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- Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the tableâ€; portraying…
- Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio…
- Biographical information; Background to joining the Department of Commerce; Circumstances that led to his selection as the first Acting Secretary; disadvantages of being “acting;†idea of merging the Department of Labor and Commerce into the…
- [For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.
- 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…
- Biographical information; gaining employment with the NYA; staff; advisory boards; NYA-WPA relationship; Harry Drought; student programs; visitors; staff meetings; Gibb Gilchrist; LBJ's abilities and activities; chapel at North Texas State…
- Biographical information; War on Poverty task force; rural conservation centers; Job Corps vs. CCC; rural anti-poverty program land reform; migratory farm work; task force meetings; maximum feasible participation; OEO legislation; SWAFCA (Southwest…
- Detailed account of U.S. participation in Vietnam
- National Park Service, 1928-1964; CCC; New Deal; LBJ State Park; National Capital Planning Commission
- LBJ and the Majority Leadership and various Senate activities, 1955; committee assignments; LBJ and Drew Pearson; LBJ and the oil industry; foreign aid; LBJ and organized labor; Paul Butler; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ's heart attack; Whitney…