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- [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ and the…
- First meeting LBJ in 1958; forming the Austin Foreign Policy Club with George Hoffman and Horace Busby; a visit to the Ranch about 1958; refusing an appointment as general counsel to the army; surprise appointment as chairman of the Administrative…
- Timmes' work as advisor in Korea 1956-1958 and Vietnam in the early 1960s; problems facing American advisors in Vietnam, such as a lack of familiarity with the Vietnamese language, culture, and military training; the threat of insurgency in…
- Biographical information; reacting to LBJ nomination for vice presidency in 1960; LBJ seeks to retain influence in the Senate in 1961; Pell-JFK relationship; LBJ-JFK relationship; LBJ and the Eastern Establishment; recommends German policy to LBJ;…
- Life at the Dodge Hotel; LBJ as secretary to Congressman Kleberg; Arthur Perry as secretary to Senator Connally; LBJ early participation in state campaigns; working conditions in Washington, social life, diet, etc.; LBJ a bundle of nervous energy,…
- Biographical information; 1948 Senate campaign; 1960 campaign; federal judgeship appointment; VP nomination at the 1952 convention; swearing-in of LBJ; funeral of JFK; meetings with LBJ; appointment as member of U.S. National Commission of UNESCO
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ in the Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Sub-Committee; Kem Resolution; activities in the Senate; amendment to Kerr-Mills Bill; Saltonstall-Kennedy Act; Senator Hayden; Smithsonian…
- Biographical information; Wattenberg’s publishing and writing career; Richard M. Scammon; meeting Bill Moyers and LBJ; being hired as a speechwriter; speechwriting process in the LBJ administration; LBJ’s young staff; working on speeches with…
- Biographical information; first coverage of LBJ in 1946; personal evaluations of various Texas Capitol Press reporters; Stuart Long; reporters' preference for candidates at the time; LBJ's 1948 campaign for Senate; the helicopter; on the…
- The Sequoia; LBJ's assessment of Nixon; LBJ's comments on Martin Luther King; working on a tax surcharge speech on the Sequoia; staff members wanting access to the Sequoia for personal use; Camp David; visiting the Ranch; LBJ's office…