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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
  • he walked into that room I sensed he was overwhelmed by the immensity of the office and was quite docile and withdrawn and overwhelmed by the President, who took the initiative immediately and started the conversation going and never let up
  • 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