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- to make responsible decisions. 1I
And like everybody
else I supported him very actively.
And so the end of the first period of our relationship was rather
funny.
As you probably know, Phil Graham and I had gone to President
Kennedy at the critical
- Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-presidential nominee
- ?
That's a good question, and this is the one that we've asked each
other in the last few days.
Basically, our memory--and I'm speaking
of ours as Danny Graham's, Charlie Morris ' , and mine, and it makes
some sense--[is] that as soon as they got within
- was represented--by this time the so-called Adams
position was the CIA position, and there was a whole line-up of CIA
analysts on the CIA side.
Representing MACV was the then-Colonel
Daniel Graham, a captain called Kelly Robinson, a marine colonel
called Paul
- ; the Kennedy staff that stayed to work for LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with the press compared to that of previous presidents; (dis)advantages of getting close to the president; LBJ’s relationship with Phil and Kay Graham; Great Society speech; type of access press
- hotshots in there.
So I got two of them, the two best in
the army: Charley Morris, whose name I've already given you, and the
other is Danny Graham, both of them excellent intelligence officers;
both of them had worked for me and knew how I worked; both