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  • the Post Presidential documents are in this section . Contains WWR's summary memo (5/14/73) and two copies of the full chronology . most of the news clippings are in this section 3. Documents fastened to the right side (#64-114) . These documents date
  • for that post, and Kennedy eliminated that prejudice. Johnson, in keeping his commitment in being LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Yale Club on the motivations of national public service. M: Was this ever published? F: Yes, it Was published and I think it was reprinted in full in the Washington Post at that time. Therefore, in answer to your question, LBJ Presidential Library
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • been fighting it in the North to begin with. ~ G: Of course, politically that's another story. T: Now don't bring in these details. (Laughter) G: .. Red China is not really a detail, I guess. T: Many times in post-war years in the course
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • bi tis beb/een 1962 and 1964, and you were Commander of the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Pacific. Do I have the basic command periods and posts essentially correct? M: Yes. Mc: Have you ever participated in any other sort of oral history project
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • graduated from Harvard in 1961, and free-lanced for a while--traveled for a year and then free-lanced writing a book about the travels-­ then went into the Marine Corps for a brief period, came out and rewrote the book, worked for the Washington Post
  • been director of the I & R [Intelligence and Research] from the beginning of the Kennedy Administration until 1963? H: Right. M: So you served about a year in the Far East post. H: Just a little over. M: Did you know Mr. Johnson at all prior
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . At meetings we recommended to Marshal Sarit--we thought that the thing he could do best--they had some isolated posts along the bank of the Mekong, sort of border posts. assumed greater importance. But now they We suggested that he put together a regiment
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • /oh able to do that with the very limited advance warning we had and so on, was a shock within government and it obviously was a shock to LBJ. You know that front page of the Washington Post that next morning with the pictures of the brand-new
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . You didn't start out to be a career diplomat . I took the Foreign Service examinations in May of 1936, and I started my first post at Vancouver at the end of December of '36 . F: Did you have any background in Latin America, or did you just sort
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Desautels -- I -- 4 went to the Post Office, that would be 1964, 1965. But the first one to come on board was Dave Bunn in the Johnson years. G: Did these people handle both House and Senate matters
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • before the coup; an offer to move Diem out of the country to safety; visiting the Presidential palace the day after the coup; flying with the Nhu children to Rome; JFK assassination; post-Diem conditions in Saigon; Georges Perruche; an explosion
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for the Saturday Evening Post. He went to see Lyndon and Lyndon turned to him [and] said, "Now, don't be like those boys Halberstam and [Neil] Sheehan. country." They're traitors to their When I heard about it later, I thought well, Lyndon, that's the kind
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Ackley -- II -- 18 press, the Times and the Washington Post, were against a tax increase all
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • contact with us because he knew that we were dependable, we have no selfish motives, and no political ambitions, none of us are candidates for any office, none of us wanted posts, but we were interested in the welfare of the community
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was doing this. was not in the room and quite properly not. I He wanted to have it a meeting among equals or peers, but I was going in and out of the office, and I was sitting at a little desk right outside his office doing my command post function
  • Van Kim; Ton That Dinh; Mai Huu Xuan; David Nes and Mike Dunn; management of the American Embassy in Vietnam; Lodge leaving his post as Ambassador and his political involvement; Flott duties under Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson; Max Taylor; comparing
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • got along fine. B: Do you believe that his choice of personnel was good in cabinet posts and sub-cabinet positions? S: I can't fault him with anybody that I know. his administration were good. competent~ So far as I I think the people that he had
  • ; LBJ’s reputation in the South; LBJ’s strengths and weaknesses; LBJ’s post-presidential activities.
