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- Jordan’s impressions/recollections of Senator Richard Russell; long hours worked by Senators Russell and LBJ; Jordan’s impression of LBJ as a 'very lofty' person; Senator Russell’s opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Russell’…
- Biographical information; Bane Committee membership; Health Professions Act; AMA limits number of doctors; Surgeon General’s Report on Nursing; Health Professionals Education Assistance Act; NDEA; passing legislation; Krebiozin; Medicare hearings…
- How he came to Washington; LBJ and Little Congress; LBJ as House doorman when Secretary to Congressman Kelberg; “Fishbait†as Miller’s nickname; dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas; Sam Rayburn and his relationship with LBJ…
- White House operations; advance trips; working for Marvin Watson and President Johnson; congressional liaison
- Capron's work on the Council of Economic Advisers in 1963; research and plans to address poverty issues in the Kennedy Administration; Capron's involvement in a Saturday lunch group that studied poverty issues and developed related program…
- Informing Vice-President LBJ of international affairs; announcing that the U.S. would be out of Vietnam by 1965; Sullivan’s appointment and work as chairman of Interagency Task Force on Vietnam; contingency planning to get North Vietnamese to…
- 1941, 1948, 1954, 1960 and 1964 campaigns; Tarrant County politics; 1956 Texas Democratic fight; relationship of LBJ to local political groups
- Professional background; Jordan’s two trips to Vietnam; report that the North Vietnamese threat was serious; Kennedy’s 1961-1963 decision to escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam; Jorden’s belief that Kennedy would have followed LBJ course in…
- How Jorden got into foreign policy government service from journalism; going to Vietnam to assess the situation in 1961 and the resulting white paper; Jorden’s Berlin Viability Plan and trip to Germany; Averell Harriman; working group for…