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  • as a group and we made decisions as a delegation. So, while I did specialize in these questions of colonial issues, African issues, and trusteeship, nevertheless, I was involved in the other issues, particularly at the time of the Middle East crisis
  • l had not covered the Hill in the days when he was majority leader, although obviously everybody in town knew him. M: You were. overseas, l suppose, most of the time. A: Much of the ti;ne, I. was. terribly well. I was in and out, but I never
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Tape II 2 (Nov. 13, 1968, Nov. 14, 1968) A: I felt this was one of those times when it did make a difference who was the American chief representative in this mission--in this case, Sofia. That, quite possible, if I had been
  • . 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
  • abroad in one place almost as well as another. But I remem- ber the time when I was first asked whether I would be interested in a diplomatic appointment, it was mentioned to me by one of President Truman's advisors that there weren't very many women
  • picture at this time? V: Not to the degree that he later became involved. He was involved in the financial part of it, but I would say that it was later on that Arthur took a role with President Johnson that really superseded everyone else
  • it was a gigantic papermill and that such things as arguing over whether we should be leaders in space--which later President Johnson and President Kennedy solved very quickly-occupied an incredible amount of time. So, to make a long story short--when Kennedy came
  • : PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN November 14, 1968 N: Let's identify you in time and position here. Hhen Hr. Johnson became President, you were serving as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. B: That's correct. N: You had been
  • every aspect of that statement. I don't think that the Arab world is yet in the Soviet camp. Soviet influence in the area has been increasing for quite a long time, but not allover the area. The Soviet influence is primarily in Algeria
  • to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
  • : Did you have any acquaintance with President Johnson or with Mr. Johnson prior to the time he was President at all? F: No. I'd like to add that I was a career foreign service officer, and had been with the Department of State for twenty-some-odd
  • in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965