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  • and Lyndon Johnson, not well, but I was with him from time to time. For example, I was in charge of Kennedy's trip out to New Mexico and Nevada on a defense inspection that he made some time after taking office. Lyndon Johnson was on that trip, so
  • the Truman Administration. At that time, I don't recall exactly the position that senator Johnson-F: I'll refresh you on that. November '48. He was a new Senator; he had been elected in Then, after '50 when Ernest McFarland was defeated, he was named
  • : Where were you on assassination day? A: Having lunch in the White House Staff Mess. Walter Heller and most of the members of the cabinet were on that plane over the Pacific, and the news c a m e while we were at lunch. F: How did it come, just
  • twenty years of government service which began in 1948 after completing your law degree and an association with a New York City law firm. From 1948 to 1955 you were associated with the Economic Cooperation Administration, and your last position
  • at Grady Memorial Hospital which is one of Emory University's teaching hospitals . In 1952, having completed my post-graduate training, I accepted an appointment as assistant professor of medicine at Yale University in New Haven. After two years
  • that I can recall was [Leverett] Saltonstall of Massachusetts, a very scholarly and distinguished and reserved New England gentleman. He made some changes in his family plans and came back and privately expressed his disgust at what had been done. G: I
  • almost the entire seaboard, and it would I think represent a real threat to the independence, and the western orientation, of not only Japan but also Indonesia, the Phillippines, and potentially even Australia and New Zealand. But what I've suggested