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  • Urban affairs
  • PROPOSED STATEMENT ON TAX REDUCTION; TODAY'S MEETING ON DOMINICAN REPUBLIC; LEAKS FROM ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON CLOSING OF VETERANS HOSPITALS; MCGEORGE BUNDY'S UPCOMING APPEARANCE AT VIETNAM TEACH-IN; WASHINGTON, DC CRIME BUDGET MESSAGE; RFK; DOUGLASS
  • and the Department of Defense and finally Mr. Clifford called the President and said, "Now what are we going to do, because, what they're putting out is not entirely true''and so finally the President said, well you go ahead and tell exactly what happened, .because
  • Urban affairs
  • a career minister that I wouldn't have had the same freedom and the sane independence, you might say, to do what I thought was right, lacking clear-cut instructions from the Department. I wasn't afraid, or I wasn't worried, about my future. I can always go
  • , "Yes we would be glad to visit -- receive a.ny of theni, including the Senator, on any plan he had or any -suggestion. 11 I just spent two hours today with Dean Acheson who for a week had been over at the Defense Department/being briefed and over
  • Urban affairs
  • on the phone and said that he had just arrived in Genevaand had to see me most urgently, and could he come right over. I, having had some dealings with him previously up at NewYork in the United Nations during the Korean affair; said I was sorry, that he
  • Department of State
  • gained very muchin the way of standing and prestige within the Department itself and nationally. I'm really proud of him. Today in the Department I also called in the Japanese,Ambassador and. Mr. Hogen--the Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs
  • Department of State
  • sort of a leg man between the Department of State and the Vice President's office. I saw him during that period from time to time; I saw him in several periods when there were key issues on international affairs before us; he came to numerous meetings
  • Biographical information; contacts with Johnson; support of LBJ in 1960; Democratic Policy Commission; State Department informing Vice President's office; Potomac Marching Society; Kennedy Administration; working for Johnson; Advisory Committee
  • was on the national security staff of Mr. Rostow. Prior to that you had been deputy assistant secretary of state for public affairs from 1965 until 1966. Prior to that you had been special assistant to Mr. [Averell] Harriman. been on the Policy Planning Council
  • Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 8 ambassador to Canada, and I had understood that this was a good probability. But apparently someone in the--I don't know who it was--in the State Department. perhaps. who had other
  • , March2. Then I worked the following week in the Department, seeing various people and attended ~n NSCmeeting, the President and the membersof the NSC,on Thursday, March8. On Friday, March9, I had further discussions and then left on Saturday, March10
  • Department of State
  • voted for a particular president or party I don't think really gets in the way. M: Your chief contact was the State Department public affairs people. How much of the administration's difficulty came from poor press operations in LBJ Presidential
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh March 12, 1969 M: Perhaps the best way to begin is by identifying you. You are John Leddy and your position at the end of the Johnson Administration was Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs. Prior
  • bill; Greek Coup; mishandling of MLF; role of the State Department and the White House.
  • in, Bundy and Rostow called me up and asked me to come on over and be the first member of the so-called Bundy State Department. I was the first man recruited for the national security group at the White House, LBJ Presidential Library http
  • opinions to negotiate better politically; summarizing State Department briefings on foreign visitors for LBJ; problems between India and Pakistan; getting involved with Vietnam; the December1965 37-day bombing halt; George Ball and the Cyprus situation; LBJ
  • my own place in affairs, because I have no illusions and I knowof nothing that's boring than the memoirs of worn-out diplomats. more However, my grandchildren may perhaps wonder what kind of a grandfather they had. They may perhaps wonder what
  • Department of State
  • in the United States until 1961, when I returned to Vietnam and stayed until 1964. At that time, I switched over from the military, wearing a soldier suit, to staying in the military but actually working for the State Department. I went back again in 1965
  • Lodge got Jacobson a position in the State Department as mission coordinator; Jacobson's opinion of Graham Martin, Maxwell Taylor, Ellsworth Bunker, Creighton Abrams, and Frederick Weyand; Ed Lansdale's 1965 trip to Vietnam and the work of a group under
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh (TAPE #3) Nov. 14, 1968 P: Mrs, Anderson, why have not more women gone into foreign relations or foreign affairs, and why weren't there any sooner than your appointment in 1949? A: I suppose one
  • LBJ'S MEETING LAST NIGHT WITH HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE; NEED FOR ECONOMIC, MILITARY BUDGET SUPPLEMENTALS FOR VIETNAM; MEDICINE FOR CUBA; POSSIBLE LBJ RECORDING FOR JFK LIBRARY; RAID OF CUBA; AID TO LAOS, BURMA, CAMBODIA, INDONESIA; LBJ'S
  • LBJ'S TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH MLK ON VIETNAM, WATTS RIOTS; LBJ ISSUES INSTRUCTIONS ON COORDINATING FEDERAL PROGRAMS TO ALLEVIATE WATTS SITUATION; CHARLES FRANKEL APPOINTMENT AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATIONAL, CULTURAL AFFAIRS
  • LBJ DISCUSSES POSSIBLE LANGUAGE IN UN ANNIVERSARY SPEECH ABOUT VIETNAM PEACE EFFORTS; PRESS LEAKS FROM STATE DEPT; EAST GERMAN HELICOPTER FLIGHTS OVER WEST BERLIN; POSSIBLE MEETING OF PANEL OF CONSULTANTS ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
  • LBJ TELLS MCNAMARA TO DISCUSS VIETNAM POLICY WITH SOMEONE (GERALD FORD?) WHO IS APPEARING ON "TODAY SHOW" TOMORROW; MCNAMARA REPORTS THAT THE PRESIDENT'S CONSULTANTS ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS SUPPORT INCREASE IN US COMMITMENT; LBJ'S MEETING TODAY
  • LBJ DISCUSSES VIETNAM SITUATION, SUGGESTS HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE OFFER AMENDMENT TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION WHILE CONSIDERING VIETNAM APPROPRIATIONS BILL BUT DEFEAT AMENDMENT IN COMMITTEE, THUS SHOWING HOUSE SUPPORT FOR VIETNAM
  • RUSK'S TALK WITH BOURKE HICKENLOOPER ABOUT SENATE EFFORTS TO RESCIND TONKIN GULF RESOLUTION; LBJ MIMICS FULBRIGHT, ASKS RUSK TO TALK TO DIRKSEN ABOUT FOREIGN AID BILL; POSSIBLE HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE VOTE ON RESCINDING TONKIN GULF
  • ABBA SCHWARTZ' RESIGNATION; NEED FOR MORE AUSTRALIAN, KOREAN TROOPS FOR VIETNAM; JOSEPH PALMER OR WAYNE FREDERICKS AS ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS; NEED TO APPOINT NEGROES IN STATE DEPT; FRANKLIN WILLIAMS; FULBRIGHT'S CHINA STUDY