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- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NATO Parliamentarians Committee; LBJ’s praise of Hays; collaboration of Rayburn and LBJ in shaping legislation in the House; committed JFK delegate in 1960; LBJ as VP; friendship with President a…
- Biographical information; Sam Rayburn; Comptroller; career; Senator Couzens and Ford Auto Company; Roosevelt bank moratorium; commissioned as examiner; bank examination facets; FDIC; money deposits overseas; banking crisis; "Eurodollar;"…
- First acquaintance with Vietnam scene; General O'Daniel; Ed Lansdale; Diem in 1955; different characteristics of the Vietnam War; Saigon in the 1950s; reflections on various correspondents; American-French relations in the period; Ngo Dinh Diem…
- Meeting with LBJ; General Parsons; Bryce Harlow; comparison of Presidents; Arthur Larson; Sputnik, briefing during Eisenhower's illness; U-2 and Geneva Summit; missile gap; Dulles; Nixon's TR to South America; LBJ's TR to Berlin Wall…
- Visiting President Truman and a trip to the Truman Library; phones and photographers in the Truman home; lessons learned on a trip to Honolulu; why LBJ did not travel outside the US more often; incident involving LBJ purchasing a dead horse;…
- First meeting LBJ in 1958; forming the Austin Foreign Policy Club with George Hoffman and Horace Busby; a visit to the Ranch about 1958; refusing an appointment as general counsel to the army; surprise appointment as chairman of the Administrative…
- Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell…
- Biographical information; Wiley College; Dr. Melvin Tolson; CTJ and civil rights; LBJ is disappointed that Wright did not notice passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ complains that blacks are ungrateful to him; Robert Weaver, Roger Wilkins,…
- Tax surcharge; balancing the budget and six billion dollars in budget cuts, pressure from LBJ; budgetary process reform; George Mahon; work on the Ways and Means Committee; appropriations.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; Mrs. Paul Mellon; Lady Bird Johnson Park