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  • ]. What about that alleged disclosure he's making of the U Thant 1964 activity? all? Did you get involved in that at Of course, that occurred before you actually took the Vretnam assignment in the White House, but you said you were following Vietnam
  • Roa right before the election? C: Yes, and some other attacks on American installations in Saigon; I suspect that some of the first tentative approaches toward a possible political settlement that U Thant and a few others were trying to promote might
  • : But that didn't cripple the operation? S: Oh, hardly! M: Did the bureau ever constru ct a satisfac tory of Adlai Stevenson's Hardly, hardly. conversations with U Thant that were relayed by--? S: Well, that's a very, very fascinat ing chapter , because
  • ; the U Thant initiative; the Harriman group; the Chester Cooper mission to London
  • for the funeral, then on to Saigon for a brief visit, then meeting with the Secretary of Defense and Ambassador Lodge and General Westmoreland, who had by then succeeded General Harkins ; and well, everybody--and Admiral Felt would it have been or /U .S . Grant
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 11 the U n i t e d S t a t e s and I have no claim whatever to make an appointment." He said, "If you don't work out the name, if you dou't tell me that he's up to doing the job, I
  • that U Thant had indicated .. Well, you want me to just go ahead then and talk? B: All right . M: Well, maybe this, as a way of starting . The generally accepted account is that by the end of 1964, the situation in South Vietnam was rapidly
  • the limits of their relationship with Hanoi and the invluence that they could bear. But in any event I think that one in London was one of the most promising. I had no patience for U Thant and some of his claims, in which he suggested that he told Stevenson
  • of an act of courage on Hubert's part. We had Paul Hoffman, U Thant, Adlai Stevenson, Fulbright, various people. The tone of the meeting almost of necessity, as the way things were developing, was critical of the administration. And so from that time