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  • . McNamara, Deputy Sect. Vance and Under Sect. Katzenbach. Cy proposes to releaa~. it at 4 p. m. on Wednesday. They have considered whether to make it available to the Israelis beforehand. The Israelis have asked for 2.4 hours lead time. Cy is inclined
  • -we can. conceive. 1. I begin with the fact that both Tommy Thompson and Chip Bohlen feel a certain regret that we did not pick up Kosygin 1 s message, institute a total bombing halt, and then lean very heavily on the Soviet Union to produce :resulta
  • , "All right, now get that on one piece of paper for me in the morning." I was rather disconcerted because at the time, while we were discussing this, there was a little bathroom off the side of the Oval Room and he was relieving himself in there while
  • Viet-Na m y Dea n Rusk • y Rober t McNamara t Rosto w : \ THE WHITE HOUSE Da PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSO N te 6 DAILY DIARY The President began hi s day at (Place) M• *"*»• /~
  • T ^ ^ ^ ^ Octobe VHITE HOUSE >ENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON . ,, Th 3 ^resident began hi s day at (Place) Day Time 11 In Out T* 1 V Lo e White Hous e n Frida £ r 18 , l|W Date y » f or t Activity LD (include visited by) t awake 8:20a
  • , and Johnson called Nixon in New York and he knew we were flying down to Key Biscayne, the key advisers and Nixon, for a quick vacation, and he urged him to come by the White House. And we did, and at that time they more or less agreed on Johnson's behest
  • '.Vier. - 3 ­ The President then summarized saying that actually there are only three for us. Goldberg said he wanted to take exception to a statement made by Secretary Rusk that there will be a future time to go to the United Nations
  • . Abon>, Prt•si­ dt>nl Johnson addresses the crowd of 4.000 friends, 1H·ighbors, long-time allies and political opponents. Although the race to complete last minute details was, in Mrs. Johnson's words, a ''cliff-hanger," at 11:30 a.m. on May 22, 197 l
  • , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: In the time of the riots in Washington for [Martin Luther] King [Jr
  • should go to Vietnam. Lucey also paid tribute to the "fine type of military men." He said they were just magnificent and it is just terrible that these men are called murderers. "This isn't the time to lie about the United States." - 3 ­ Rabbi P. Rudin
  • leadership had prevented Negroes from retaliating to violence with violence. By the time the Supreme Court of the United States, 12 months later, refused to review a lower court order ruling segregation on public transportation unconstitutional, a significant
  • in on November 11, 1966. I came from Rochester, New York, where I had been for some time previous connected with the Xerox Corporation and a practicing lawyer. I was chairman of the Board of Xerox and had been General Counsel and Chairman of the Executive
  • -- Interview I, Tape 1 -- 3 At any rate we made the connection and I went down and was interviewed. About the same time the word went from Senator Johnson through Dean Page Keeton, the University of Texas Law School, that he was looking for someone and two
  • was concerned, lasted from the time he became president, when you were national security adviser, until you resigned in December of 1965 and left in what, February of 1966? B: The end of February, 1966. M: The end of February. One of the most frequent
  • to go to school at George Washington University in 1951. school with time out for the Army. It was almost night I spent almost ten years at George Washington in English literature and working on my master's. F: Why did you pick George Washington? H
  • , taken in order perhaps. Any of the party politics type activities? L: Our responsibility was largely in the area of substantive preparation of the program. From time to time, we engaged in trying to educate people in Congress about the various
  • Commission. I don't want you to go into your background; I want to save that for a subsequent session. C: For some other time, yes. Well, I was at the White House with Brooks Hays, who had been a very dear friend of Berl Bernhard, and we were even really
  • such impact. I recall that he had some input into some problem--whether it was an oil problem or a steel price problem, I'm not sure; but I was not personally involved, and I was not aware of his involvement in other economic problems up to that time. F
  • to this place in 1954 then? TW: Right. G: I see. And, of course, the Johnsons had just had their place for about two or three years then, I guess, at that time? 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • Union, without having to send in spies or make those U-2 overflights or anything like that. That story has bounced back enough times that I have a feeling that it may be true. The rest of the trip was pure good will, nothing else, which is rather
