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- Contact with LBJ in the 1940s; Democratic Advisory Council; Rayburn's role; Ralph Yarborough; 1956 state and national Democratic conventions and labor; CIO and Texas politics; Frankie Randolph; Texas Observer; committeeman/committeewoman…
- White House responsibilities; tourism; FRB guidelines; LBJ
- Adams' involvement in General William Westmoreland's libel suit against CBS following the airing of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception; joint chiefs' awareness of order-of-battle inaccuracies; North Vietnamese use of mines and…
- Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!;…
- Biographical information; CIA in Vietnam and Indochina; structure of the CIA; Bay of Pigs; the “secret war†in Laos; disputes on the role of the CIA; Edward Lansdale; Taylor-Rostow mission to Vietnam; “How to Lose a War;†debate over Diem;…
- Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief;…
- How General Albright came to work for LBJ; Colonel George J. McNally; telephone system and security; functions of the White House Communications Agency; the teleprompter; LBJ’s lighting and background requirements for public appearances; problems…
- Biographical information; Labor and Public Welfare Committee staff and their areas of expertise; Lister Hill's work as chair of the committee; bipartisanship on the committee; committee response to Great Society legislation, especially relating…