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Folder, "National Security Council - 1961 [1 of 3]," VP Papers, VP Security Files, Box 4 (Item)

in the donor's deed of gift, GENERALSERVICES ADMINISTRATION GSA DC 73-495 GSA FORM 7122 (7-72) NATIONALARCHIVESANO RECORDSSERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET(PRESIDENTIALLIBRARIES) FORMOF DOCUMENT -ll,.).bJ~-3::01r---r CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE NSC Actions n-0

Oral history transcript, John A. McCone, interview 1 (I), 8/19/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

and the Democrats quite well and faithfully--everyone from Truman forward as President. I wonder how you first came into contact with Lyndon Johnson. M: My first contact with Lyndon Johnson was in 1950 or 1951 when I was Under Secretary of the Air Force during
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

in the defensive capabilities of the country. Now the parts of our program that receive major criticism at the present time involve military aid to such countries as Ethiopia and to countries in Latin America. I think I've explained earlier that our military

, to the American people, and to our allies, that such an action was, indeed, a step toward peace. A cessation of bombing which would be followed by abuses of the DMZ, Viet Cong, and North Vietnamese attacks on cities or such populated areas as provincial capitals

, you might say, my course of action--which incidentally I think was quite close to the course recommended by the Joint Chiefs, except possibly for stopping the bombing altogether-whether we would have been any farther advanced today, no one can say. I

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