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- Biographical information; First meeting with LBJ; first impressions of LBJ; establishment of National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities; effects of Vietnam War; not close to LBJ; controversy over Meredith Wilson; no connection with the White…
- Career history; early advance work; meeting W. Marvin Watson; meeting LBJ and getting advice on how to be a good employee; working on the Whistle Stop Tour; LBJ’s ability to size people up and communicate effectively; LBJ staffs’ youth; LBJ…
- Comparison of service as Executive Director for the U.S., International Monetary Fund in JFK and LBJ administrations; LBJ policy to draw eastern bloc states of communist countries into IMF; duties of IMF position; role and actions of "Deming…
- 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…
- Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department and…
- Biographical information; CAB appointment; Northeastern Airlines decisions; air congestion and stacking over airports; role as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation; contact with Vice President Johnson; maritime strike; establishment of…
- Solidarity Day, June 19, 1968; Solidarity Day chairmen Bayard Rustin and, later, Sterling Tucker; Dean Rusk's son, David Rusk, and his work on Solidarity Day; estimating the number of people expected for the Solidarity Day event; speeches by…
- Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio…
- Biographical information; Background to joining the Department of Commerce; Circumstances that led to his selection as the first Acting Secretary; disadvantages of being “acting;†idea of merging the Department of Labor and Commerce into the…
- [For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.