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- Educational and professional background; work with the 1964 Task Force on Poverty under leadership of Sargent Shriver; concept of community action; Shriver’s management style in Peace Corps, task force and OEO; funding of Community Action Agency;…
- Briefing Senator Robert Kennedy before his 1965 trip to Latin America; Peace Corps and OEO staffs’ opposition to Vietnam War, 1966- ; original purpose of U.S. intervention in Dominican Republic; Mankiewicz leaving the Peace Corps to become…
- LBJ’s response to the Detroit riots and race problem; McNamara’s move from Defense Dept. to the World Banks; Robert Kennedy’s and the “doves†in the Senate; assessment of LBJ and conclusion that he was a bitter man; Kennedy’s decision to…
- First awareness of LBJ; administrator of Marshall Plan; UN Development Program; Joe McCarthy attack; free trade; representative to UN assembly; Bunche mission; civil liberties; campaign expenditures; foreign aid; International Peace Corps; advisory…
- Biographical information; Greigg's congressional campaign in 1964; the Feed-Grains program; Democratic Party support for Greigg's campaigns in 1964 and 1966; how Greigg gained a seat on the House Agriculture Committee; a vote involving…
- The Congo crisis of June 1964; how the Russians got credit for settling the India-Pakistan crisis of 1964 and U.S. involvement in the crisis; how LBJ obtained and evaluated information; U.S. military aid to Pakistan; the Three Week War; the…
- Drafting messages; road trips; campus visits; J. Califano; Ed Levi; consulting the academic community; University of Illinois; Northwestern University; Harvard-MIT "syndrome;" remedial programs; Kingman Brewster and Yale; Vietnam's…
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Cecil Evans; college years; garage apartment; secretary to Kleburg; college sports; Black Stars; White Stars; LBJ blackballed; 1928 Democratic National Convention; debate team; Cotulla; boarding;…
- Final months of LBJ Administration; RFK Memorial Stadium