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  • of fact at the airport--Governor Romney. Because apparently one of my staff, who was in charge of the airport arrangements and lining the people up to meet the President as he came off the plane, had naturally, since he was a good staff man, put me
  • . You see, Cyrus had gone, for the President, out to Detroit to try to pull the [Governor George] Romney-Mayor [Jerome] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • of people. But in September when--and President Johnson was also involved in the program by that time in the sense that McNamara or somebody had described it to Senator Russell and Mr. Vinson. included George Mahon. I don't know who else. Ordinarily
  • of that meeting the issue of whether or not to cormnit troops? Or, perhaps I should phrase that, I realize the request would have to come from Governor Romney. Was the question of whether or not Romney was going to ask for troops the point of contention
  • the first night. I think it was the first or second night when the question was whether the federal troops should be brought in. The White House was in a real bind on this for various reasons. Of course Romney was governor, and he had requested