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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • of his courage, of his tenacity, of his leadership. G: Who was in on the meeting, do you recall? C: Well, there were about eight or ten senators and four or five staff. Others who were there included [Jacob] Javits and I believe [Philip] Hart, and I
  • ] the kind of questions he ra.ised it was perfectly clear to me that this man Itlas not the Philip Geyelin model. the guy who can't understand anything that happens outside of the three-mile limit. This comes back again then to the earlier point. I don't
  • interesting. [Philip] Habib, I think, had been picked mainly by Rusk, and I guess Vance had known Habib, but I'm not sure of that. lot of experience in Vietnam. But Phil had a He had been political officer in Saigon, and had dealt with the problem
  • Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the table”; portraying news
  • Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
  • by way of any private decision of what he would do in the future . M: And you need to deal with what I think one of the better accounts of the whole affair, the one by Philip Geyelin of the Wall Street Journal /Lyndon B . Johnson and the World , 1966
  • along because the State Democratic Chairman personally wanted a Presidential appointment . And they wanted to use the fact that the Administration wanted me as a leverage to get something for him . heard from Senator (Philip A .) Hart's (D-Michigan