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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…
- LBJ and Senate activities, 1957; Middle East problems; disarmament issue; open curtain proposal; USIA; J. Edgar Hoover; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Little Rock crisis; Senators Walter George and Richard Russell; Sputnik; space hearings; Johnson…
- Biographical information; meetings with LBJ; BPA; confirmation; cabinet meetings; telephone conversation with LBJ regarding the riot in DC; Park Police and DC riot; March on the Pentagon; Resurrection City permit; closing down Resurrection City;…
- Biographical information; White House detail in 1953; physical aptitude tests; qualifications changes; Atlanta field office, 1958-1960; Vice Presidential detail in 1961; prevention of possible incidents; checking packages; special cases in crowds;…
- Visitors during LBJ's hospitalization after appendix surgery in 1937; LBJ's efforts to befriend political opponents, such as C. N. Avery and Polk Shelton; LBJ meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's trip to…
- Biographical information; set up lab in Woods Hole then Los Alamos, 1944; Oppenheimer in charge; first test a surprising shockwave; believed bomb would end war and save American lives; Fulbright Grant and Guggenheim grant to Oxford, 1954; to…
- Clark Clifford; Leo Beebe; briefing to cabinet; Secretary Wirtz and McNamara; cabinet meetings; Congressional legislative process; Henry Ford; Paul Austin; 3/31 announcement; effects of diminished Presidential power; Stewart Udall; working…
- Impressions of LBJ; Khrushchev's departure and the explosion of the first Chinese communist nuclear device; attending NSC meetings; the Sino-Soviet split; field experience in Taiwan as it related to Southeast Asia; patriotism and dedications of…
- LBJ's early interest in urban problems; the U-2 affair; LBJ and contact lenses; 1960 campaign and Democratic convention; LBJ-JFK transition; Pierre Salinger leaves the White House staff; JFK, LBJ, and support for big-city mayors; surtax issue;…
- LBJ's intellectual powers; his sources of advice; Abe Fortas; White's brief assignment as liaison in the counternarcotics effort; named special counsel in 1965; acting on the CAB's international air cases; the airlines' influence…