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- 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;…
- Stevens' involvement in entertainers that were invited to the White House; how Stevens became Special Assistant on the Arts; Robert Fleming's support in getting Howard Worth "Judge" Smith to support an arts council; John…
- Biographical information; BOB job; liquidation of war industries; use of BOB by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; Major General Wilton Persons; Sherman Adams; Jack Martin; Bryce Harlow; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; Hatch Act; problem of civil…
- Millenson's work for Jacob Javits and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare from 1949-1959; how Millenson became aware of LBJ as Senate majority leader; staff organization in the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare; how committee reports…
- Mary Lasker's influence as a lobbyist for health legislation; alcoholism-related legislation introduced by Jacob Javits; Partnerships in Health Act; the Senate's ability to reallocate funds without increasing authorization; Javits'…
- The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and its amendments; equitable distribution of ESEA funds among public and private schools; Millenson's involvement in a committee report regarding ESEA; conflict regarding whether funding…
- Contacts with LBJ; Rule 22; 1957 Civil Rights Act; JFK’s civil rights stand; LBJ as VP selection; NAACP; LBJ’s interest in civil rights as VP; impressions about the Senegal trip; assessment of JFK’s actions on civil rights legislation; 1963…
- The Civil Rights Commission; Storey’s work on a state commission to investigate the JFK assassination; interaction with the Warren Commission; Earl Warren investigating the site of the assassination; Jack Ruby’s sanity; Rudolph Hess’s sanity…
- Biographical information; no personal knowledge of his father's relationship with LBJ; LBJ working with Taft Sr, on committee appointments; difference between JFK and LBJ's Administrations; 1964 Ohio race; 1968 election; Foreign Affairs…
- LBJ in Senate; Tidelands Bill; Housing Act of 1955; minimum wage; 1955 Tax Bill; Land Bank; LBJ techniques of persuasion; Alaska and Hawaii statehood bills; LBJ and Richard Russell; LBJ's presidency