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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- Selection of the team to go to Paris to negotiate with North Vietnam; Averell Harriman; Cyrus Vance; Philip Habib; organizing the trip to Paris; failure to make serious progress in Paris; debates regarding “the shape of the tableâ€; portraying…
- Newsletter published by the Friends of the LBJ Library. For more about the Friends, including membership information, please see the LBJ Library website…
- Stevenson’s personal habits; Stevenson’s humor; Stevenson’s interest in his ranch and hunting; Stevenson’s opinion of FDR; Murphey’s later involvement in political affairs; comparison of LBJ and Stevenson as ranchers.
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1948; Assistant to Executive Secretary of the AFL, Austin in 1950; 17 months in Korea; AFL and CIO merger in 1957; strained relations with LBJ; appointment by George Meany as Assistant Secretary of Labor then…
- Family political history; early recollections of the Johnsons; campaigning in 1952 and 1960 for/with his father, Stuart Symington; biographical information; 1960 convention and their belief that Stuart Symington would be asked to run for VP; LBJ’s…
- How Buford met LBJ; how Buford went to work for Anheuser-Busch; support for Franklin Roosevelt and how Buford met Sam Rayburn; LBJ's conservatism in the early 1940s; Anheuser-Busch business relations with KTBC; a Washington D.C. party the…
- Communist attempts to control Quemoy, Matsu, and Taiwan; Jimmy Carter granting diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic of China in 1978; Chinese and Russian bargaining methods; criticism of Chinese and Russian relationships with the…
- How Judd decided to become a medical missionary; Judd's family background; Judd's early experience in China; the nature of communism; Judd's experience with malaria; communist propaganda techniques and Judd's struggle to argue…
- Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter…