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  • to Vietnam after the pull-out from Laos and he wanted somebody to go out and buck up [President Ngo DinhJ Diem. President Kennedy told me that he had a terribly tough time persuading Lyndon Johnson to make LBJ Presidential Library http
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  • potential as president; bitterness between Bobby Kennedy and LBJ; Bartlett's relationship with President Johnson and his White House staff; Vietnam War; Robert Kennedy's run for presidency; impressions of Kennedy family role in Johnson's selection of Kennedy
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  • ; Committee for the Preservation of the White House; the White House crèche; highway beautification bill; Mike Mansfield; the death of President Holt of Austalia; traveling from Australia to Vietnam and Rome with LBJ; visiting the Vatican; LBJ’s decision
  • was exhorting this Indian about Vietnam and towering above him, waving a hand at him . He gave that story which he subsequently used . I hadn't heard it before then--in which he with grand gestures would say that, "all he wanted was if Uncle Ho Chi would take
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  • Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays