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  • was able to watch the winter olympics in Japan and then I was able to watch the visit of the President to Peking. The television on that was excellent and having nothing to do except to watch the television I saw the evening programs and the morning
  • of an international,serious thing. We are calling all the bankers in: We have a very bad deal there. Our friend visited with Clifford this morning and I guess he has told you what has happened: D: Yes. P: They demanded a public Presidential statement calling
  • MONETARY CRISIS; CLARK CLIFFORD'S MEETING WITH RFK TODAY; RFK'S DEMAND FOR REAPPRAISAL OF VIETNAM POLICY; DEAN ACHESON'S ADVICE TO LBJ; DALEY SUGGESTS LBJ APPOINT HIS OWN COMMITTEE TO STUDY POLICY; RFK'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDACY; NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
  • to him at all. It was.the principle of the thing, though, that bothered me greatly. Well, we had a special plane that took off at six in the morning from Tape 25 -- 3 Andrewsand arrived here in Genevaat eight o'clock on Saturday evening. I got my
  • the first thing in the morning, and you can then judge it for yourself." So I came in here early, and·r guess called my secretary in and said, 11 Let 1 s quickly retype this and send it to the White House." She'd no sooner started retyping it than Pierre
  • , This was Saturday morning. And, of course, I was absolutely dumbfounded because I hadn't any idea of going so soon, and it was just a week before Thanksgiving. And my family was coming to New York to spend Thanksgiving with us and I was thinking
  • stop the bombing and they shell the cities, or abuse the DMZ. r I • r ! !.. -4­ When I got back to Washington from New York, I w.e nt back to the Soviet Union and pointed out that I did not want to deceive anybody and didn 1 t want them
  • . but it was to I also remembermy father used to keep track of new developments in agriculture and used to go around urging farmers to take up new and better methods. As a banker to whomthe farmers had to come for loans, he had a great deal to do with improving
  • for the first time all the elements of the organization aremovingdownthe same road together. I think also the actionsthathave been taken by the United States during the past year have given new heart to the Vietnamese, in spite of theiViet Congsuccesses. Up
  • . Prior to that you had Prior to that you had been a New York Times State Department reporter. Does that pretty well get tbe last ten or fifteen years? J: It does except my last public service was as a member of the American delegation to the peace
  • on those two points--I think the question of supply of military equipment is a very difficult one indeed and would have been difficult in any measure. But we had at that time embraced rather strongly the new Nasser regime and at least they considered
  • with the Achesons. And I remember at break£ast-- the first morning that we were there--Dean Acheson had a telephone call in the middle of breakfast and went out and then came back to the table. he said to me, "That was Senator Lyndon Johnson." And And he s a i d
  • Germany have a national nuclear weapon. But I believe also the Navy was rather interested in the MLF because it would involve an expansion of the Navy and would provide a new type of naval nuclear weapons system in addition to the Polaris, because
  • that--particularly thought of serving at the UN. that I wasn't interested in the UN Not but I was doubtful if I could afford to live in New York at the United Nations, because it's a very expensive post. Probably, if I had realized how expensive I couldn't have
  • . I started out, I guess you'd have to say, in something called the Chieu Hoi program, which had to do with getting defectors over on the government side. I did a study on that as my first move in this new role that I was playing, and then from
  • officials were waiting any changes effected by the new administration? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
  • World War II convinced me to join a new outfit called the Central Intelligence Group. F: This is a piece of friendly exchange, when were you in Harvard Business School? K: After I got out of Harvard College. [I] started in '42 and finished my degree
  • that the Ambassador knows the New York Times has a story for tomorrow's paper stating that Goldberg's resignation was di scussed wit h the Presid e nt today. Marvin ~ ~AVICE SET . . ... .. ,. . . ~~k; ,. ...,'• MARVIN WATSON ENTERED THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE
  • the President briefed the three candidates and received their support. When the proposition was · put to the Hanoi delegation in Paris, however, they raised other issues. First, they proposed that the new, enlarged meetings be called a "four-power conference
  • had dinner and then to bed. The second most important news of the day was that Lynda heard from Chuck -- her first letter in two weeks -- a short one. from a mission to find a big stack of mail. He said he had returned He had only time to read two