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- Biographical information; meeting with LBJ in 1960; wrote speeches for JFK; Moyers’ operation; Task Force on Urban Affairs; urban crisis; concept of the Great Society; urban problems given greater dimension under LBJ; uniqueness of task forces;…
- 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…
- Biographical information; Assistant Secretary appointment; primary duties; Troika; tax surcharge; freedom to express opinion; economic forecasts; Federal Reserve Board; Wilbur Mills; President's Advisory Committee on Labor-Management Relations…
- Biographical information; approach and success as Ohio State University president; first acquaintance with Sargent Shriver; circumstances of working with Job Corps planning task force; reason for his selection; various other members; degree of…
- Biographical information; early support of and work toward a transportation department; recollections of Najeeb Halaby; LBJ assumes presidency; Alan Boyd and others involved in development of DOT; opposition to DOT by FAA and McKee; Dean's…
- Intelligence operations in Vietnam; Ngo Dinh Nhu; French influence; Diem; North to South infiltration; social and economic regeneration; Americans in Vietnam in 1959; MAAG; land reform; strategic hamlet program; argoville program; Buddhists; the…
- Article in FOREIGN AFFAIRS; Wisemen’s meetings; no military plan for victory in Vietnam; San Antonio formula; divided opinion regarding Vietnam among cabinet members; task force to study sending additional troops to Vietnam; RFK-Sorenson…
- Garcia’s family history; interaction with LBJ at the Welhausen school in Cotulla; LBJ’s return to Cotulla during the presidency; individuals who worked in the Cotulla school; LBJ speaking Spanish; racial relations in Cotulla; LBJ’s…
- Appointment as ambassador by LBJ; Guam Conference, 1967; impressions of Nguyen Van Thieu and Nguyen Cao Ky; Vietnam's presidential election campaign in 1967; religious factions; advice to Thieu; recommendation for U.S. to close Viet Cong's…