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  • LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE: DOUGLAS DILLON INTERVIEWER: PAIGE MULHOLLAN M: Letl s begin by identifying you sir. More on LBJ
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  • Dillon, C. Douglas (Clarence Douglas), 1909-2003
  • Oral history transcript, C. Douglas Dillon, interview 1 (I), 6/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan
  • C. Douglas Dillon
  • address? Voice: Yes, sir. G: Dig it up, will you? He might be a big help to you. F: Yes, I'd be very interested. Johnson, of course, in this period became the Senate majority leader. Did that make any great difference in the operation of the Senate
  • INTERVIEWEE: ROBERT TAFT, JR. INTERVIEWER: PAIGE E. MULHOLLAN PLACE: Congressman Taft's office, Cannon 315, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 M: Let's just identify you, sir. You're Robert Taft, Jr., Republican from First District of Ohio in the current
  • commitments. aid. It really was military aid but we called it foreign The Congress then wanted to spend money at home instead of overseas. Now, 90 per cent of the money that we spent for foreign aid was really spent here manufacturing our stuff
  • primarily? Me: Yes. Mu: Once the assassination of President Kennedy occurred and Mr. Johnson was suddenly President, how quickly did he contact you? Me: He contacted me at home the next morning. President Kennedy was assassinated on Friday around 1
  • Johnson before you came into the White House? H: No, sir, I didn't run into him until I came down to Washington with President Eisenhower, which would have been in January of 1953. F: Right. How soon did you become aware of him? Do you have any clear
  • since what date, G: About the first of July, I don't recall, 1966. but at any rate, sir? Maybe it was the first of August. the middle of 1966. M: And you had previously been with the Agency since what time? G: 1961. In 1961 I was appointed
  • It caused me a little trouble, but not that I went home and told them why--that I'd rather have them have • the wheat and eat it up and have it pass on into infinity than I would have them save the gold and use it to buy machine tools or something. M
  • have troubles enough at home and why go outside and worry about them. I think it's a result of a failure to recognize that we can't insulate ourselves from the rest of the world. F: We can't. With your work in the development program, and with your