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  • 6/11/68 TO: Marie Fehmer FROM: Barefoot Sanders Resume of Leadership Breakfast, Tuesday, June 11, 1968 'J The Leadership Breakfast today was attended by Senators Mansfield and Byrd, Speaker McCormack, Congressmen Albert and Boggs
  • from General Taylor, now chief of staff, U.S. Army. He wanted to know if there was any cogent reason why I shouldn't go to South Vietnam to relieve, or to replace General Mike, or Iron Mike, O'Daniel. G: Excuse me, sir, you called him Iron Mike. H
  • Biographical information; history of U.S. activities in South Vietnam; assignment to Vietnam; Korea; Kumsong salient; Mike O’Daniel; MAAG in Vietnam; 1955 relations with the French; Edward Lansdale; early political-military situation; religious
  • . Are you going to run for office? H: No. I toyed with it. F: I'm not trying to put you on the spot. H: I thought of it at one time when Mike Mansfield said he was going to make this his last term. But since then Mike has said that he's not going
  • on military strength, he was always a very strong supporter of a strong United States Armed Forces and of strong military alliances, and in fact was one of the chief persons in the Senate at the time there was serious effort led by Senator [Mike] Mansfield--I
  • were asked to--I think he even did Mr. [Mike] Mansfield this take majority leader. way in convincing him to As I understand it, Mr. Mansfield did not want that job and the President just appealed that, "You've got to serve your country." How often
  • Robert Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles; LBJ discusses gun control with Senator Mike Mansfield; LBJ calls Senators Dirksen & Aiken about agriculture; Lady Bird cancels appointments; Lady Bird works on telegrams for Rose & Ethel Kennedy; LBJ makes
  • a filibuster, and that stopped us because the Democratic leader Mansfield would not try to break the filibuster. You see, the way you break the filibuster is by meeting around the clock, just keep on meeting, and Mansfield absolutely refused to do
  • there, and then we had a little ceremony with Senator Mansfield, Senator Dirksen, all the people, and we paper and hung it up there . all signed a piece of But it wouldn't have come back if he hadn't helped . F: After he became president you have a campaign