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- Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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DATE RANGE
- 1981x
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- First contact with LBJ; LBJ's 1941 Senate race in East Texas; circumstances of Sheppard's release from the army; LBJ's intervention for Sheppard in other areas; Big Inch pipelines; Carl Estes; LBJ and the oil companies; 1948 campaign…
- Biographical information; CIA in Vietnam and Indochina; structure of the CIA; Bay of Pigs; the “secret war†in Laos; disputes on the role of the CIA; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow mission to Vietnam; “How to Lose a War;†debate over Diem;…
- Biographical information; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ as a teen; Rebekah Baines Johnson; high school in Johnson City; teachers’ state meet; trip to California, 1925; Tom Martin.
- Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest…
- Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San…
- Biographical information; approach and success as Ohio State University president; first acquaintance with Sargent Shriver; circumstances of working with Job Corps planning task force; reason for his selection; various other members; degree of…
- Biographical information; 1957 trip to Vietnam; General Sam Williams; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow report; intelligence; Lionel McGarr; coordination; Diem coup; Harkins and Lodge; KATUSAs; Westmoreland; State Department; bombing campaign; Taylorâ…
- Biographical information; long involvement with and extensive work on Vietnam; first duties in Saigon; captured documents; geographical regionalism in Vietnam; infiltration; armed struggle and political struggle; impressions of Diem; the…
- A January 1945 dinner for Grover Sellers at the Johnsons' home; Franklin Roosevelt's 1945 inauguration; the relationship between Senator Alvin Wirtz and Secretary Harold Ickes; the Johnsons' relationship with the Henry Wallace family…