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- 1969x
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- Outer spacex
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- [For interviews 1 and 2] Family relationship with LBJ; visits of LBJ to Weisl home; Preparedness Subcommittee after Sputnik launch; role as special counsel; Department of Defense bureaucracy; Eisenhower Administration; cabinet secretary; George…
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; LBJ’s decision to join the Navy; helping in Texas Congressional campaigns; 1948 Senate campaign; Weisl’s committees; LBJ’s interest in space; 1957 Civil Rights Act; 1960 and 1964 Presidential…
- LBJ's interests in Sputnik and civil rights; activities at the LBJ Ranch the night of the Sputnik launch; Corcoran's relationship with FDR; the 1936 Minimum Wage Bill; Corcoran's preference for a career in law rather than politics;…
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; 1960, 1964 Democratic conventions; association with LBJ during the vice presidency; NBC’s handling of the news after the JFK assassination; meetings with LBJ; credibility gap; Georgetown Press;…
- Sputnik; LBJ's attitude toward military and interest in space program; drafting the Space Act; Space Council activities; communication satellite; surpassing the Soviets; VP LBJ's attendance at Council meetings; LBJ father of the manned…
- Similarity between Anderson's and Johnson's early careers; Johnson as Whip and Majority leader; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; space program development; 1955 Johnson heart attack; Johnson as possible Presidential nominee; Ed Johnson; LBJ's…
- Biographical information; investigating subcommittee work; Carl Vinson; LBJ's view of the military; 1948 Senate election; Preparedness Subcommittee; Richard Russell; 1952 Democratic convention; 1957 civil rights legislation; space program
- LBJ's Senate office; Defense Preparedness Subcommittee; Senate Aeronautical and Space Science Committee; National Aeronautics and Space Council; NASA; development of space program