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • from an important post returning to Washington would be received by the President. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • , who is a tax man, and have kept my interest in taxation throughout my professional career. I remained in the Treasury until mid-1953. As I said, the highest post I had was as Assistant Director of the Office of Tax Analysis. I then went
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Washington Post on the editorial page, I think it was the Washington Post, they had a list of quotations as long as your arm going back over the years, the so-called optimistic, over-optimistic statements and so on. from any member of the Joint Chiefs
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it must have come later. B: Later? Really? Of course, he was a strong Kennedy man, he was a strong Kennedy man. But on the other hand, in a way would that have been considered a comedown to go from a number-two cabinet post to a number-two OEO post? I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • that was taking essentially a sub-cabinet post, and not .necessarily the most important sub-cabinet post. M: You're a career appointee and not a political appointee. S: That~s right~ a career appointee rather than otherwise. So that was really my first
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • McCarthy and Senator Kennedy and the left wing has informers in the departments. The Times and the Post are all against us. Most of the press is against us. How can we get this job done? We need more money in an election year, more taxes in an election year
  • material in the last few days meetings with .many newspaper people, l;>ureau chiefs, columnists, magazine writers and broadcast men. He said he gave backgrounders to them all. He said they all practically surrender. Kilpatrick (Washington Post) has a son
  • that the President heard it and is displeased. The President talked about the poll in yesterday's Washington Post front page story which showed the President defeating Romney and Nixon whether George Wallace was in or out of the race. He pointed out that last
  • there until about March or April of 1970. So I was in Vietnam for two years, from post-Tet to just before the invasion of Cambodia. G: I see. What was the situation like, post-Tet? What did you find when you came in country and took over the division? E
  • Biographical information regarding Vietnam tour of duty; post-Tet to pre-invasion of Cambodia; Delta; Long An; Dinh Tuong occupations by Viet Cong; TO & E NVA units and Viet Cong main force; press and TV coverage of Vietnam War; body count; Hamlet
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • price policy; union democracy; stockpiling; Direct Investment Program; balance of payments; transition; cabinet committee work on post-planning for economic consequences of the end of Vietnam War
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • a grain. Late in the summer of 166-M: '65? C: '65--Jim Thompson and I had had some talks with Ambassador Louis Jones who had been Ambassador for many years to Djakarta. Jones was taking up the post as Chancellor or president of the East-West Center
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • as Deputy Under Secretary of the Army for Manpower. I served in that post for two years, so that it wasn't until 1963 that I moved to OSD and took up the civil rights job which had not hitherto existed. That was one of the by-products of the Gesell
  • about it. President Kennedy was very firm about it being in that location. And I never heard any indication that Johnson had any other thoughts. The only group that seemed to be doubtful about it was the Washington Post. I always felt they were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of the Washington Post. M: Of course. R: I was asking Carroll and Pete Lisagor and a couple of other people if this was really true, if Johnson did have this notion LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in the Dominican Republic, post crisis. That's really when I did get to know him. G: So then you left the government. M: I left the government and went over to Senator Kennedy's office in, I think it was either late April or May of 1966 and stayed there. LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Relations Committee? M: Well, yes, I did. The Foreign Relations Committee post opened up rather unexpectedly, to me at least. I had been kind of waiting in the wings for an opening on the committee for some time, since that was my primary area
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . Now as far as Valenti's calling and calling on editors and asking them to drop our column, that, I'm sure, came from the President, because Valenti wouldn't ever do a thing like that on his own. The Houston Post was one, the Los Angeles Times
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • for Alaska and for Hawaii, giving all the reasons that both statehood advocates of Hawaii and Alaska gave. He really worked for it, too. M: He would have been more or less working on the R e p u b l i c ~ n s . B: Yes. M: And he was in a cabinet post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • agricultural economics at the University of California Is that from California? from '46 on, and were head of the department there from '57 on. You have an impressive list of advisory and consultant posts. M: I was also Director of the Giannini Foundation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • - ~-rep~~Y." They were she had played · a role in the I Godfrey Hodgson ;; s C -i ..; The Washington Post Wednesday, July 23, 1969 _L etters' t 'tl ., The E'ditor:i:. ~!. .. ,~ Black Mark for Teddy White Being personally acquaint ed with "Mrs