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- Appointment as Secretary; relationship with LBJ during Eisenhower administration; State Department Appropriation Bill and Foreign Aid Bill in 1959 and 1960; LBJ's role as VP; Cuban Missile Crisis; differences between LBJ and JFK; budget;…
- [For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ…
- Disputes within the military intelligence establishment about enemy order of battle; responsibility for estimates; problem of making body counts; serving as Chief of current intelligence and estimates; Sam Adams 1967 visit; mistreatment of prisoners…
- Difficulty in seeing LBJ's personality through his papers; LBJ's power in the Senate and ability to persuade people to support his ideas; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Russell's reluctance to serve on the…
- John Gronouski's appointment as ambassador to Poland after being U.S. postmaster general; the beautification stamp; a Post Office Department recruiting plan for college graduates; Civil Service regulations and hiring practices; a training…
- The genesis of the Heart, Cancer and Stroke Commission; Dr. Michael DeBakey; goals of funding national clinical research; influence of the American Medical Association and the National Institutes of Health; Dr. James Shannon; LBJ’s interest in the…
- LBJ as Vice-President; Cuban Missile Crisis; August 1964 telegram regarding Diem fall; Roger Hilsman; JFK assassination; DeGaulle and LBJ; LBJ's early presidency; LBJ and Vietnam; Ball's Vietnam memoranda to LBJ; Tonkin Gulf incident and…
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ; present relationship with LBJ; interest and work with handicap people; summary of advances in field of the handicapped; role of advisory committee and its effectiveness; assistance from Senator…