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  • INTERVIEWEE: DATE: Robert Fleming, Deputy Press Secretary for LBJ November 8, 1979 PLACE: Washington, D.C. SUBJECT: Fleming's Knowledge of Daily Summaries of the Network \ Television Coverage: During the Period of TET, 1968 INTERVIEWER: David Culbert
  • Oral history transcript, Robert Fleming, interview S-I, 11/8/1979, by David Culbert
  • would. He was very religious. Sometimes--oh, he did many interesting things. I remember one time we spent the night with them up at Camp David, and the next morning when my wife and I went over to the main house, he had the Attorney General
  • real recommen­ dation of the Administration was really when President Eisenhower told Presidc:nt Kennedy he felt the first action we would have to take would be in that area -- Laos, and Viet-Nam -- and that he would have taken it ex.ct!pt th,":lt he
  • /show/loh/oh LBJ Retrospective -- 24 sought President Eisenhower's advice all the time. He kept him informed; he had him briefed constantly by the top people. So when he talked to Eisenhower, Eisenhower would know where he was coming from, would
  • to Hawaii; religion at Yale; Von Holt’s knowledge of Hawaiian; Bunker family history; Ellsworth Bunker’s personality; Von Holt’s involvement with the University and Pacific Clubs; military service; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton; VonHolt family ranches
  • to Hawaii; religion at Yale; Von Holt’s knowledge of Hawaiian; Bunker family history; Ellsworth Bunker’s personality; Von Holt’s involvement with the University and Pacific Clubs; military service; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton; VonHolt family ranches
  • to Hawaii; religion at Yale; Von Holt’s knowledge of Hawaiian; Bunker family history; Ellsworth Bunker’s personality; Von Holt’s involvement with the University and Pacific Clubs; military service; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton; VonHolt family ranches
  • to Hawaii; religion at Yale; Von Holt’s knowledge of Hawaiian; Bunker family history; Ellsworth Bunker’s personality; Von Holt’s involvement with the University and Pacific Clubs; military service; Dwight Eisenhower; George Patton; VonHolt family ranches
  • are going to stay with it, and why we're going to stay with it. And he formulates it his way, which is at least a distance from where he has been; he had been saying there's no change in policy. And then he gets needled by Eisenhower's people. He doesn't
  • office, only two presidents who have survived the two full terms that they are now limited to by the Constitution, and walked out of that office with-- LC: Grace? DC: With grace, right. And those two were Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. LC
  • anything else. I got it from the Nevi York Ti!'l~.5-. of yours this morning. I've never seen But that's the way Eisenhower took Part Three and Russell just ran him out of the White House balcony, because said, they slip nr never heard of it, didn't
  • never a question of doing what's right. It's a question of knowing what's right. Those first few days Vietnam was on top of the agenda, before the visiting heads of state got home from the funeral. In the outer office of the EOB I saw Eisenhower sitting