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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Origin of Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Life; LBJ's interest; Opportunity Homestead proposal and its objectives; extending War on Poverty into rural areas; Rural Community Development Service; problems of rural poor in cities; inadequacy…
- [For interviews 1 and 2] First impressions of LBJ; LBJ's visits to Kentucky Derby; the McCarthy censure; LBJ's powers of persuasion; LBJ's speaking engagements for Democratic candidates; 1960 campaign; how LBJ became VP candidate;…
- Working on the War on Poverty Task Force; JFK’s plans for “Widening Participation in Prosperityâ€; Economic Opportunity Bill; land reform proposal; extension service; urban vs. rural poverty; lack of support for rural communities; division in…
- Biographical information; LBJ's Naval Commission; Naval Affairs Committee; LBJ military service overseas; LBJ and Sam Rayburn; LBJ and Forrestal; LBJ and John Connally; Board of Visitors of the Naval Academy; LBJ investigations of Navy…
- Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf; Pleiku; bombing program; peace negotiations
- Biographical information; Wattenberg’s publishing and writing career; Richard M. Scammon; meeting Bill Moyers and LBJ; being hired as a speechwriter; speechwriting process in the LBJ administration; LBJ’s young staff; working on speeches with…
- Biographical information; investigation of the returns in Jim Wells County of the run-off between Coke Stevenson and LBJ; Stevenson’s campaign style; Stevenson as governor; political machine in South Texas (Parr Machine); Manuel Ramon, County…
- Biographical information; LBJ in the Senate; Senate legislative issues, 1952-1960; LBJ's relationships with other Senators
- Intelligence operations in Vietnam; Ngo Dinh Nhu; French influence; Diem; North to South infiltration; social and economic regeneration; Americans in Vietnam in 1959; MAAG; land reform; strategic hamlet program; argoville program; Buddhists; the…