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- to the President with regard to Mansfield's Vietnam opposition. Do
you recall this issue?
J:
Yes, I do. I remember that, and I remember a number of occasions where the President
referred to President Ford. On the Mansfield thing, aside from his personal
- LBJ's opinion of Gerald Ford; Ford's public release of a letter from Mike Mansfield to LBJ expressing opposition to LBJ's decision-making in Vietnam; LBJ's response to criticism of Vietnam decisions; LBJ's determination to win in Vietnam
- because this is a religious country.
At the same time, on several occasions I remember, he'd ask Luci to get the
priest--her friend in Washington--to pray for the boys in Vietnam particularly. This
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- Texas protesters arrested and later invited to the Ranch; Jacobsen's opinion of Martin Luther King, Jr.; clothier Louis Roth's anti-Vietnam stance; Martin Luther King's FBI report.
- such a terrible burden, with really just people
harassing him and wanting to see him and wanting to do this, and he had to give this
person a little time and give that person a little time. And just the tremendous problems
he has, not the Vietnams--of course
- admiration for Dwight Eisenhower; LBJ's interest in space; Jim Webb; Jacobsen's opinion of Eric Goldman; LBJ's failure to get the appreciation or cooperation of people in the arts; the 1965 White House Festival of the Arts; Vietnam in 1965; LBJ's view
- intervention and during the Vietnam escalation in 1965.
J:
As a background, the Foreign Relations Committee in the Senate was always the
depositing ground for dissenters and unpopular senators. That was not a good
appointment. Foreign Relations back
