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  • Date > 1969-11-03 (remove)

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  • to remember what was fact and what wasn't fact. M: Let's begin by identifying you, sir. You're Cyrus R. Vance, and your official positions in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations were entirely in the Department of Defense, as Counsel and as Secretary
  • Vance, Cyrus R. (Cyrus Roberts), 1917-2002
  • said later we were just not going to do it, and he said, "That's a good idea." F: Were you involved in the death of Robert Kennedy? S: No. F: That, you know, broke out pretty late 'Ivashington time. S: Oh, yes, I remember, and I was called about
  • really until President Kennedy came along, when he of course was vice president. I used to see him during those days; because one of my duties was to brief the Vice President on the situation in the Far East. M: That's one of the questions I wanted
  • for advice. He gave them the answers. F: I see, and the questions too, probably. Were you involved in the inaugural festivities at the time that President Kennedy was inaugurated? M: No, we were invited, but I made it a point of policy never to go
  • Simpson; weddings of Lynda and Luci; International Ladies Garment Union; fashion taste of Lady Bird and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy; the Committee for the Acquisition of American Art for the White House; White House social functions; privilege of serving