Biographical information; contact with LBJ; liberal clique; Rule 22; LBJ’s knowledge of the world; opinion regarding John Leacacos: Fires in the In-Basket, 1968; operational differences between Bundy and Rostow; White House National Security operation; Tuesday lunches; dissemination in the State Department of Tuesday lunch decisions; White House guidance on distribution of cable traffic in State Department; Kraslow and Loory’s The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam; Polisy “Marigold†Affair; personal review by LBJ on in-close targets near Hanoi; “Sunflower†episode; LBJ’s 3/31 announcement; Ho’s letter to the President; transition at the Department of State; Glassboro; LBJ as a good personal diplomat; Bill Moyers.
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Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 30, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-readb-19690113-1-74-237-a