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  • 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
  • . 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