  • r~:frfr;.;:?f'♦ l'tl'·!1';'lf'"'t'tf~~ ... l,.e, I 1' • •~~•,' ' \'- • • • • •• j • f.7''·Ip,, 4Fi¥,if I I, t ' . ,I ( .,, C.0141 ££££!5117 -2- At the present time, continued Portuguese coopera• tion is important to us
  • "lciatit"ln with all of them. They each had the right tf"l terminate my (appointment). one was designated. I presented my offer to move on each time a new As a Foreign Service Reserve Officer, one l s appointment is theoretically good only for as long
  • November. If 1949 was a period that for us, and in retrospect it seems to me for the country, was a sort of happy time, in 1950, particularly as the year wore on, there were rising clouds and frustration. The war was continuing in Korea and getting more
  • , going too far, staying too short a time, rush, rush, rush. I was not happily in tune. However, early in April I did have a little taste of [how] maybe I could get in tune. I went to what was billed as a "celebrity breakfast," in quotes, given by Theta
  • from the Capitol basement; the Congressional Club; Sam Rayburn's social status; the downing of a U-2 spy plane in the Soviet Union; the May 1960 primary election; Dorsey Hardeman and a bill passed in the Texas legislature to allow a person's name
  • some advice. So he introduced me to then-Congressman Lyndon Johnson. From that time until 1965, when I left the practice, I was counsel to the radio station KTBC AM, FM, and TV and other interests which the Johnson family acquired. F: Well, as you
  • of "A Time for Action" autographed. friend and ally, LBJ" "To Ismet Inonu, with warmest personal regards and admiration LBJ" Requested the Tariff Commission to begin an investigation for the purpose of advising the President on the probable economic effects
  • Magazine Globe Democrat Chicago OFF RECORD Heath Mr. Heat h Presente d th e Presiden t a frame d pictur e o f the 196 4 UT Commencemen t a t whic h time h e and Mrs. Johnso n receive d honorary degrees . Als o presente d thre e smalle r and individual
  • to the guidelines • . Four out of five of the union negotiators wanted a strike and there was nothing we could do to stop it. General Electric faces a big demand in negotiations in September. I have talked with leading businessmen such as Mr. Murphy of Campbell Soup
  • ·. Since the early 1950' s th'e United States has carried a larger share .of ~he ·· .' . defense burden of the North Atlantic area tar a longer period ot time than was anticipated. Moreover, todo.y this couriti-y has great responsibilities
  • ln , o f f e r e d to R o b e r t E. L e e Union A r m y . the c o m m a n d o f the L e e r e je c t e d it and c a s t his lot with the C o n fe d e r a c y . M r. M eany and I stood in fro n t o f the f ir e p la c e and had our p ictu re taken
  • crowds had gathered by this time. To the cars for the 1/2 block drive to the United Nations On arrival, directly to the 38th floor for private meeting U Thant, Secretary General of the United Nations Ralph Bunche Secretary Rusk Ambassador Goldberg
  • to Mr. Meyer.) Mr. Meyer: In Latin America there is a great interest in University teaching. Are you going to teach? The President: Not as a full-time faculty member. I don't want to be tied to a class every morning at 8:00-a. m. I will make periodic
  • . Ambassador Thompson had talked with Kosygin, and S ecretary Rusk had raised the matter with Ambassador Dobrynin the previous Thursday. The President said that he had 11played for time 11 with the Israelis . He had hoped before Secretary McNamara left to have
  • . Secretary, there have been reports that you helped President Johnson write his 1966 State of the Union address. Do you have any sir? comments on that report, Secretary Clifford: Only a general observation, that I was called on from time to time during
  • me five times. right, I'll do it. Finally I said, 'Well, all Somehow I'll make it up to my staff.' hqdn't written q word. All the time II This was in the very eqrl iest days of the Eisenhower years .. It's ah/ays been an amusing tal e
  • in the New York Times which was quite misleading in that it l eft the im.prcssion that the Viet C ong had achieved a major victory over the Vietnamese. Viet Cong loss es in this battle were sizeable . Although the week has been bloody, it has been pretty
  • . On January 2 l he came to the LBJ Auditorium to share his thoughts on where the world sta11ds today. and where it is headed. Not long after lapsed. Dr. Bobbitt ars proposed that an end. The great the Soviet Union col­ recalled. s me schol­ history had come
  • attend a reception in his honor at the Women’s National Democratic Club. They also attend the traditional birthday dinner in his honor given by long-time friend and recent widow, Mrs. J.L. Aston. In the late evening, Rayburn and LBJ attend the annual stag
  • , and invited her for dinner to our house. And at the same time invited a man who is now dead named Aaron Schaffer, who was head of the French Department, or maybe the Romance Language Department, at the University of Texas. He and his wife Dorothy were