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  • Subject > Vietnam (remove)
  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-05-01 (remove)

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  • , the very least he could say was that the United States liked it better where there were free political parties and a free parliament. It seems to me I had something else to say too, so I don't think I made myself very popular on the government side. When
  • Senator Robert Kennedy’s press secretary, 1966; Kennedy’s 1967 trip to Paris and rumor of a 'peace feeler'; animosity between LBJ and Kennedy; Mankiewicz urging Kennedy to become a presidential candidate in 1968(?)
  • to cut this Gordian knot. And I must say that in those days, he received practically no recognition for his effort. The pro-civil rights press in the large northern and eastern cities viewed Lyndon Johnson as a sentinel of the status quo for the old