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  • impressed In the official meetings I wasn't present. I was present later at the Ambassador s--I believe it was Ambassador [Douglas] MacArthur [II] at the time--at his home when he had a private party for the. Prime Minister. The Prime Minister slicing
  • no contact with Johnson whatsoever. M: It was strictly a Connally-- L: Strictly, yes, sir. The 1962 Connally campaign? Now, we had some Johnson people in the organization, but the truth is, it was not a Johnson organization. We didn't take over
  • ; briefings for Senate Foreign Relations Committee; efforts as ambassador; relations with Ayub Khan; role as Deputy Ambassador to Vietnam; team of Bunker and Locke; manpower mobilization; pacification program; political atmosphere at home; changes
  • by the home that General Harkins lived in. pondent saying, "There it is. And that corres- There's where that son of a bitch lives," and waving his clenched fist at him. It was that kind of LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • . But we were looking for signs of hostility Of course, there was the Dallas Morning News of that morning, with a very unfriendly ad. IIYankee. Go Home" and so forth. mostly friendly. We saw signs like, But the crowd at the airport was Kennedy
  • way to do that was to get some company with a plane just to fly them out there and back. He had lined up some outfit, and I honestly couldn't tell you to this day--it was one of the big companies, it was like Boeing, or Lockheed, or Douglas, but one
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ASHMORE -- I -- 20 Douglas, William Douglas, who is the chairman of our board, [and] raised the point. And he [Douglas] has always been a good personal friend of Lyndon's, way back to the early days. So he and I went
  • Mike Mansfield was there, Senator Douglas, Senator Smathers of Florida, as I recall, and a few other senators. the amendment would pass on the Senate floor. defeating it. I was adYised that There was no way of The only question was whether we wanted