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  • it a point whenever there was interesting matter in my bailiwick that I thought would interest the Vice President, I sent him a copy of my memos, or would send them down to Walter Jenkins. Busby wasn't with him then of course. I sort of tried to keep him
  • the Walter Jenkins thing happened we expected them to try to get other scandal s--we didn't know what they were, but we felt like the other shoe would drop. We knew that the other side was getting increasingly desperate, and when an opponent is desperate
  • on December 18, if I remember correctly. President N a s s e r told me and then later said publicly, that he was aiding the Congo rebels at a time when we were lifting our people out of there, causing great, great consternation here in the U n i t e d
  • on the Arts; Bill Fulbright; UAR ambassadorship; incident in Egypt; Dr. Ramsey Stino; US-Egypt relationship; US aid to Egypt; Congo; Greek coup; Yemen crisis; Arab-Israeli War; Tri-Partite Declaration; Johnson administration as pro-Israel; opening of Abu
  • for International Development, which is a part of the State Department. So I was observing the MACV thing from quite another angle, really, and was not ever anything important at all in the military aspects of MACV. G: What was AID doing in Vietnam in those days
  • McGarr, Charles Timmes and Paul Harkins as commanders of Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) and later Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV); Jacobson's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam; the 1963 coup in Vietnam
  • predominant color if we look a little longer. We, I think, went too far in our reaction to the India-Pakistan war in cutting off economic and political aid to them. I think that this was the result of enormous concern in the Congress and in the public
  • on the Arts; Bill Fulbright; UAR ambassadorship; incident in Egypt; Dr. Ramsey Stino; US-Egypt relationship; US aid to Egypt; Congo; Greek coup; Yemen crisis; Arab-Israeli War; Tri-Partite Declaration; Johnson administration as pro-Israel; opening of Abu
  • very strong statements about Vietnam in 1954. The whole military advisory effort was carried out under the Eisenhower Administration, and the very extensive aid program began under Eisenhower. So, I would say that from that time on, from Geneva
  • employees working in the Embassy, for instance, your AID or your intelligence area or anything else. A: In Sofia? P: Well, yes. A: Or Copenhagen? P: Either one, but I was thinking--did this corne to bear in this particular situation
  • . M: But there has been a lot of comment by ex-aides. For example, I heard Bill Moyers on television saying that dissent, as he put it, was widespread in the government by some certain date. Does this get expressed? F: You mean dissent on Vietnam
  • was then president of NBC and who later became a Johnson aide--he was the man to whom the displeasure was made evident, and he never to this day has mentioned it to me. This is where I think the President sometimes mi sea lcul atedo M: Do you think the President