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TIME PERIOD
- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- Working on the War on Poverty Task Force; JFK’s plans for “Widening Participation in Prosperityâ€; Economic Opportunity Bill; land reform proposal; extension service; urban vs. rural poverty; lack of support for rural communities; division in…
- 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…
- Graham Martin; question of origin of the insurgency; Laos and the Laos Accords; General Trapnell; Averell Harriman; Pop Buell; division of American opinion on Diem; Buddhist troubles; the immolations; press corps; coup that overthrew Diem; Henry…
- Appointment of Lodge as ambassador; Lodge's policy; President Ngo Dinh Diem; Diem's Catholicism; William C. Truehart; Deim's family relationships; nature of Dunn's job; Lodge and the press; Earl Young and Long An story; General…
- Lady Bird Johnson's first impressions of Fidel Castro; Hester Beall Provenson's public speaking course; the Johnsons' 30th Place home in 1959; early impressions of Jacqueline Kennedy; hosting a lunch for the wives of new senators; Sam…
- Composition of the Policy Committee; Rayburn’s decision not to serve as chairman of the Democratic National Convention; Paul Butler and his role; liberals and the Democratic National Committee; LBJ’s lack of commitment to his candidacy for the…
- Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief;…
- Optimism in the LBJ Administration going into the 89th Congress in 1964 with a large Democratic majority; Medicare and education as legislative priorities; the powerful alliance of Republicans and southern Democrats; O'Brien's awareness of…
- Medicare bill history and Mills’ support of it; legislative support for the Medicare bill; increased hospital costs and doctors’ fees; Social Security benefits; LBJ’s support of Medicare; changes in Medicare bill during legislative process;…
- Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and…