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- Biographical information; set up lab in Woods Hole then Los Alamos, 1944; Oppenheimer in charge; first test a surprising shockwave; believed bomb would end war and save American lives; Fulbright Grant and Guggenheim grant to Oxford, 1954; to…
- Clark Clifford; Leo Beebe; briefing to cabinet; Secretary Wirtz and McNamara; cabinet meetings; Congressional legislative process; Henry Ford; Paul Austin; 3/31 announcement; effects of diminished Presidential power; Stewart Udall; working…
- 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…
- LBJ's early interest in urban problems; the U-2 affair; LBJ and contact lenses; 1960 campaign and Democratic convention; LBJ-JFK transition; Pierre Salinger leaves the White House staff; JFK, LBJ, and support for big-city mayors; surtax issue;…
- LBJ's intellectual powers; his sources of advice; Abe Fortas; White's brief assignment as liaison in the counternarcotics effort; named special counsel in 1965; acting on the CAB's international air cases; the airlines' influence…
- Edwin Johnson's use of a helicopter in the 1948 U.S. Senate campaign in Colorado; the work of Ed Johnson, Robert Kerr and LBJ on oil and natural gas legislation; the power of the southern and western states in the Senate in the 1950s; Ed…
- Service with LBJ in the House and Senate; characterization of LBJ's leadership qualities in the Senate; comparison of LBJ to Senators Knowland and Dirksen; LBJ's timing in bringing bills to the floor; recollections of specific bills and…
- Biographical information; history of U.S. activities in South Vietnam; assignment to Vietnam; Korea; Kumsong salient; Mike O’Daniel; MAAG in Vietnam; 1955 relations with the French; Edward Lansdale; early political-military situation; religious…