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- Laitin’s work related to the Pope’s visit to New York and meeting with LBJ; press coverage of LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; how LBJ liked to be positioned for photographs; Yoichi Okamoto; advancing trips to visit President Truman; how LBJ…
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NASA; Space Science Board; aeronautical industry; VP’s role in the space program; presidential advisory groups; Webb-McNamara agreement; lunar voyage; Axis Concept; Albert Thomas; “Space Age Management…
- LBJ's election to Congress in 1937 and Franklin Roosevelt's (FDR's) appreciation for his support in Texas; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee and FDR's feelings regarding the appointment; Roosevelt's…
- First meeting Lady Bird; worked for Esther Van Wagoner Tufty; her wedding; presentation of calf from LBJ and Rayburn to President Eisenhower; ready access; LBJ’s willingness to share credit with local Congressmen whenever a story broke; two real…
- First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson…
- Middle- and upper-class American fear and hostility toward the poor; closing Job Corps centers in 1968 due to budget cuts; formal evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity programs; comparison of Bill Haddad and Edgar May as head of the OEO…
- Duties of the press secretary; LBJ’s misunderstanding of the press; LBJ’s secrecy as president; press pool; travelling with LBJ; LBJ’s friendliness toward the press; Eric Goldman; resignation of Walter Jenkins.
- Biographical information; problems of blacks in colleges in the 1940s; appointment to FTC; association with LBJ after U.S. judgeship appointment; meetings and activities following assassination of MLK and related disturbances; work on Federal Jury…
- How Judd decided to become a medical missionary; Judd's family background; Judd's early experience in China; the nature of communism; Judd's experience with malaria; communist propaganda techniques and Judd's struggle to argue…