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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- Working with Senator LBJ; dealing with Vice President LBJ on space program and budget; JFK’s inexperience in the Senate; the JFK assassination; the tax reduction bill; working on the budget and LBJ’s involvement; LBJ’s interest in education…
- Early contact with LBJ during 1960 campaign; going to Vietnam for the first time; learning about Vietnam and gaining the confidence of the people there; deciphering the motivation of the officers that spoke to him; Homer Bigart; John Vann; John…
- Stevens' involvement in entertainers that were invited to the White House; how Stevens became Special Assistant on the Arts; Robert Fleming's support in getting Howard Worth "Judge" Smith to support an arts council; John…
- Biographical information; subcollege; college work; student population; faculty; LBJ; campus activities; campus politics; teaching school in Houston; 1937 Congressional election
- First awareness of LBJ; administrator of Marshall Plan; UN Development Program; Joe McCarthy attack; free trade; representative to UN assembly; Bunche mission; civil liberties; campaign expenditures; foreign aid; International Peace Corps; advisory…
- Personal opposition to official policy in Vietnam; National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam; SANE; MOBE; NCAC; role of television; counterculture; assignation attempt of Dellinger; travels to Vietnam; meeting with Ho Chi Minh
- Starting work for Marvin Watson; Jones’ work responsibilities; logging White House calls; LBJ cutting expenses; turning off the lights at the White House; reviewing FBI reports on prospective hires/appointees; LBJ’s desire to appear honest and…
- Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; tin smelter; agricultural issues; impressions of LBJ and his relationship with other Senatorial leaders
- Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful…
- Views on the duties of a Senate leader; circumstances of assuming office; 1959 speech relating views and reaction to speech; LBJ and committee assignments; opposition to depletion allowance; LBJ's support for Proxmire's re-election; 1957…