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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-12-10 (remove)
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  • to establish some kind of a position on the mainland. And in the election of 1952, this was an election issue. As I remember it, Mr. Dulles' phrase was "unleash Chiang Kai-shek." As it turned out, the moment Mr. Dulles became Secretary of State, he
  • people for you, but it's up to you to scout around." So I asked everybody else's secretary if they had friends. And what actually happened was I got Mrs. [Mary Kay] Topkins because Ruth McCauley, who's Harry McPherson's secretary, worked at Defense
  • , and they called me and asked if I would appear, if I would join this group, and I said, sure I would. And we had one meeting in Washington at Kay Halle's home; it was an all women's group, thirty-five women; some had come from very distant points in the country