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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- How the Federal Power Commission (FPC) became more difficult for individual congressmen to manipulate but more amenable to congressional control; dealing with the expiration of hydro and other licenses; Commissioner Howard Morgan's criticism…
- Career; White House personnel; press operation; transition difficulties; Vietnam negotiations; LBJ’s contemplation of not running for reelection in 1968.
- Biographical information; Contact with President Johnson; President's Committee on Marine Sciences, Resource and Engineering; Environmental Service Administration; Sea Lab III; travel as Under Secretary; Assistant Secretary position; impression…
- Business community's views of LBJ; financial burden of social programs; Chairman Martin; Arthur Krim; Medicare and Medicaid fight; voluntary balance of payments program; steel negotiations of 1965; Connor's disagreements with LBJ over tax…
- Details of political career and first contacts with LBJ when he was a Congressman; background of tidelands legislation; 1952 Senate race against Tom Connally; support of Eisenhower's presidential race; weekly meetings of Texas Congressional…
- Libya and its effect on the Middle East crisis; Wheelus Air Force Base and U.S. military bases in Turkey; declining U.S. military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean; meeting with LBJ after the JFK assassination; writing a letter to Saudi Arabia…
- Senate campaign for LBJ and using the helicopter; work and campaign style; controversy over Hispanic soldier being buried at Arlington National Cemetery and subsequent legislative investigation; LBJ’s relationship with Herman and George Brown;…
- Montague's involvement in Hop Tac; the intended cooperative nature of Hop Tac; why Hop Tac was unsuccessful; security as the first priority in village pacification; differences of opinion between Colonel Jasper Wilson, General William DePuy and…
- April riots; Washington riots; role of military troops; interest of foreign military groups in American example of dealing with riots; Resurrection City; 1968 Democratic Convention; involvement in inflation fights; LBJ’s relationship with William…
- Appointment of Lodge as ambassador; Lodge's policy; President Ngo Dinh Diem; Diem's Catholicism; William C. Truehart; Deim's family relationships; nature of Dunn's job; Lodge and the press; Earl Young and Long An story; General…