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  • would take a trip into New England. and we made six stops that day. It would be a one-day trip, I recall it very vividly. We went into Hartford, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island, and Burlington, Vermont, and Portland, Maine; Manchester, New
  • 1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign
  • 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
  • primarily in the economic area, such things as statements on the Kennedy Round after its conclusion, on the messages to Congress, on the special drawing rights legislation, on the amendments to the fund, the rather dramatic New Year's Day balance of payments
  • 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