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  • : Robert Dallek PLACE: 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 1 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 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
  • , 1964, AT 12:00 NOON IN THE CABINET ROOM OF THE WHITE HOUSE The President of the United States, Presiding Speaker of the House of Representatives AID David Bell, Director ATTORNEY GENERAL Robert F. Kennedy CIA John A. McCone, Director DEFENSE Robert S
  • 3/10/64 Mrs. Roberts , For the President's casual reading . .· M c George Bundy's office ' ~ I ..... --~ THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON March 10 , 1964 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT George McGhee delivered your letter to the Chancellor
  • AND TO -, : ·~ ·~:: ~: FOLLOW .IT BY ONE TO THE U .s • WOULD APPEAR .TO PLAY DOWN THE . : . :... , ::J : : . .. MEXICAN VISIT. I OF ·coURSE p·o INTED ' OUT Tif AT THE ·_ VISIT TO TH£ ·' _·. . ~:j HAD · BEEN AGREED WITH KENNEDY · AND TH AT THERE NEED
  • over here on September 15. I will have Bro·mley Smith work on the question of a proper office in the Executive Office Building, where Max has lived happily before. MEMORANDUM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON - 2 6. You may wish to know that Bob Kennedy has
  • 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
  • -/~/u MEMORANDUM FOR ... ~A~677~ z~ Authori ' )' -< ~ By THE PRESIDENT 1• ' .L 1 ·· , Da % ~/J',?? Sir Robert Menzies, the Prime Minister of Australia, is making an informal visit in order to establish personal contact with you
  • . On the boner l made ahout.1611"lculture and the Kennedy R owid, I think the damage control baa been fairly good. Charlie Murphy was moat andentandlng and says that ~srlculture will cbeer!Wly make it clear that nothmg has changed. Charle• Balley, who follows
  • FOR THE PRESIDENT Re: Your Representative at the Runnymede Ceremony As you know better than I, the British will be dedicating a memorial to President Kennedy at Runnymede on May 14. The ceremony is underthe organization of the Kennedy Memorial Trust, which has
  • . ~. McG. B. Disapproved Singapore mes sage: Birthday message: ------ v ------- Approved Disapproved ------ by Returned/M:e Roberts 11/ ~ '65 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON -TOI? SJ!?GRET Friday, August 27, 1965 2:55 MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT
  • . Foreign policy is not essentially a matter of rhetoric or protocol or personality, or even style. It was not so with ·President Kennedy and it is not so with President Johnson. The real tests of policy are deeper and more serious. They have been met
  • . Nothing has given me greater support in the past nine months than my knowledge of Pre~ident Kennedy's confidence that I could i. c,~ ~e
  • sabataace aa wbat i . now plaas to eay. . McG. B. ·'' THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Tuesday, June 22, 1965, 9:15 PM MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT Subject: Senator Robert Kennedy's Statement on Nuclear Proliferation. At Mr. Bundy's request, I prepared
  • , the- bad political impact abJ:>oad, the -dam•1• to our own tourlttt propam. and effects on the Kennedy R.o und. . ~ All ol thi• will culminate ln reco~•ndatlona next w•ek tor a Pr~aid•ntlal . 0 mesa•a•. In ad.ditlon, lt looke as tf you would be asked
  • Asia. McG. B. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Fri., Feb. 4, 1966, 12:30 MR. PRESIDENT: These pages from a standard book of reference show the general context in which President Kennedy was working on Caribbean matters in October, 1963. m~ rs. McG. B
  • WASHINGTON Tuesday, September 14, 1965, 5 PM MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT I had lunch today with Bob Kennedy, and it was the best discussion we have had in more than a year. We talked about a number of topics, but mostly about Vietnam, and I must say I
  • CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE DATE ~ _ JD_ r i' N '- ~/$/. the President to Sir Robert Menzies 1 page possible classified information letter 26a information ·- ~ 0.- /)./ RESTRICTION J i t . 7 ". ·4 /8/65 A L / mem----­ letter 26c duplicate of 26a 4
