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Busby -- III -- 10
Department and have a briefing from the undersecretary of state. I want to say
- was in the compound with Nixon there. Nixon got very emotional at some point and
started chewing people out. It was Dick Rubottom, I think, and he chewed Rubottom
out, [and] several other State Department types. Unfortunately, (inaudible) with one of
these typical
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recently--Johnson was a defeated candidate. Everything was wrong. This was typical all
across the country with the congressmen in the House who had played a large part of
World War II affairs or in the New Deal. You know, Johnson always said that the two
- go, and the last time I went he had Abe [Abraham] Sofaer, is it?--that's the
general counsel at the State Department, which is a highly prestigious position. He
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- . I've never had one of those, and I want one."
Now what he was referring to, to clarify this, was a special kind of establishment
thing. When he came here and Roosevelt seized upon him intuitively, and had him put on
the Naval Affairs Committee