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  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh November 13, 1968 P: Mrs. Anderson, in August 1965, you were named the United States Representative on the United Nations Trusteeship Council with the rank of Ambassador. A: Do you currently hold this position? No, I
  • urging me in the beginning to try to let him go. And I kept realizing the more I learned that this would be just disaster for him and also, I felt, for the United States because r felt that the Bulgarian government must know that we had him
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 and age when we have to communicate with the whole population, an ambassador today, in my opinion, an ambassador of the United States shouldn't just
  • and in the United Arab Republic, in Syria, to a less extent in Yemen; they certainly have a vital interest in the area. They're also interested in Iraq. They have a vital 1 interest in that part of the area of the world and have been trying to c r e a t e
  • correspondents who were with him all the time. I was then based in London, and I picked them up in Manila and went with them the rest of the way, including all the way back to the United States. But much of the time I was traveling on a press plane separate
  • 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
  • being moved out of Educational and Cultural Affairs, and he simply would not permit it. There followed nine weeks in which the question of what I was going 1 to do next w'as caught up bet'tveen the President of the United States and the C h
  • the war to the North in the form of aerial attack and the second was to commit organized units of American forces to combat. M: Were you closely involved with the presidential decision-making in either or both of those cases? J. I was still
  • in a logistics setup with respect to the MAAG [Military Assistance Advisory Group] that we had there then. But I was in Vietnam from 1954 to 1957. Then I came back to the United States. The Army insists that one go to school and so forth, and so I stayed
  • . That was the one division, two-thirds of one division plus assorted pactical air units. That was the equivalent of one division. M: Now, this was about May 19671 F: Yes. Kiesinger came in August, I think. And as I said, the Trilateral Negotiations
  • an instinctive feel for a lot of this stuff and everybody had told me, "God, watch him like a hawk, because here he is outside the United States and he won't know what to say and he'll put his foot in his mouth." I didn't find that at all. In fact, I found him