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  • where we stood. He was well respected throughout the world as a military leader. We went through days where the papers were indicating that those islands would be invaded almost hourly.and it never happened. The United States stated where they stood
  • committees, and both Presidents supported our refusal to testify on, you know, farm legislation or almost any economic legislation that some committee member would say, "Well , we ought to get the advice of the Council of Economic Advisers." There were so
  • in the United States because it's an efficient way to transport it. But if one wants to ship it overseas or the way it's manufactured overseas, it's in solid form . Most of us think of fertilizers coming in bags . is that the President knew all about how
  • of the most dramatic and successful programs that the United States has ever fostered in the field of foreign affairs. Quite coincidentally, a friend of mine in New York was coming down as general counsel for the agency and asked me if I'd like to come down
  • involving the 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://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 security of the United
  • on the consequences of the testing, indicating that he had a divergence of opinion between the AEC, on the one hand, and the State Department on the other as to the course of action that the United States should take. preparing such a report. I spent about two weeks
  • Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections
  • and joked about it, and they came back with a final toast in a very friendly, jovial way about how they were one up on the United States because they didn't waste all this money on these long political campaigns. From there on though, the tone of the trip
  • Marshall asked me to help work on the Draft Act of 1940. Then I later worked with Mr. [Charles] Harding on eliminating German and Italian airlines in Latin America. I then subsequently worked with Nelson Rockefeller in the Office of the Coordinator of Inter