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- How Winters and LBJ met; Guy Maddox; LBJ's work for Winters' construction company; education as LBJ's priority; LBJ playing dominoes; hunting with LBJ; the construction of dams in the Hill Country area; Camp Wolters; how Winters…
- Evaluation of the situation in Vietnam in 1963; the problem with guessing how JFK would have responded to issues LBJ faced in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic; JFK's and LBJ's sensitivity to military opinion and the advice they were…
- Problems with Panama/U.S. relations in 1964; LBJ's interaction with Ambassador William Tapley Bennett and events leading up to U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic; LBJ's decision-making process during the Dominican Republic…
- [For interviews 1a and 1b] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; foreign policy problems of the 1960s; investigation of the Bay of Pigs; military representative to President; contacts with LBJ; role of Joint Chiefs; relationship with…
- 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…
- Foreign service career assignments: 1936 in the Pacific and later in Latin America; effect of Alliance for Progress in Ecuador; effect of Kennedy assassination on the Alliance; assignment as Ambassador to Venezuela; fishing agreement (12 mile limit…
- [For interviews 1a and 1b] Biographical information; first association with LBJ; foreign policy problems of the 1960s; investigation of the Bay of Pigs; military representative to President; contacts with LBJ; role of Joint Chiefs; relationship with…
- LBJ's opposition to the Disney amendment and other measures to raise the price of oil; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; Austin mayor, Tom Miller; LBJ's trip to Eruope at the end of WWII; LBJ's 1946 congressional…
- The "Board of Education" room where Sam Rayburn and, later, LBJ and other members of the House met to socialize and discuss legislative strategy; Rather knowing where LBJ was at all times so she could contact him if necessary; Sam Houston…
- Gulf of Tonkin; Brinks incident; attack on Pleiku; gradualism; Taylor’s assessment of turning points in the war in Vietnam