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- 1969x
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- First knowledge of LBJ; Dr. Robert Weaver and Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune enthusiastic regarding LBJ; Mrs. Bethune and the NYA; friendship with Stuart Symington; LBJ getting building for Huston-Tillotson College; relationship with LBJ; 1957 Civil…
- Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies…
- Biographical information; reporting political, congressional and military affairs; 1960 and 1964 Democratic campaigns; Cuban Missile Crisis; Cy Vance; Robert McNamara; crises operations; defense directorates; public affairs
- 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…
- Relationship between Foster Dulles and LBJ; meeting LBJ; trying to establish trans-Atlantic nuclear force; going to the German government with a proposal for a MLF; LBJ’s understanding of, and congressional relations on, the trans-Atlantic nuclear…
- Abe Fortas; deterioration of Democratic Party machinery; John Bailey; prior knowledge of 3/31 announcement; Homer Thornberry; 1968 Democratic Convention; relationship with President eroded in 1968 over Vietnam; McNamara’s move to the World Bank.
- Biographical and educational background; Taylor’s relationship with Hubert Humphrey; getting involved in housing and HUD; how Taylor might have altered the Model Cities legislation; funding the Model Cities programs; coordination in the Model…
- How Wallace classified LBJ’s political stances from the Senate through Presidential periods; the 1960 Presidential campaign; the Birmingham demonstrations and Wallace’s discussion with Robert F. Kennedy regarding them; Wallace’s high regard…
- Biographical information; working for Price Daniel; Jacobsen’s personal political philosophy; 1940’s and 1950’s political climate in Texas; LBJ’s reputation as a congressman; LBJ’s early advisers and associates; law suit involving the…
- Department of Justice history and its role as legal advisor to the president through the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC); laws created in the executive branch, such as through executive order, presidential proclamations and executive agreements;…