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Lasker:

Yes. was very, very hot. The next night, Halston gave a wonderful fashion show at a restaurant, where it was very picturesque and very dramatic. Very well done. Halston has just redesigned the clothes for the Braniff Air Lines staffs, and I must say the clothes were a great improvement over the Puccis that we used to have.

Q:

Yes. They were something.

Lasker:

They were terrible. Then the next night, the Sunday night, there was a large dinner in the garden of a hotel, and Harding Lawrence and Mary and I sat with Kissinger and his wife and my sister and several other people at dinner, and I had a chance to talk to Kissinger, which I was really unprepared for. To talk to Kissinger, well, you really have to be prepared in his field. I was not really prepared, but I enjoyed it.

Q:

Was he relaxed on that occasion?

Lasker:

Yes, he looked wonderful. In the late winter and early spring --

Q:

Now, where did you stay? Do the Lawrences have a house down there?

Lasker:

They have a house, but I stayed at a place called -- Las Brian. I had a beautiful, beautiful villa really, and Mrs. Johnson was in with me, and all her Secret Service, and the only trouble was that I had a beautiful bathroom, and





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