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- Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections…
- The effort to reduce wholesale utility rates in a way that would benefit the consumer; jurisdiction and fairness of earnings issues; how often to inspect power companies between rate cuts; regulation to bring rates down but still allow for company…
- Biographical information; Naval career; Special Counsel to President Truman; formation of the Department of Defense; first association with LBJ; Taft-Hartley Act; member of the 1946 labor advisory group; 1948 campaign train; Truman’s relationship…
- Biographical information; involvement with Roosevelt's administration; newspapers' importance to the government; summary of politics in New York State when Roosevelt was governor; genesis of the New Deal; Harvard graduates in FDR's…
- Russell Long's support for LBJ's programs and how Long compared to Harry Byrd, Sr., as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; tax increases to help pay for the Vietnam War; Winston Prouty's and Vance Hartke's proposed…
- White House-State Department relationship on foreign policy; Vietnam; bombing; bureaucratic machinery; opposition to the war; leaks.
- O'Brien's swearing-in ceremony as a U.S. postmaster general in Hye, Texas; William Manchester's book Death of a President; Springfield, Massachusetts' O'Brien Day in November 1965; speculation that O'Brien would run for…
- [Description is for all three Katzenbach interviews] LBJ's focus on military waste while on Preparedness Subcommittee; LBJ's concern with constitutional authority for his powers as vice president; LBJ and the PCEEO; Space Committee; JFK…
- How Swidler met the Johnsons; LBJ's attitude toward oil and gas regulation while he was still a senator; Lee White, Swidler's successor as chairman of the Federal Power Commission (FPC); an incident regarding authorization of the…
- 1948 Senate election in Texas and subsequent investigation