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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
LBJ Presidential Library
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
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he walked into that room I sensed he was overwhelmed by the immensity
of the office and was quite docile and withdrawn and overwhelmed by the
President, who took the initiative immediately and started the conversation going and never let up
- 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 •
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[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