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  • was interested in going to the Soviet Union and was probing that, [Robert] McNamara made sort of a surprise visit to the Kremlin and met with Kosygin at 15 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org -- More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] 5 And the Russians--when Kosygin came
  • with people like Kosygin, instead of the third echelon. It was with all of the chiefs of state, all the highest rank- ing who happen to be in residence at that time. 11: I: Were you carrying any message for Mr. Johnson? No, no message. We were, however
  • quiet. Then about that time the Soviets went into Czechoslovakia. And just as my comment about East Germany, that was pretty close to home. And it ahppened that Kosygin was in Sweden on an official visit, and the troops were in there the day after he
  • going. I know there And of course I know, as everybody does, about the Kosygin business and the Wilson business in London, which I thought fitted the whole pattern of this thing. Actually, Baggs and Ashmore had much the same kind of information as I
  • this and their counsel is always good. I personally worked very closely with the press office of the White House. F: You had an advantage there. S: Yes, sir. F: Did you get involved in the Kosygin visit? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
  • Kosygin or it could be a new policy strategy in Vietnam or anything like this that was not of a public nature, if something like that came up and he had committed an event somewhere else, he would be forced to cancel the event. And it was his feeling
  • , when Uncle Dudley was talking to me in the terminology like Brezh~ev, Kosygin, Dubcek--frank--and I told him that, he said, "Where is the precedent for rerunning a primary? There is none." When I LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • that it never could live up to its expectations. They always kind of fell then, and then there was a hollow feeling and people felt they had been deceived. ~now--suddenly the meeting with Kosygin. Glassboro, you And then as I say, around the \'.'orld
  • exactly when you're here and when you're not." I would look at him, and he said, "Just nothing goes right [when you're not here]." I remember the time he went to Glassboro, when he had that meeting with Kosygin and.he got sick. sick. Now I didn't know
  • . That, of course, played a part later on, as you know, when Wilson tried to be an intermediary in something that I remember was very fouled up. I think it was something while Kosygin was in the Far East. That comes later in the story. But there was a whole business