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- Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;†duties at Department…
- Luft’s career; 1932 meeting with farm leaders in Kansas; Congressman Floyd Breeding; John A. Schnittker; Hatch Act; appointed by Freeman; appraisal of Freeman; outline of general policy; crop insurance; funding; legislative drafting; staff; racial…
- Nixon’s assessment of LBJ in the late 1950’s; JFK’s selection of LBJ as a running mate; LBJ’s failure to understand or relate to the press; attempts to manipulate the press; press’ attitude toward LBJ; Vice-Presidential trip to India and…
- Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution…
- 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…
- Further recollections of events during the 1948 Senate race including campaign organization; methods and issues during the campaign; Forth Worth convention; aftermath of the election
- Ambassador to Brazil under JFK and LBJ; Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs; U.S. Coordinator for Alliance for Progress, 1967; 1940s and 1950s Mutual Security Agency; Atomic Energy Commission, 1946; Bernard Baruch; Marshall Plan…
- Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief;…
- Biographical information; Community Action; LBJ and the poverty program; Sargent Shriver; the Yarmolinsky episode; Baker's responsibilities; the Employment Service; Head Start Program; OEO's mission and future; Legal Services program; 1967…
- LBJ's visit to New Orleans with Louisiana Governor John McKeithen; LBJ's relationships with Mexicans; White House press conferences and how they changed in the television era; LBJ's use of television; LBJ's response to civil…