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  • http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Busby -- III -- 10 Department and have a briefing from the undersecretary of state. I want to say
  • was in the compound with Nixon there. Nixon got very emotional at some point and started chewing people out. It was Dick Rubottom, I think, and he chewed Rubottom out, [and] several other State Department types. Unfortunately, (inaudible) with one of these typical
  • recently--Johnson was a defeated candidate. Everything was wrong. This was typical all across the country with the congressmen in the House who had played a large part of World War II affairs or in the New Deal. You know, Johnson always said that the two
  • go, and the last time I went he had Abe [Abraham] Sofaer, is it?--that's the general counsel at the State Department, which is a highly prestigious position. He 5 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More
  • . I've never had one of those, and I want one." Now what he was referring to, to clarify this, was a special kind of establishment thing. When he came here and Roosevelt seized upon him intuitively, and had him put on the Naval Affairs Committee