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- Biographical information; met LBJ in 1945 at dinner with Lady Bird; in 1955 saw him at Tommy's funeral; saw Lady Bird at family affairs as an old friend
- How Krimer came to work for the State Department as an interpreter in 1963; biographical information; Krimer's World War II experience; Krimer's first work interpreting for LBJ; Krimer's early impression of LBJ; traveling to Germany…
- The Welhausen school in Cotulla where LBJ taught; LBJ organizing baseball and volleyball teams at the Welhausen school; Sam Houston Johnson; LBJ's lifestyle and personality while he was in Cotulla; how LBJ was received as principal of the…
- Foreign policy during the Dwight Eisenhower administration; Robert Taft and the Hill-Burton Act; partisanship in the Senate during the Eisenhower administration; the Bricker Amendment; support for organized labor in southern states; separation of…
- Job duties for the Free World Assistance (FWA); LBJ’s support of the FWA; requesting the involvement of other countries in aid to Vietnam; 1965 Pleiku incident; public relations speaking engagements about Vietnam in the U.S. and Europe; the use of…
- McNamara; Generals Wheeler, Green and Westmoreland; TET Offensive; Muskie; Goldwater; Waggoner Carr; Fulbright’s relationship with LBJ; Madam Chenault; Dirksen’s power in the Senate; LBJ less insulated; LBJ’s interest in the Senate after…
- Biographical information; Federal Aviation Act; FAA; contact with LBJ; SST program; formation of Department of Transportation; Halaby’s departure from FAA; Henry Gonzales; impressions of LBJ.
- LBJ; War on Poverty; Title I; Community Action; OEO; Model Cities; Head Start; food assistance; administration of programs; VISTA
- Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections
- LBJ’s response to the Detroit riots and race problem; McNamara’s move from Defense Dept. to the World Banks; Robert Kennedy’s and the “doves†in the Senate; assessment of LBJ and conclusion that he was a bitter man; Kennedy’s decision to…