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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- McCloskey's work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press…
- Biographical information; Tennessee Valley Authority; Reconstruction Finance Corp; Robert LaFollette; Wendell Wilkie; Commonwealth and Southern Utility Group; Leland Olds; Adolph Berle; St. Lawrence Seaway Project; War Production Board; John Lord Oâ…
- Biographical information; Legislative Reference; BOB; legislation; speaking for the President; relationship with the White House; budget; budget cuts; contact with Wilbur Mills; directors of BOB; Troika/Quadriad; comparison of presidential…
- Biographical information; prosecuting White House sit-in demonstrators; Frank Reeves; Howard Reed; Ralph Roberts, clerk of the House, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; David Dellinger and the March on the Pentagon; "Murphy"…
- Capron's work on the Council of Economic Advisers in 1963; research and plans to address poverty issues in the Kennedy Administration; Capron's involvement in a Saturday lunch group that studied poverty issues and developed related program…
- First impressions of LBJ; LBJ as a Senator; Civil Rights Bill; White’s special access to LBJ; LBJ’s humor; White’s books; LBJ as VP; criticism of LBJ’s domestic programs and Vietnam War.
- Stoughton’s background and how he became involved in photography while serving in the Air Force in WWII; Stoughton’s newsreel camera business in the 1950’s; his work in the Army and as a space program photographer at Cape Canaveral;…
- Appointment to Naval Affairs Committee in 1936; how he met LBJ; trip to Central America to evaluate a second canal; war service; President Roosevelt and LBJ; LBJ as senate majority leader; LBJ
- Choosing the 1964 vice presidential candidate; LBJ’s secrecy; 1964 campaign and speeches; LBJ’s personality; Barry Goldwater; the $100 billion budget; credibility gap; Bobby Baker; LBJ’s humor; Gulf of Tonkin episode; Vietnam; misleading…