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- The John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration's relationship with Carl Vinson and other southern Democrats; funding for an aircraft project and Vinson's argument with a staff member over his decision to support JFK; the knowledge and influence…
- Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell…
- LBJ's election to Congress in 1937 and Franklin Roosevelt's (FDR's) appreciation for his support in Texas; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee and FDR's feelings regarding the appointment; Roosevelt's…
- Going to work for Senator Thomas Kuchel; presidential appointments from California during Dwight Eisenhower's administration; political factions in California in the 1930s and 1940s; Earl Warren's early law and political career; Kuchel…
- Knowlton's military background; working in the office of Secretary of the General Staff, Harold K. Johnson, in the mid-1960s; Knowlton joining Joe Califano's staff when Califano was special assistant to the secretary and, later, deputy…
- an overview of Jacobson's military career 1954-1975; Jacobson's opinion of Ed Lansdale, General John W. "Iron Mike" O'Daniel and General Samuel T. Williams; Williams' abilities as a diplomat in Vietnam; comparing…
- 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…
- 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…
- John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plan regarding primaries going into the 1960 Democratic National Convention; assigning JFK staffers to specific state delegations; JFK's decision to address the Texas delegation; JFK's decision to ask Lyndon…