very real interest in these funds because they were generated by agricultural
  • as those two . I think they found it extremely interesting to compare notes, as I'm sure was the case when President Johnson talked to Harold Macmillan, who was also a master of the political crowd in Great Britain . Ba : Yes . Mr . Macmillan's memoirs
  • First acquaintance with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Jean Monnet; DeGaulle; Common Market; Wilson; MacMillan; MLF Force; Skybolt; Atlantic Naval Force; Rhodesian independence; Great British trade policy; assistance of Great Britain with VN settlement; Tonkin
  • mean? B: Yes. I've tried for days. or something like that. It's like his name was Maxmillan [Harold Macmillan] We stopped off there for a day and the staff stayed at Brighton and the President stayed out at the Prime Minister's residence
  • ] De Gaulle, and [Harold] Macmillan; then in Italy--I was there when the Expeditionary Force was there; then in Switzerland, Geneva; then in Spain, Madrid; then for eight months in the Balkan Commission of the United Nations in Greece
  • politics, but it's damaging the country, and in the development of this Tom O'Connor field for a little while, not very long." Harold Ickes had control of the oil industry, and we had our plans to develop a field. We sent them to Washington. They were
  • American we had. He also knew the leaders. F: He wasn't talking about names--he was talking about people? H: I'm talking about them personally. With Churchill, with Eden, with Macmillan, with De Gaulle, with Adenauer, hell, he could pick up the phone
  • . One thing Prime Minister MacMillan of England had said to Jack about President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, that Eisenhower never let Nixon on the place, impressed Jack a lot . Every time there was a state � � � � LBJ Presidential Library
  • force, so Ambassador Merchant was brought in to head up the Smilth-Lee team and go out for an extensive round of discussions with the Europeans . The curve rises until the summer of '63 when President Kennedy visited Europe and was told by MacMillan
  • in but Michael Pallister, who was the foreign office chap who had been assigned as sort of the special assistant, almost a sort of a Henry Kissinger, to Wilson (he actually had the same position under MacMillan), apparently brushed Brown aside and got