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- 1969x
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- How Hobby met LBJ; the history of the Houston Post’s involvement in LBJ’s career; Hobby’s appointment as director of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps; Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Dwight Eisenhower; Hobby’s appointment to the…
- Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952;…
- Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief;…
- The complex Democratic two-camp division in the 1959-1960 campaign; being confronted by Kennedy about his alliance; Rauh’s version of the Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson party choice for President and Vice-President; Rauh’s disappointment over JFK’…
- Biographical information; McGeorge Bundy; William Bundy; Robert Komer; Vietnam; Bien Hoa; service on high-level review committee on Vietnam; Pleiku incident; Honolulu Conference; Ky; bombing halt; Harriman; Wilson; J. Blair Seaborn mission, 1964;…
- Biographical information; Community Action; LBJ and the poverty program; Sargent Shriver; the Yarmolinsky episode; Baker's responsibilities; the Employment Service; Head Start Program; OEO's mission and future; Legal Services program; 1967…
- Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese that, as a…
- Kennedy family attitude toward LBJ; Kennedy staff; discussions of staffing pattern for the White House; 1964 campaign; Republican National Convention, 1964; Walter Jenkins; Vietnam issue in the campaign; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; LBJ’s inheriting…
- The Truth in Packaging bill; need for a means of easily comparing products; package sizes and shapes; Esther Peterson; the soap and detergent lobby; Herb Hollomon; compromising to pass the Truth in Packaging bill; the Revenue Act of 1968; a ten…
- Biographical information; first recollections of LBJ; Charlie Marsh; early impressions of LBJ; supported LBJ in the 1948 campaign; LBJ won Senate Minority Leadership over Lister Hill; LBJ didn’t support Adlai Stevenson adequately; strained…