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  • believe it was. Connally, who was then governor, was doing his damnedest to get out of Byers--I'm not certain it was Byers but I think I'm right. The Houston Post? F: I think Byers was with the Chronicle then. I'm not sure. W: Anyway, it was one
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • think that his work for the Post to this day is very professional, and I admire Don Oberdorfer. G: Peter J: Braestrup. Braestrup is one of the very best, in my view. He was always as objective as a top-flight reporter could be, in those days
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • projects, something like this? N: Yes. Well, there was of course the classic case of Margery Michelmore who dropped the post card in Nigeria which created pandemonium. I was in charge of the decompression of Margery when she got back to the United
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • it was a Saturday morning that the Washington Post had reported that Jackie's French chef had been let go. The reaction seemed to be, "Here's this guy that eats steak and mashed potatoes, and what does he know about good food?" That offended him greatly, and I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • support ot his visit there and prepared draft using Pres Kennedy1j l.etter to Chiang as guide line. Much of post-dinner conversation was concerned with tat of joint commmique which Clnang accepted with obvious enthusium and with only one substantive
  • into the bank to help him. He had one of the early manual adding machines or posting machines, and I can rememberhis teaching me to use the posting machine. I used to help him keep the accounts in the bank by doing the posting on the posting machine
  • be excel- lent and advanced in some post graduate areas. G: Also in 1965 you had the health and research facilities bill which called for a three-year extension, and that was slowed down because of an amendment by Senator [Russell] Long on patents. Do
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • conducted a number of field tests throughout the United States, from 1963 on through 1967, at various Army posts and various air bases throughout the country. We've also participated in some major field exercises that the military have conducted and have
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • to Laos as ambassador when you went out there. Ho~ did you get on that list? How did your name come up for that post? S: Well, it was a fairly natural thing. the Laos business in 1961-62. had sort of been Mr. Laos. lid been so much involved
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • . photoplane could. They couldn't see any more than an aerial And of course we had post-strike assessment recon recce photographs. It's just jungle. Made holes in the jungle. G: The aerial photos didn't improve as time went on then? S: The place just
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 1958, when I was asked to come back to the Budget Bureau. B: As deputy director? S: Initially as assistant director, then three months later as deputy director. But the deputy post was planned in my coming back. I stayed on in this job after
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • of thing on the basis that you can expect them to keep it quiet? M: In those days only the chairman of the committee was aware of it. G: I see. M: They never told the members of the committee. Now they just print it in the Washington Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • Quang Duc. Tri Quang was-- for six weeks there I was not at my post. I had speeches to make about Vietnam at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and elsewhere, which were already laid on. I have to do with it? thing about it. So your
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • with Orville Freeman and John Schnitker and others at the Department and became the listening post back and forth on farm programs. There was always a good deal of disagreement between the Department and Budget Bureau and the Council of Economic Advisors on our
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • was given a posting choice of Seoul, Korea; Vientiane, Laos; or Saigon, [South] Vietnam; those were the three [choices]. G: What year was this? P: This was 1959. I chose Saigon, got there in 1960. year the National Liberation Front was formed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Cline -- II -- 13 we would set up a post to which DOI people were assigned, but in practice in an overseas station if this guy didn't get up to his elbows
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • warnings about the troops coming down. And it was a very tortured ex post facto rationalization and apparently was drafted by Bill Bundy, who was attempting to pick up the pieces, not having been at LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • small post. made it easier, but I'm In a way, you might think that inclined to think that maybe it made it a little more difficult, and there were morale problems there. P: You are indicating though that they didn't come from the relationship from
  • --:as the committee on post-Vietnam adjustment I announced in my Economic Report last year· has been doing-and act boldly, we will have that 3 percent of output to add­ over a year or two-to our normal 4 percent a year of economic growth. If we preserve a healthy
  • . of course, motif--how and to claim of men, post-1945 JVJ) 1961, and Even where the eventual under way by the outgoing and his men for a change like the Alliance a line of policy Administration. American tradition has come to not only
  • themselves, but not many would stand up and oppose hi m. The Republi cans would always have somebody posted, by agreemen t, t o as k a tormen t ing or neg at ive question . By and large , though, Mr. Johnson could spot the question the moment it was asked
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
  • in 1968; post-mortem discussion; Lady Bird has clothes fittings & desk work; LBJ gives prepared speech at dinner for Democratic National Committee and then goes "off-the-cuff"; that morning, LBJ meets with Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Henry Fowler & John
  • ~~n:~~:=~e~.r Cabinet posts div°"J.mselves of stock A. J. GOODPASTER Lt. General, U.S.A. 14
  • criticism, To strengthen the team and also to meet the "Look here, why are you sending a general over to this highly complex diplomatic post?" he then got [U. Alexis] Alex Johnson to agree to go as my deputy, which was a very gallant thing for Alex to do