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- Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 as a recruiter of talented persons for government service; setting up the guidelines for executive branch presidential appointments; evaluating and recommending appointees; generating appointment…
- Jacobson's opinion of John Paul Vann; Vann's work for Agency for International Development (AID) in Vietnam and his death; Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) relations with the press, including Joseph Alsop, Don Oberdorfer, Peter…
- Newsletter published by the Friends of the LBJ Library. For more about the Friends, including membership information, please see the LBJ Library website…
- Activities during the summer of 1947 leading up to Luci Johnson's birth; riding on the Sequoia with Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and friends; LBJ's interest in national defense and U.S. relations with the Soviet Union; Luci's…
- White House responsibilities; tourism; FRB guidelines; LBJ
- Daily summaries of TV networks to LBJ; Bureau Chiefs set up TV control room at White House; Bill Moyers and Peter Benchley leaving the White House; Jack Valenti; monitored 11:00 to 1:00pm TV news shows for LBJ; LBJ believed Texans were resented;…
- Biographical information; reporting from Vietnam; press in the advisory war; Diem regime; correspondents’ activities; networks of sources and information; view of Vietnam; Buddhist-Catholic strife; Hoa My; rural-urban dichotomy; factions; Nguyen…
- JFK and Vietnam; events leading up to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution; Congress and Vietnam; personal observations on Vietnam; bombing and bombing halts; various peace missions and conferences; letter to Ho Chi Minh; the “Wise Men;†plans for peace…
- LBJ’s staffs; George Reedy; LBJ’s power of persuasion; LBJ and the Senate; LBJ and civil rights; the 1960 presidential nomination; decision to accept the VP nomination; 1960 campaign and Rowe’s role in it; falling out between LBJ and Rowe;…