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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- LBJ's early interest in urban problems; the U-2 affair; LBJ and contact lenses; 1960 campaign and Democratic convention; LBJ-JFK transition; Pierre Salinger leaves the White House staff; JFK, LBJ, and support for big-city mayors; surtax issue;…
- LBJ's intellectual powers; his sources of advice; Abe Fortas; White's brief assignment as liaison in the counternarcotics effort; named special counsel in 1965; acting on the CAB's international air cases; the airlines' influence…
- Edwin Johnson's use of a helicopter in the 1948 U.S. Senate campaign in Colorado; the work of Ed Johnson, Robert Kerr and LBJ on oil and natural gas legislation; the power of the southern and western states in the Senate in the 1950s; Ed…
- Service with LBJ in the House and Senate; characterization of LBJ's leadership qualities in the Senate; comparison of LBJ to Senators Knowland and Dirksen; LBJ's timing in bringing bills to the floor; recollections of specific bills and…
- Biographical information; history of U.S. activities in South Vietnam; assignment to Vietnam; Korea; Kumsong salient; Mike O’Daniel; MAAG in Vietnam; 1955 relations with the French; Edward Lansdale; early political-military situation; religious…
- Further recollections of events during the 1948 Senate race including campaign organization; methods and issues during the campaign; Forth Worth convention; aftermath of the election
- Stavast's tactical reconnaissance pilot duties in Southeast Asia, starting in May 1967; restrictions in flying reconnaissance missions; night versus day missions; navigation and radar; Gerald Vananzi; plans to bomb communications system sites…
- Early work with LBJ and as executive assistant to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Don Cook; work on the Preparedness Committee; LBJ’s attitude toward professional military men; LBJ’s temper and lack of inter-personal skills; LBJ…