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- Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Senator Kerr; LBJ for President in 1956; Earle Clements; Senator from Kentucky; Wallace from Alabama; JFK; Al Gore; Frank Clement of Tennessee; Estes Kefauver; civil rights; Governor Faubus of Arkansas; Fulbright; Lester Maddox…
- Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;†Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press…
- Building of LBJ Library; Heath named Swedish Ambassador in March, confirmed April 1967; Russell Tribunal; three groups in Sweden: hard-core ant-Americans, Communists, pro-Americans; race and Vietnam both issues in Sweden; experiences of Tanzanian…
- Roche’s career advancements in politics; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys, McNamara, Bundy, Valenti, Moyers, Rostow and others; his involvement in Vietnam-related issues; personal evaluation of may official personnel and the effectiveness of…
- LBJ’s personal style and diplomacy in interviews and in informal public appearances; reactions of reporters to LBJ’s unpredictable schedules; Cuban Missile Crisis involvement; role as VP; personal enmity with Robert Kennedy; relations with press…
- How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment…
- Libya and its effect on the Middle East crisis; Wheelus Air Force Base and U.S. military bases in Turkey; declining U.S. military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean; meeting with LBJ after the JFK assassination; writing a letter to Saudi Arabia…
- Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the…
- Military biography; flights with LBJ when Majority Leader, VP, President and as permanent pilot; appointment in July 1965 as military aide to LBJ; military aides for White House social events; operations of presidential flights; communications on…
- Biographical information; how Komer came to work for the Central Intelligence Group (later the CIA); working for the National Security Council at the White House; the role of the vice-president; meeting LBJ; discussing foreign policy regarding India…