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Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 1 (I), 1/30/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • contact from that time on. B: Immediately, as of that very night. This was difficult for both of us, but obviously necessary. I met him at his request. I telephoned first that afternoon to say to him what 7 LBJ Presidential Library http
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 1, Nov. 1963 - Feb. 1964 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • ' : ·· ............ ·'.·:_; , \~_!_;:: ....· :~ ·'. A FEW WORDS WITH DE GAUq.E ALONE IN ·wH ICH I MERELY MENTIONE~ .:.:.. \~.·;:l ':C~ AT I HAD'- DISCUSSED THE CHINESE MATTER WITH COUVE. · · . . -, -:-.:~· :~ ·1llE CONVERSATiON HENT NO . FURTHER. LATER ON IN. CONVERSATIONS · , ?,'~. ~1·! I TH:. J:OXE J
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 19, January 19 - February 4, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • the dust Douglas Dillon has just telephone{ to say that he has the flu. I told him you might wish to call him in the nex t few days, and he said the operators w
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 8, January 1 - February 28, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • Oeo~so Ball to answer Adlal'e memorandum ot February 17 (Tab A} and hor• ta my own euggoatlon as to what you might eay to him 1f you wlah to telephone blm. ta the curreat eltoatlon. I do not tblnk auch a phone call l• urge11t. 1. Stevenson saggeeta
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 2, March 1-31, 1964 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • : ) The attached papers cover the Zanzibar problem and Dea.n Rusk and I / would like to talk with you about them on the telephone at your conveni~ )' (.l,N....; (: 1 ence on Monday. The one question which you may wish to decide today \ (. o-~, vd is whether you
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 9, March - April 14, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
  • conference todci:y. I also had very brief phone conversations with Frankel and Hightower from which nothing interesting developed. March 18. 1965 MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT SUBJECT-; Telephone aervlce at tbe .R anch 1. You have previously lodlcated both
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 18, January 1-18, 1966," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • , 1/30/95, tate Dept. UUt12et;le, By-.oJ.IQ'---' NARA,Date ,~- ,-,-1 THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Tuesday, January 18, 1966 12:40 P. M. MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT This is Gronouski 1 s flash report of his conversation with Foreign Minister Rapacki
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 17, November 20 - December 31, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)
  • ~: ; ._~ . ;·_·,·~"~::· ... :· .'"'.~ :to note ~ that ·.in a JtUle 1965 '.·conversation vi'th ·a US .official; Braga. . r~- · :::,,·~ ..": ''\.~· .~ . -,. :.0: __,~7.·~
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 14, September 1 - 22, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • plans for this weekend. If South Asia does not flare up badly, I would hope to take Mary to Martha's Vineyard early Friday and bring her back Tuesday morning. A friend has offered us the use of an isolated but telephone-equipped cottage there, and we
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 5, June 1-30, 1964," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • deecribea Novlkov aa a "tough baby," tremendously ambitious, not very popular, who might push his luck too far and head for a dramatic fall • . Therefore, he auggeats that your conversation with him be k,pt general and lnnocuou1. Ae the State Department
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 10, April 15 - May 31, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
  • . 12958, Sec. 3. 1/30195, S te ~ Bromley Smith THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON May 22, 1965 r VJ MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT I telephoned Bundy to ask him to rush his promised telegram so that it would be available during your Z p. m. meeting. Bundy
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview 3 (III), 3/19/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Bundy -- III -- 4 B: The telephone conversation? M: Yes. B: No. It was a very grown-up conversation. There was nothing all that--and the text will be there somewhere, I'm sure. But I don't remember
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 2, March 1-31, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • you do and do not wish discussed; you have the usual problem that, as qften as not -- at least in my three years of exposure -- you cannot be sure ahead of time what the principal topic of conversation is going to be. You can tell generally
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 7, October 1 - December 31, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • Dean Rusk telephoned to re-e.mpba:sbe hls strong recommendation that you really ahoald spend a few mlDutes with Bowles. I have done my beat with. Bowles and wlth the Department to explahl how buay you are, but we are dealing here wUh a former Under
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 16, October 15 - November 19, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)
  • , Birrenbach telephoned an old friend at Harvard to report that he had come to Washington resigned to discuss consultative machinery but concluded from his private conversations around town that the Germans would be able to get hardware~ When I asked whether
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 12, July, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • in conversations alread, reported. 011 Wednesday, July 7, I had my picture taken (or the 0 .March o( Time'' at the r equeat of the P reaa Office, and I talked to Phil Potter very brlefiy ou Vietnam. Tho· Coavereatio11 was entirely routine becauae it came before
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 7, October 1 - December 31, 1964 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • sent ia your·l'l&l'ne after our conversation thia morning: - - ,-qt:J.Ote attached telegram A and tele11ram B / TQP SECR~T (12/28/64) (McG / Pros and Cons of a reprisal raid against North Vietnamese/ barracks at Vit Thu Lu (Target 36) I
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 20, February 5 - 28, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • . In the light oi this direct message, I thoulJllt you might wish to send General Eisenhower a short note and I attach a possible ·draft. McG. B. Dear General Eisenhower: I have Juat been informed of your conversation with Andy Ooodpaater about Haaton
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 17, November 20 - December 31, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)
