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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…
- Biographical information; Treasury Department; IRS; War Production Board; Marshall Plan; Cold War; Joe McCarthy; Director of Export Policy staff; Chip Bohlen; Harold Stassen; Admiral Walter S. DeLany; Senator O'Connor; Senator McCarthy; O'…
- 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…
- Biographical information; the 1948 campaign; campaigning for Harold Stassen; 1959 contact with LBJ on behalf of the banking industry; impressions of LBJ and his staff; supporting LBJ in 1960; Texas delegation surprised LBJ accepted vice-presidential…
- Beginning work with LBJ; LBJ's temper; LBJ's personal struggle with "liberal" and "conservative" labels; Bobby Baker; problems with McCarthy; Drew Pearson's effort to blackmail LBJ into objecting the seating of…
- Biographical information; Georgetown Oil Mill; M.F. Smith; American Legion; Tax Collector
- Knowlton's military background; working in the office of Secretary of the General Staff, Harold K. Johnson, in the mid-1960s; Knowlton joining Joe Califano's staff when Califano was special assistant to the secretary and, later, deputy…
- LBJ's interests in Sputnik and civil rights; activities at the LBJ Ranch the night of the Sputnik launch; Corcoran's relationship with FDR; the 1936 Minimum Wage Bill; Corcoran's preference for a career in law rather than politics;…