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  • been reading about this coznmission from Kennedy. about it. We've started reading DALEY: Oh, yes. WATSON: I want to tell you what we know about it. Mel Elfrin, of Newsweek magazine, tells us he got his original tip from a freind of Ted
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
  • B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abel--I--5 was hardly ever mentioned. There was one incident mentioned to me by a member of the Kennedy family after
  • LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press
  • Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 F: Mr. Komer, I know you've done this for the Kennedy people [John F. Kennedy Oral History Project] but very briefly I'd like you to get us up to 1963, how you came from birth to the attention of the President. K: Well, very
  • strong that we ought to pull out and this was a bad situation, including Senator Kennedy, and we told them that if we got one Senator without getting the Chairman of the Foreign Relations and the Chair~an of the Armed Services. that they would just run
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
  • appointed by President Kennedy? B: I was appointed by President Kennedy in May of 1962 to that job. M: Had you had before that time any opportunity to make acquaintance with Mr. Johnson before he became President? B: Well, I was trying to remember
  • 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
  • Department administration currently? A: I think in some places it may be. I think it depends to a large extent on the Ambassador, on the Chief of Mission. I feel that there was again another--as you probably know, under Kennedy there was another
  • obviously. The reason I'm delving on this early period is that you were in a good position to have an impression at least of what the nature of the American commitment in Vietnam was during the latter two years of President Kennedy's tenure and, thus
  • Professional background; Jordan’s two trips to Vietnam; report that the North Vietnamese threat was serious; Kennedy’s 1961-1963 decision to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Jorden’s belief that Kennedy would have followed LBJ course in Vietnam
  • to that, in the immediate past, you had served as Ambassador to OEeD and then prior to that in the Kennedy Administration, both as Director for the United States and the World Bank for a short time-L: Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
  • 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
  • became President. This was in December of 1963, soon after he had assumed office following the death of President Kennedy, tions, I believe, from I had been home for a few weeks on consulta- Sofia. I was anxious to see President Johnson LBJ
  • with it, and although he probably approved the broad general outlines of what Dulles was doing, he was not taking a very direct, certainly was a great contrast with what I'll personal interest in it. This relate later of my experience with President Kennedy
  • think that President Truman was a great builder, a great architect of our policies of collective security and development. I think that Presi- dent Kennedy was able in a--to project an image of this country and of his own leadership
  • meant Kennedy. When he talked about his conversation with Dean, you knew it was Rusk. When he talked about anybody in any position at all, he used nicknames and first names, and I think he had the chief justice of the Supreme Court that came out