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  • was in the Pentagon then. Among the things I do remember is getting Abe Fortas and McGeorge Bundy and Vance I guess down to the Dominican Republic to get [Joaquin] Balaguer put in power. But I think, you know, Johnson always thought that Fulbright didn't like
  • that provisional regime, presently there were elections, and [Joaquin] Balaguer won the elections, and the Americans troops came out, whenever they did come out--before the election, I guess. M: Before the election. There were a few, I think, left. B
  • this provisional president and maintain law and order in the country, and allow the campaign to start and get this election going in July. Then the fourth and final phase: [Joaquin] Balaguer won the election. He beat Bosch handily, and then our fourth mission
  • a lack of strength while he was President? M: Just a lack of minding the store, running the affairs of the country well. He didn't run them well. He was a very bad administrator, more of a poet than a politician. In a free election Balaguer, assuming
  • which acted pending elections, which as you know resulted in the election of [JoaquĆ­n] Balaguer. But Bunker did a superb job in a very trying period in advising Godoy, in holding the situation together as the inevitable strains came during the months