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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; LBJ's legislative talents; generosity; LBJ's support of Diem; 1961 Vietnam trip; India stop; camel driver incident in Pakistan; LBJ's relationship with Richard Russell; LBJ's…
- Impressions of LBJ; Khrushchev's departure and the explosion of the first Chinese communist nuclear device; attending NSC meetings; the Sino-Soviet split; field experience in Taiwan as it related to Southeast Asia; patriotism and dedications of…
- Biographical information; involvement with the 1941 LBJ campaign; LBJ’s speaking style; LBJ’s personality; W. Lee O’Daniel; FDR; early days of KTBC; becoming station manager; Lady Bird; LBJ’s involvement with KTBC; CBS network affiliation;…
- Professional background; Jordan’s two trips to Vietnam; report that the North Vietnamese threat was serious; Kennedy’s 1961-1963 decision to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Jorden’s belief that Kennedy would have followed LBJ course in…
- Interstate Commerce Commission problem with a railroad merger and Alan Boyd; Ramsey Clark’s appeal and LBJ’s view of the case; LBJ’s enthusiasm; changing LBJ’s mind; LBJ’s naps; trips with LBJ; advance work; stopping at Cam Ranh Bay;…
- Met LBJ as a delegate when LBJ was Senate Majority Leader; October 1963 attack on JFK for sending helicopter pilots as advisers in Vietnam; deception practiced through; Gruening the first Senator to publicly oppose the War in Vietnam; Tonkin…
- LBJ's Texas office; work with constituents; LBJ's relationship with staff members and Senate colleagues; LBJ's powers of persuasion; legislation
- Architect of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill firm; appointment to Commission on Fine Arts, 1963; Hirshhorn Museum; Johnson's interest in the arts; planning of Johnson Library; day at the Ranch; Truman Library; UT budget decisions; impressions of…
- Biographical information; David Ladd; J. Herbert Holloman; Secretary Hodges; Bill Eaton; appointment as Commissioner; morale problems within the department; minority hiring; new facilities; international law; need for international system of…
- Laitin’s career history and how he went to work in the government; how Laitin became George Reedy’s Assistant Press Secretary; meeting LBJ; Mac Kilduff; Laitin’s first press briefing; George Reedy and his departure as press secretary; Lillian…