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Oral history transcript, Samuel Gammon, interview 1 (I), 7/29/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • throw of the dice. I think it was on the first of October. Haile Selassie came for one of his every-year or year-and-a-half visits to Washington to see Kennedy and so forth, and as part of the scenario, he was to be received by LBJ up in the ceremonial
  • LBJ adjusting to presidency; staffing changes after the assassination of JFK; access to LBJ; Henry Kissinger compared to LBJ; LBJ’s meeting with Haile Selassie; Eugene McAuliffe; Gammon’s work as a military attaché under the NSC; Averell Harriman