- Stevenson’s personal habits; Stevenson’s humor; Stevenson’s interest in his ranch and hunting; Stevenson’s opinion of FDR; Murphey’s later involvement in political affairs; comparison of LBJ and Stevenson as ranchers.
- McCloskey's work in foreign service and as State Department spokesman; reporters; Vietnam; credibility gap; coordinating briefings with the White House and the Pentagon; new mission of the marines in 1965; withholding information from the press…
- Appointment of Lodge as ambassador; Lodge's policy; President Ngo Dinh Diem; Diem's Catholicism; William C. Truehart; Deim's family relationships; nature of Dunn's job; Lodge and the press; Earl Young and Long An story; General…
- Adams' work for the CIA in Vietnam in 1965; identifying the enemy in Vietnam; self-defense and secret self-defense militiamen in Vietnam; Adams' involvement in Special National Intelligence Estimate 14.3-67: altered statistics reporting…
- LBJ the rancher; the tidelands issue; Senate Preparedness Subcommittee investigation; Shivers takes control of Texas Democratic Party; Russell campaign for president
- Jack Valenti becoming President of the Motion Picture Association instead of Abram; MPA issues that concerned LBJ; integrationist vs. separationist civil rights movements; Berl Bernhard; A. Philip Randolph; problems at the White House Civil Rights…
- Jacobsen's early work for LBJ; protocol for entering LBJ's office; a trip to Camp David with LBJ; allowing LBJ to relax from the stress of his duties; Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., Abe Fortas, and Tom Mann in the Dominican Republic in…
- Flynn's experience flying for the Air Force after WWII; U.S. unprepared ness when Korean conflict began; code of conduct of American POWs in Vietnam; training of U.S. fighter pilots in Europe delivering nuclear and missile weapons; Cuban…
- 1958; Kennedy-Ives bill; Texas labor; Arthur Goldberg's concern about Senate Republican Policy Committee charges; federal aid to education; National Defense Education Act; Mike Mansfield's leadership abilities; Supreme Court bills; death…
- Circumstances of joining LBJ’s staff; duties in the Texas office; Arthur Perry; Walter Jenkins; office operation; LBJ and the Texas office; Lady Bird; transfer to the Majority Leader’s office; office staff; traveling with the Johnson’s;…