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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS DILLON INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN M: Letl s begin by identifying you sir. More on LBJ
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  • Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003
  • Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • C. Douglas Dillon
  • address? Voice: Yes, sir. G: Dig it up, will you? He might be a big help to you. F: Yes, I'd be very interested. Johnson, of course, in this period became the Senate majority leader. Did that make any great difference in the operation of the Senate
  • primarily? Me: Yes. Mu: Once the assassination of President Kennedy occurred and Mr. Johnson was suddenly President, how quickly did he contact you? Me: He contacted me at home the next morning. President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday around 1
  • Johnson before you came into the White House? H: No, sir, I didn't run into him until I came down to Washington with President Eisenhower, which would have been in January of 1953. F: Right. How soon did you become aware of him? Do you have any clear
  • since what date, G: About the first of July, I don't recall, 1966. but at any rate, sir? Maybe it was the first of August. the middle of 1966. M: And you had previously been with the Agency since what time? G: 1961. In 1961 I was appointed
  • It caused me a little trouble, but not that I went home and told them why--that I'd rather have them have • the wheat and eat it up and have it pass on into infinity than I would have them save the gold and use it to buy machine tools or something. M
  • have troubles enough at home and why go outside and worry about them. I think it's a result of a failure to recognize that we can't insulate ourselves from the rest of the world. F: We can't. With your work in the development program, and with your