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- Contacts with LBJ; success of Eisenhower relationship with Congress in foreign policy; personal contact between Secretary Dulles and LBJ; AID bill; estimation of LBJ; formidable experience of talking to LBJ; Macomber never brought good news;…
- Circumstances of assignment to Vietnam; attitude toward Diem; Edward Lansdale; meeting with LBJ; Taylor-Rostow mission; the Thompson mission; Trueheart Commission; strategic hamlet program; meetings with Diem; Mike Mansfield visit; Buddhists; period…
- Recent appointment history; meeting LBJ at the 1961 West Point graduation; going to Vietnam—when, why; meeting with the Johnsons and staying in the White House; becoming Chief of Staff; LBJ’s decision not to run; Vietnam.
- Deason's family history; Deason's uncle Charles' work around the Stockdale, Texas, area; Deason's parents and siblings; Deason's educational background; how Deason became a teacher and, later, an attorney; how Deason went to…
- Biographical information; how Carey came to work for the Bureau of the Budget; John Steelman; post-war work and staff of Bureau of the Budget; cooperation between government and universities in scientific research; National Science Foundation Act;…
- Agency and department-level reaction to LBJ’s use of task forces to change policy-making; information leaking out of the task force system; the effect of the task force operation on the Bureau of the Budget; William Cannon; relationship between…
- General Harkins and his relationship with Taylor and Lodge; David Nes and pacification; assessment of ambassadors; National Libertarian Front; weaknesses of South Vietnamese forces; Westmoreland’s command arrangements; strong points of the U.S.…
- Biographical information; W. Kerr Scott; Brown v. Board of Education; Harold Cooley; the Southern Manifesto; Walter George and Herman Talmadge; moderate stances among Senate leaders like LBJ; Benjamin Everett Jordan; Bobby Baker; how LBJ became…