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- that he was contemplating proposing the opening of negotiations or
conversations, or talks I think is the word that was very carefully used,
with CommunistChina and proposing me as the U.S. representative,
I accept.
and would
I was somewhatstartled
- o'clock in the morning went back to see him again.
Obviously there had been either a telephone call or a message from
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- on Tuesdays and Fridays.
fonnal.
in our office and
The meetings are usually fairly
Wemake a statement to each other to get things in the record and
then, after the meeting, we break up into private conversations;and these
conversations have been going ~n
- enough about that to have
anything substantive to tell you about it.
G:
Right. Were you very conversant with what I guess then-Colonel Lansdale was up to in
regards to the North? I know the evacuation was going on at that time.
J:
Yes. No, I
- ambassadorthere in Malta who is a political appointee
and he wanted me to see if I couldn't makesomechange on that.
Well, the British, of course, had been in Malta a long time. Wehad
a numberof conversations with the British and examinedall possibilities
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into the hotel, walking right through the crowd shaking hands.
He
was obviously having a good time •
•
[A] half-hour after he got into the hotel, the telephone rang.
"The Vice President would like to see you Mr. Komer!fI
right up.
There was the VP.
So I
- and Pakistan with LBJ; accompanying Vice President LBJ on Middle East trip; disagreeing with LBJ; differences in how JFK and LBJ dealt with their staffs; anecdote regarding King Faisal Abdel al Saud; suggesting conversation topics for Vice-President LBJ to use