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Robert Dallek
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New York City, New York
Tape 1 of 1, Side 1
B:
What are you doing with this [material]?
D:
I am working on volume two of my Johnson biography. Volume one, Lone Star Rising,
came out--
B:
Yes, I remember. I haven't read
- Robert Dallek's work on LBJ biographies; LBJ's personality; comparing JFK's and LBJ's knowledge of foreign affairs; LBJ's relationships with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and JFK during his vice presidency
- Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek
- to the hottest years of the Kennedy
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Bundy -- I -- 2
Administration. I'm not saying that he
- government work; Bundy's DePauw University speech; LBJ's view of the Kennedys, specifically Bobby; Bundy's relationship to the Kennedys; the Washington D.C. cocktail circuit and its effect on public opinion; LBJ's accessibility; how the staff went about
- that; that Ed Guthman book [Robert Kennedy in His Own Words].
B:
Yes. It has him saying in 1964 that he believes in the domino theory; JFK believed in it;
we all believed in it. That isn't quite true; we didn't all believe in it. But most of us did,
and he did
- Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-II, 11/10/1993, by Robert Dallek
- .
President Kennedy, I think, was equally clear that the assassination of Diem and [Ngo
Dinh] Nhu was a terrible thing, but I believe had tended to side with those who felt that
there was reason for putting pressure on Diem and hoping for change, without
- had a
bargain with the President that he would honor an agreement that I had made with
President Kennedy that I would go on vacation in January of 1964, I guess. Then
certainly part of the Panama crisis was during that absence, but I do remember being