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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Biographical information; early support of and work toward a transportation department; recollections of Najeeb Halaby; LBJ assumes presidency; Alan Boyd and others involved in development of DOT; opposition to DOT by FAA and McKee; Dean's…
- Meeting LBJ in 1936; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; the role of the Michigan delegation in shaping the platform; LBJ's record on civil rights an impediment to nomination; Leonard Woodcock; LBJ as a candidate in Michigan;…
- How Saunders came to work for the CIA in 1956; job duties and how Saunders came to work for the National Security Council in 1961; the process of presidential decision-making and the role of the NSC under different presidents; preparation for…
- Observations from 1939-1940 on LBJ’s staff members and Alvin Wirtz; Bascom Giles; Maury Maverick; Sam Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Charles Marsh; FDR; Jesse Jones; George Brown; related issues and events
- Biographical information; University of Texas; campus politics; National Youth Administration; 1941 Senate race; speakers bureau; war years; 1946 congressional race
- Safe Streets Act; Law Enforcement Assistance Office; strike force concept; organized crime section; Secret Service; counterfeiting; tunnel vision problem; FBI; “Cosa Nostra;†electronic surveillance; Title III of Omnibus Crime Control Act; Right…
- Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-…
- [Description is for all three Katzenbach interviews] LBJ's focus on military waste while on Preparedness Subcommittee; LBJ's concern with constitutional authority for his powers as vice president; LBJ and the PCEEO; Space Committee; JFK…
- First impressions of LBJ; JFK and LBJ; JFK and the White House staff; LBJ as VP; LBJ on foreign aid; LBJ Berlin speech, 1961; LBJ on foreign policy pre-presidency; LBJ’s first State of the Union message; Vietnam; CIAP; Latin America; White House…