I remember one time when my father visited me at Georgetown. He arranged for us to go to dinner with Janey and the Senator at a restaurant on Calvert Street, which I believed was called the Talleyrand. I not sure of the date but I would guess sometime in early 1966 or late 1965.
At dinner, we got into a fierce debate about President Johnson and Vietnam. The Senator and I both defended the President and said that we believed he should be supported because he had access to better intelligence than was being currently shared with the public. Janey and my dad thought that argument was baloney and said so, they were both adamantly opposed to the war and said that we were being led down a presidential primrose path.
We all know how that turned out even as it echoes to today.
Gerald McGowan
Ambassador to Portugal in the Clinton Administration
Arlington, VA
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