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  • . Fulbright George A. Smathers Everett M. Dirksen Thomas H.- Kuchel Bourke B. Hickenlooper Leverett Saltonstall Congressman Hale Boggs Congressman Carl Vinson Congressman Thomas E. Morgan Congressman Leslie C. Arends Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton {Invited
  • MR. PRESIDENT: Herewith two supplementary items for today's agenda which, I am told by State, Secretary Rusk will raise with you. l. Tactics U. S. Consular Convention Secretary Rusk may propose that Nick Katzenbach call on Senator Dirksen
  • with this sale any time you --------· , -2approve. 5. Nick'-s earlier consultations with twelve members of the House and six members of the Senate -- including Dirksen and Ford -­ found only Findley opposed to the sale. (Katzenbach' s report is at Tab 2
  • . 1967 6:30 p. m. MR. PRESIDENT: Bob Anderson reported to me the results of his first three discussiollB on the Hill concerning food aid for the UAR. 1. Senator Dirksen said he would do what he could to help us. Hie Judgment la that food ald for the UAR
  • continued advice and counsel just as if they were in 100% agreement. She expressed her gratitude and said she would continue on that basis. 2. Anderson has also talked to Senator Dirksen, and Dirksen says that he has already issued one statement through
  • Senators Cooper and Aiken, the Speaker, Mr. Boggs and Mr. Widnall. He had a nice -- but non­ committal - - time with Dirksen. The only clearly negative signal he got was from Symington who said he simply couldn 1t vote for anything which cost money
  • recommendations, with~ choice from each list starting from the top. Senate Democrats: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Senator Mansfield (if Senator Dirksen is asked, although we expect Senator Mansfield will decline). Senator Sparkman Senator Lausche Senator Inouye Senator
  • ·•• tlm-e. called to suggest the following: You may wish to have in General Eisenhower and Senator Dirksen to diac\l•• tile problem o! aid 1-eglalation. The opposition te your Vietnam policy ta. ill MacArthur'• view. your. principal obsta.c le to gettia
  • for the consultations. But they had many questions on arms sales policy generally. Bill Macomber saw Senator Dirksen this morning, and he's on board. We've all been over this one a number of times, and it's the best package we can come up with. Consultations on the Hill
  • to the staffs of Senator Hickenlooper, Senator Dirksen, Majority Leader Mansfield, and Chairman Morgan. Carl Marcy and members of the staffs of the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee and the House Committee on Science and Aeronautics were also
  • myself talked to: Senator Mansfield: Unqualified approval. Senator Dirksen: -- Strong approval. Speaker McCormack: Unqualified approval. Said he thought even last January that we might need to be more forthcoming. Mr •. Halleck: Reserved his position
  • out with all key Senatars, who might be interested, such a .s Mansfield, Fulbright, Hickenlooper, Dirksen, et al. I have already talked with Senator Aike-n and apologized handsomely for misleading_the President as to our ability to tra-n:s late
  • cleared by the withdrawal of Abe's name. He said: He understands that Mike Man•fleld ls maklng a nose count on the NPT among the Democrats ln the Senate: He wondered if you might not ask Dirksen to make a nose count among the Republicans. Sec. Rusk feels
  • -Nam Most of the statements and editorials that raise the "candor" issue are vague, generalized and lacking in specifics. Ye sterday 1 s statement by Senator Dirksen is typical. He said the Administration had been neither "candid" nor "consistently
  • , feed people, stop proliferation, etc. As I reported on the telephone, I enlisted Russ Wiggins and Max Frankel in dealing with the East•\Vest passage in Senator Dirksen's speech. Francis Bator will pick up this account and push it hard. jerry O'Leary
  • , Hickenlooper would not expect to be designated as Fulbright's opposite number. (He did not discuss selecting Dirksen as MansHe then noted that Cooper is field's opposite number.) 'the only Republican in the Senate who has· served as ambassador and has had