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- Oral historyx
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- 1985x
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- McArthur's work for the Associated Press; the difference between working for a wire service and a daily/weekly publication; Mrs. Eva Kim McArthur's work as Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's secretary; Bunker's attitude toward…
- Biographical information; Vo Nguyen Giap in the 1930s; the development of nationalist parties and the Communist Party in North Vietnam; Diem's life after the Communists took over North Vietnam in 1945; Diem's opinion of communism and his…
- LBJ's VP trip to Senegal; Bill Moyers; John Rooney; May 1961 Asian trip: Saigon and Diem, Philippines and Marcos, Formosa, Bangkok, India and Pakistan; Dag Hammarskjold funeral in 1961; Beirut; Iran; Turkey; Cyprus; Greece; LBJ's paranoia…
- Wisner's career in the Foreign Service in the early 1960s; Wisner's duties in Vietnam upon his arrival in 1965; Agency for International Development [AID] work in Dinh Tuong province; organization of pacification efforts; Wisner's…
- O'Brien's discussion with Joseph Kennedy about the New Frontier program; leadership in the House of Representatives before and after Sam Rayburn's death; the Trade Expansion Act of 1962; a private-sector public-relations operation led…
- How Robinson came to write a book about LBJ; response to the book; how the Tet offensive and LBJ's 3/31/1968 announcement that he would not seek re-election affected the publishing of Robinson's book; the political atmosphere at Ohio State…
- O'Brien's and John F. Kennedy's (JFK) relationship with John Glenn; how Glenn's space success helped NASA; the role of a vice president and how well Lyndon Johnson (LBJ) fit it; JFK's staff members' opinion of LBJ after…
- Emotional involvement of journalists covering Vietnam; whether reporters reflected to perspectives of the publications for which they wrote; how transportation within Vietnam was arranged for reporters; how reporters decided what area to cover;…
- How Buford met LBJ; how Buford went to work for Anheuser-Busch; support for Franklin Roosevelt and how Buford met Sam Rayburn; LBJ's conservatism in the early 1940s; Anheuser-Busch business relations with KTBC; a Washington D.C. party the…