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INTERVIEWEE:
BROMLEY SMITH
INTERVIEWER:
PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN
PLACE:
Mr. Smith's office, Department of State, Washington, D. C.
Tape 1 of 1
M:
Let's get your identification on the beginning of this tape. You're Bromley Smith, and
your official designation
- Biographical information; NSC; JFK’s Administration; briefing LBJ while VP; space program; LBJ’s relationship with JFK; LBJ and foreign affairs; organization of NSC operations; Senior Interdepartmental Group; Tuesday luncheons; McGeorge Bundy; role
- interpose some questions as it seems judicious.
U:
All right. The question of Indian policy was one I found one of the most frustrating issues
of my Department. I made the rather foolish statement the day President Kennedy
announced my appointment--he
- with the Defense Department.
There could have been, I thought,
some prohibitions in the sense of making public what is in essence
private correspondence.
Mc: Did the President okay it?
M:
Oh yes, the President would always have to okay this.
He would
- the responsibility of carrying it through, yes.
r.,,:
And you worked with the White House staff on thi s, or \'that?
P:
Well, ,yes, I worked with the White House staff, with primarily the
people in the Department of Agriculture, but to whatever degree I
needed