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- 1969x
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- LBJ’s staffs; George Reedy; LBJ’s power of persuasion; LBJ and the Senate; LBJ and civil rights; the 1960 presidential nomination; decision to accept the VP nomination; 1960 campaign and Rowe’s role in it; falling out between LBJ and Rowe;…
- 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…
- 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 information; first meeting LBJ; social relationship; selection clothes for Lady Bird; inaugural clothes; Lady Bird as a dutiful and cost conscious wife; 1965 inaugural festivities; Mrs. Angier Biddle; Lady Bird’s image; Women’s…
- Experiences working for LBJ during the late 1950s, especially in matters of legislation, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1957; Defense Department matters
- Biographical information; early contact with LBJ; Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs; East-West Center; Washington riots; Foreign policy implications of education and cultural exchange; Mutual Education…
- Criticism of LBJ’s domestic programs and Vietnam War credibility gap; polls; DNC; Vietnam settlement; appraisal of LBJ; relationship with Lady Bird.
- Biographical information; Claire Booth Luce; 1944, 1960 and 1968 campaigns; Women
- Okun’s background; work on the Council of Economic Advisors; how staff worked together to set up budgetary requests; comparison of Dillon’s and Heller’s views of budgetary items; “Okun’s Lawâ€; 1964 tax reform; dealing with the Federal…
- White House-State Department relationship on foreign policy; Vietnam; bombing; bureaucratic machinery; opposition to the war; leaks.