Initiation of the Peace Corps with Bill Moyers and Sargent Shriver; LBJ’s attitude toward, and involvement with, the Peace Corps; work as LBJ’s junior military Aide while LBJ was Vice-president; LBJ’s relationship as vice-president to JFK and Kennedy’s staff; Diem’s assassination; Vietnam; trips to New York and Benelux region; LBJ as president; transition after assassination of JFK; the 1964 campaign; civil rights meeting with black leaders; LBJ’s ethics and relationship with staff; Walter Jenkins; Bill Moyers; George Reedy; Bobby Baker
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
Citation
Oral history transcript, Richard H. Nelson, interview 1 (I), 7/20/1978, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed September 1, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-nelsonr-19780720-1-80-65