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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- LBJ's attempts at negotiation with the USSR and North Vietnam; LBJ's treatment of Hubert Humphrey in the final months of LBJ's administration; Humphrey's personality; LBJ's decision to not attend the Democratic National…
- Biographical information; participation on Walt Rostow’s Policy Planning Council from 1962-1965; impressions of LBJ as a personal diplomat; characterization of LBJ as a person and as President; deGualle’s decision regarding the devaluation of…
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ in the Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Sub-Committee; Kem Resolution; activities in the Senate; amendment to Kerr-Mills Bill; Saltonstall-Kennedy Act; Senator Hayden; Smithsonian…
- Contacts with LBJ as VP; LBJ and civil rights legislation;LBJ's involvement with the downfall of Joseph McCarthy; HHH's position on Vietnam during 1968 campaign; RFK; Dallek's comments on Richard Nixon's involvement in the 1968…
- Biographical information; a problem with overcrowding at Lackland Air Force Base; Vice President LBJ, Bobby Troutman, and Programs for Progress; details of the TFX F-111/General Dynamics issue; Senator Scoop Jackson and the McClellan committee; JFK…
- Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans'…
- Johnson as Congressman, Senator and Congressional Secretary
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ; Board of Education meetings; Richard Russell; Will Rogers, Jr.; recollections of LBJ as congressman; Albert Thomas; 1948 election; Mike Mansfield; Robert Kerr; Mike Monroney; Clint Anderson;…
- Biographical information; naval affairs subcommittee; Elk Hills Naval Petroleum Reserve; shipyards; trip to Europe, 1945; Carl Vinson; committee work; reports
- LBJ as majority leader; LBJ's management of committee assignments (the "Johnson Rule"); LBJ's single-mindedness in pursuing legislative goals; LBJ as vice president inadvertently left out of discussions on occasion; RFK-LBJ…