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the President suggested that we refer this to the state department and ask them to look
into it. Secretary Rusk was away at the time and so Mr. Katzenbach did the initial review.
When the story broke in the press, the President immediately
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press took it seriously. I think that he probably with his friends at least, with his political
associates, Johnson apparently was taking himself seriously. I think that he probably
learned as a domino player in his very earliest years in Texas how
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drowned them, there was a great deal of material in the press about
bad treatment of the recruits by the services and so forth.
To make a
long story short, we had a letter from a man in San Antonio whose
grandson had been inducted, and he claimed