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- 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;…
- The formation of the Kerner Commission and Ginsburg's invitation to be its executive director; LBJ's belief that the 1967 race riots had been part of a conspiracy; Ginsburg's relationship with Abe Fortas; Ginsburg's first…
- Task Force; Edward Lansdale; August 24 cable; Averell Harriman; Roger Hilsman; Joseph Mendenhall; Ambassador Frederick Nolting (Vietnam); JFK assassination; LBJ; Vietnam; General Paul Harkins; Joint Chiefs of Staff; military reports from Vietnam;…
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; contrast between JFK and LBJ; LBJ’s temper; Alaska earthquake; Senator Anderson; White House Task Force on Education; transformation of the Office of Education; Atomic Energy Conference; LBJ incident in…
- How Whittington came to work for LBJ following President Kennedy's assassination; Whittington's duties; LBJ's secretaries' rotating schedules; traveling with LBJ to the Ranch and Austin; Whittington as the first African American…
- Biographical information; McCone Commission; Watts riots; role of deputy attorney general; judicial appointments; Abe Fortas; Crime Commission; Crime Control Act; Newark riot; Detroit riots; contingency plans; MLK assassination; Washington D.C. and…
- Involvement with the French in Vietnam; problems in the 1950s; General Sam Williams; counterinsurgency; the Special Forces; Bay of Pigs; observations and proposals after trips to Southeast Asia; impressions of JFK; special Counterinsurgency Group;…
- Biographical information; departed government in 1964 over policy in Vietnam; JFK, Harriman, Forrestal and Hilsman were all for a political approach while LBJ was for a military approach; LBJ: “It’s the only war we’ve got;†Rostow and…
- Biographical information; Lehan's work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Sputnik; leaving Ramel-Wooldridge to start Space Electronics Corporation; consulting for government agencies and committees; how Lehan came to work for the newly…