  • of this will help much on this particular Hilsman story, but I think we can be sure that the next time he will at least give us a whack at him before he pops off. 4. This raises the more general question of Ted Kennedy's subcommittee, and unless you object, I would
  • the Committee report•· personally. Sincerely youra, ' Mr. Robert S. Benjamin Chairman, National Citinns• Comtnlaclon on Inter.national ·Cooper•tion United Nations Aeaoclatlon of the U.S.A. _ 345 Eaat 46ih Sts'eot Now York, New York 1001? GC:jf MEMORANDUM J
  • of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. President Eisenhower broke new and fertile ground with the Act of Bogota in 1960 -- an act growing from the understanding compassion of one people for another. President Kennedy built on these efforts and gave them increased
  • position on these matters is the same as the position of President Eisenhower and President Kennedy. First, I agree with President Eisenhower's statement of 1955 that "you can draw no sharp line between tactical use of atomic weapons and strategic use. 11
  • the military pressure on so that Hanoi will be forced to sit down at the bargaining table. 5, ~ Senator Robert Kennedy ~: ;.. !,•· a. It is difficult for him to provide a worthwhile judgment after only two or three minutes of thought. I . b. People
  • ) NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS SERVICE WITHDRAWAL SHEET (PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARIES) FORM OF DOCUMENT #7 a memo CORRESPONDENTS OR TITLE RESTR ICTION ~fr~an:ii't;,/qr ~g--~-'~ ,_..Secret #::(5a DATE memo A t-0 tae Prnsid:ent -rrrnfI' Robert
  • for him on the nuclear business and get the British into a collective force with the Germans. I am sorry to say that this has become an obsession with Walt, as also with George Ball, Robert Schaetzel and Henry Owen - - they keep coming back to it by one
  • . ffiOIDQ.. #55b report #55c report #55d report ~~-----t-~~µ:ill--+-----1::L__ Hillia:ffl C. BoHdleP. ~ J; ..1-f> to the PRESIDENT FROM R. W. Komer .,, / f #Sla memo 7 't- J .,._..,Jiv,1,/KAJ'r, ..._. to Deputy Sec, Dept. Defense from Robert W
  • appropriated in fiscal '65, but he does not insist on it, and if I understood you correctly on the phone, the quieter way would be simply to refer to the Texas press conference. ~I\, McG. B. PRESS CONFERENCE of HON. ROBERT S. McNA.MARA SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
  • . North Vietnam, and to be in a position on 30 days• · notice to initiate the .program of "Graduated Overt Military Pressure" against North Vietn4m. Robert . s. McNamara I I ____..:- ---- I• . i. ,..., I ,' , -t"'...... :! I " ~ j f
  • very much for letting me take a half-holiday to go to New York. This is by way of being Jackie Kennedy's "out of mourning" party, and I think you know that Mary and I have special reasons for wanting to be there. 2. Beyond this, I have still further
  • 'f 1' ~) v~ Omar George Kisti.akowsky Black - -- Brac'!.ley_~-- John Cowles Arthur Dean ----- Arthur Larson Morris Leibman Robert Lovett - 7 Roswell Gilpatric Paul G. Hoffman --- John J. Mc Cloy I -------- Teodoro Moscoso l•Me:e Pcdcins
  • reference to wa.ntlng to talk to Axnbaseado:r J,o nes before replylng to-you refers to hls deslre to review the memorandum o.f' unde:r­ standlng whlch Walt pl'"epar.ed. Points 4, 6 and 7 are deslgned to provide a.dditlonal reassurance. Robert Komer
  • House and himself on important matters affecting Soviet-American relations. He said that during President Kennedy's administration such informal chapnel existed in the presence of the then Attorney General. He quickly added that because of Senator
  • in President Kennedy's Administration was the fact that he, Kemal, had been allowed to have an entirely private 10-minute audience with President Kennedy. Kemal also said that he has Nasser's authority to have a similar private interview now if you invite him
  • in individual cases, he really has no shortage of access to responsible officials. This is an old battle with Joe. He had one round with President Kennedy and of course had an unending contest with President Eisenhower. He plans to raise this question again
  • would like nothing better, and we are prepared to react inunediately ~ to such an eventuality o· Approve _____________________ Disapprove_____________________ Discussion: I I j. .. The late President Kennedy and I on various occasions following