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  • 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 http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781
  • 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
  • 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
  • with the Achesons. And I remember at break£ast-- the first morning that we were there--Dean Acheson had a telephone call in the middle of breakfast and went out and then came back to the table. he said to me, "That was Senator Lyndon Johnson." And And he s a i d
  • minutes of conversation with him and had my picture taken with him. Frankly, I was rather disappointed that I didn't get to speak with him longer, but, of course, I understood that he was very busy and very burdened, and I remember that I felt very
  • for almost an hour. Secretary Freeman. that he was there." The President said, It turned out that it was "Well, I'm sorry, I didn't know Well, in any case he really seemed to enjoy the conversation and I certainly did, too. And he was very encouraging
  • . Danish You see, for Bulgarian you have to learn a different alphabet, and Bulgarian is a Slavic tongue, and this was quite new for me. But with Danish I really learned enough Danish that I could carry on a conversation in Danish after about a year