  • , Date 8- JS - J> t./ Authority McG. B. CJ j1 '41 ~' ~ I ; ) .. 9 December 1965 .~ MEMORANDUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH MEMBERS OF CONGRESS RELATING VIETNAM TO SOUTH I called but was unable to talk to the following men: Senator Lister
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 12, July, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • made on this group. McCloy stated he had this not from beer-drinking lobbyists but from first-rate people. The conversation occurred just before the news conference and I did not have time to find out just whom he was quoting. n, "'· McG. ($ , B
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 8, January 1 - February 28, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 10, April 15 - May 31, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
  • lasted for more than three hours. Various political and economic problems in the hemisphere were discussed in these conversations, and in particular the grave situation in the Dominican Republic. It was agreed in these interviews that with respect
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 11, June, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 9, March - April 14, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
  • today just how we wish to mesh our high cards against Co .m ·m unist concessions. But we will need to be in such a position soon, if only to exchange views with Quat. On this .m ore general point, we believe more exploratory conversation today
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 11, June, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 3 (Item)
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 15, September 23 - October 14, 1965 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)
  • . \ · Mc George Bundy cc: SEGRE'i? THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Thursday, October 14, 196 5 8:35 a.m. MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT This is Lodge's weekly report. We are puzzled by his conversation with Thieu - in the sense that we see no reason why
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 15, September 23 - October 14, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 5 (Item)
  • with Leonor Sullivan, because I am going to try her next. He reported that he had a very friendly conversation with her but made no real progress. The most they could do was agree to disagree, but Anderson emphasized that he told her ha would want to have her
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 6, July 1 - September 30, 1964 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [1 of 2] (Item)
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 19, January 19 - February 4, 1966 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [1 of 2] (Item)
  • . ~•- - February 4. 1966 Friday. 12:15 P.M MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT I think you will want to see Tommy Thompson's m.emorandumoof bis conversation with Dobrynin last night. He holds to the view he exp_rcaaed to me then -- that this is quite a routine expression
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 7, October 1 - December 31, 1964 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 2 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • shall explain to Lord Harlech that I am doing it at the direct request of the President. As I said on the telephone, I believe it would be helpful for you to say these things to the Prime Minister, although not on the basis of a direct Presidential
Folder, "[July 19, 1965 Jack Valenti's Meeting with Apostolic Delegate and Papal Nuncio]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 1 (Item)
  • ) Cloaed in accordance with reatrlctlona contained 1n the donor'• deed of 91ft. GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 17·721 ----, • ~iEMORANDlJM THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGT0:-1 July 2 0, 1965 12: 15 p.m. Tuesday MEMORANDUM OF CONVERSATION WITH ARCHBISHOP
Oral history transcript, McGeorge Bundy, interview S-I, 3/30/1993, by Robert Dallek (Item)
  • second-guess de Gaulle on the contents of a mano a mano conversation on the first day out is overstretching, even Lyndon. Anyway, at least that kind of "I'll show them" [attitude] is a part of it. It's not the only part, not the largest part
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 4, May 1-27, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • . I have no evidence that Kemal in fact was very important in President Kennedy's time, but I share Bob _Anderson's view that a private conversation with him before the Eshkol visit would be very valuable political insurance with Nasser and therefore
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 14, September 1 - 22, 1965 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 4 (Item)
  • has given Tshombe a very fair deal on their latest squabble. 4. Tom makes the additional suggestion that he might go through Singapore. He had a very friendly conversation with Prime Minister Lee some meek.s ago, and he would like to talk in a friendly
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 20, February 5 - 28, 1966 [2 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • /1 I would like to add my comments to Ambassador Sulliv~ •s- cable summary (attached) of my conversations with Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma in Vietiane, Laos. I found Prime Minister deeply concerned about increased Communist infiltration into Laos
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 3, April 1-30, 1964 [3 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • to press him, the best subject is probably the General's position on the neutralization of South Vietnam. I attach at Tab B Bohlen's account of his conversation with de Gaulle together with the telegram of instruction he was working from, and at Tab C
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 1, Nov. 1963 - Feb. 1964 [1 of 2]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • matter. · ·r I understand that tha President discussed it in a private meeting with the Prime Minister on Wednesday. There was a second conversation at lunch on Thursday at the British Embassy in which Erl~ and I joined. , ·.."1 :1 ·.1 J • I .~~ l
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 21, March, 1966 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [2 of 2] (Item)
  • detailing the conversations I had had with Senators Mansfield, Douglas and Symington, Speaker McCormack and Congressman Reuss. I also informed him that the President had ·asked that this subject be brought to his attention for connnents. Secretary McNamara
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 4, May 1-27, 1964 [1 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 1 (Item)
  • tank deal were quite dim (Tab F). ~( t) . ., .:... ~Y-y' , :~ -fo ,. rP·. t:> i l' ,~ S ~ ll'h ·U1 :·:.' h{{o \·' ~ (; d1 (>,r- t.~ l •jj·)\x..::." f(;~ D !A \(~, But as it so often happens in conversations with the Germans, Erhard permitte d
Folder, "McGeorge Bundy, Vol. 21, March, 1966 [2 of 3]," Memos to the President, NSF, Box 6 [2 of 2] (Item)