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- Biographical information; met LBJ in Austin while NYA Administrator; social and political contacts with LBJ beginning in the late 1930s; LBJ
- Meeting LBJ in 1955; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; Abell's father-in-law Senator Earle Clement's career; LBJ trying to do favors for his colleagues; adjourning Congress for the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles…
- Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/…
- Biographical information; how Elson came to work for Carl Hayden; Hayden's office staff and how he trained them; Elson working for Hayden again after serving in the military; Hayden's strengths; Elson's efforts to write a report on…
- How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for…
- McNamara’s first contact with LBJ in 1960; assessment of Johnson’s personality and abilities; McNamara’s assessment of successes and failures of Defense Department while he was Secretary; relationship of Defense and State Departments; Congress…
- Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the…
- Biographical information and his work at the Department of Defense with the military pay system, the draft, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW); problems in HEW management; Gorham's and his staff's duties; evaluation…
- [Description is for all three Katzenbach interviews] LBJ's focus on military waste while on Preparedness Subcommittee; LBJ's concern with constitutional authority for his powers as vice president; LBJ and the PCEEO; Space Committee; JFK…
- 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…