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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Task Force; Edward Lansdale; August 24 cable; Averell Harriman; Roger Hilsman; Joseph Mendenhall; Ambassador Frederick Nolting (Vietnam); JFK assassination; LBJ; Vietnam; General Paul Harkins; Joint Chiefs of Staff; military reports from Vietnam;…
- Circumstances of becoming associated with the War on Poverty Task Force; early organization; duties; need for coordination of the program; decision-making; naming VISTA program; pressure from departments; LBJ’s interest; philosophies on dealing…
- Biographical information; CIA in Vietnam and Indochina; structure of the CIA; Bay of Pigs; the “secret war†in Laos; disputes on the role of the CIA; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow mission to Vietnam; “How to Lose a War;†debate over Diem;…
- Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964;…
- Biographical information; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ as a teen; Rebekah Baines Johnson; high school in Johnson City; teachers’ state meet; trip to California, 1925; Tom Martin.
- Escalation of the Vietnam War; Gulf of Tonkin incident; inadequacies in advice given to the President; Ed Gullion episode; XYZ Affair; UN and U Thant; Bundy-Dobrynin conversation, fall of 1965; A-B Theory proposal; Glassboro; Averell Harriman and…
- President LBJ’s relations with the press and Louchheim’s efforts to improve such relations; Louchheims work in State Dept.’s Community Advisory Service 1964-1966; encouraging foreign service employees to go on domestic talk circuits; foreign…
- Biographical information; Tom Mann; LBJ’s working relationship with Under Secretaries; coordination of Bureau of Economic Affairs; staffing; interagency cooperation and coordination; concept of country team; cooperation of American business firms…