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- September 1969x
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TIME PERIOD
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's…
- 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;…
- White House-State Department relationship on foreign policy; Vietnam; bombing; bureaucratic machinery; opposition to the war; leaks.
- Background information about self, How she came to work for Johnson and the first week on the job.
- Symington’s limited contact with LBJ after 1960; relationship between LBJ and RFK; 1964 campaign; the Poverty Program; Dave Hackett; how Symington became the Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and his work to…
- JFK and Vietnam; events leading up to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Congress and Vietnam; personal observations on Vietnam; bombing and bombing halts; various peace missions and conferences; letter to Ho Chi Minh; the “Wise Men;†plans for peace…
- Updates from trip to France. Mentions Lynda, flowers and fruit trees in France