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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-12-19 (remove)

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  • be primarily a means to an end for political purposes? M: None at all. The only conversations I've ever had with the President about the work of that bureau, or for that matter I may say with Secretary Rusk, were on the general subject and the very difficult
  • in a telephone? M: No. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Sometimes he's alone. We have a phone here which is plugged in, and if he gets a call I'll ask him if he wants to speak to the person or would they rather wait while he's relaxing, and if he
  • what is sometimes referred to as the mezzanine or the second floor is where our operations were set up. We had telephone hookups in Massachusetts with Mr. Kennedy's people from there, and we had some hookups statewide and some nationwide, where we could
  • conversations with [Ngo Dinh] Diem, who was then President of--or whatever the title was--of South Viet Nam. In countries like Sweden and Norway and Denmark and Finland and Iceland where you had mostly socialist governments or labor governments, he got along