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- Further recollections of events during the 1948 Senate race including campaign organization; methods and issues during the campaign; Forth Worth convention; aftermath of the election
- Stavast's tactical reconnaissance pilot duties in Southeast Asia, starting in May 1967; restrictions in flying reconnaissance missions; night versus day missions; navigation and radar; Gerald Vananzi; plans to bomb communications system sites…
- Early work with LBJ and as executive assistant to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Don Cook; work on the Preparedness Committee; LBJ’s attitude toward professional military men; LBJ’s temper and lack of inter-personal skills; LBJ…
- Jacobson's opinion of John Paul Vann; Vann's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam and his death; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) relations with the press, including Joseph Alsop, Don Oberdorfer, Peter…
- Summary of army career; involvement in intelligence regarding Vietnam; replacing General McChristian in Saigon; differences in McChristian and Davidson; "the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Update;" Creighton Abrams; counterintelligence;…
- Boyd's political career, starting in the 1930s; how Boyd came to work for Sam Rayburn; LBJ's 1948 U.S. Senate election; the 1948 Texas Democratic Convention in Fort Worth and Coke Stevenson's defeat in the primary; Sam Rayburn's…
- Urban disorders of 1966 and 1967; assassination of MLK
- Reedy’s role as policy advisor while LBJ was Senator; airline machinists’ strike of 1966; influencing LBJ’s decisions; writing memos to LBJ; Richard Russell; Eugene Millikin; Sam Rayburn; what makes a good Senator; Millard Tyding’s loss to…
- Working with the Johnsons
- LBJ as majority leader; LBJ's management of committee assignments (the "Johnson Rule"); LBJ's single-mindedness in pursuing legislative goals; LBJ as vice president inadvertently left out of discussions on occasion; RFK-LBJ…