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“He’s Giving Me Lots of Problems”

 

Photo credit: Yoichi Okamoto

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Concerned that Senator Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy [D–New York] would criticize his foreign policy during a tour of Latin America, President Johnson turned to former president Dwight D. Eisenhower for help and proposed that Eisenhower’s brother, Milton S. Eisenhower, be dispatched to head off Kennedy’s attacks.

 

Date:
August 27, 1965
Topic:
RFK, Latin America, Dominican Republic
Location
Mansion
Conversation
WH6508-12-8660

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