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- Oral historyx
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- Open conflicts between LBJ and Douglas; McCarthy censure; LBJ’s legislative skill; drafting the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; the influence HHH and LBJ had on each other; areas of cooperation between LBJ and Douglas; LBJ’s economic polices; truth in…
- The effect of the Vietnam war on future U.S. involvement in other countries; the success of the Military Assistance Program; the decision to commit U.S. forces in the Dominican Republic in May 1965; the June 1967 Arab-Israel War; the attack on the…
- The organization of the Department of Defense and its relationship to the president and his advisers in decision-making; delegation of authority within the Department of Defense; comparing Clark Clifford to Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense;…
- Biographical information; the duties of the deputy secretary of defense; how Nitze met LBJ; the issue of balancing deterrent and war fighting forces; maintaining an alliance among non-Communist countries; 1960 Department of Defense issues, such as…
- Milestones in U.S. relations with China from 1949 to 1968; U.S. policy toward Communist China in the 1960s; U.S. policy and involvement in Vietnam; the effectiveness of bombing in Vietnam; Nitze's views on the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August…
- LBJ borrows in order to attend college; LBJ settles his father's debts
- Biographical information; envoy to Luxembourg; 1960 campaign; Eleanor Roosevelt; selling her house to LBJ when he was VP; Democratic Women for Nixon in 1960; Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy; Democratic factions
- Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's…
- Lady Bird Johnson's first impressions of Fidel Castro; Hester Beall Provenson's public speaking course; the Johnsons' 30th Place home in 1959; early impressions of Jacqueline Kennedy; hosting a lunch for the wives of new senators; Sam…
- Graham Martin; question of origin of the insurgency; Laos and the Laos Accords; General Trapnell; Averell Harriman; Pop Buell; division of American opinion on Diem; Buddhist troubles; the immolations; press corps; coup that overthrew Diem; Henry…