How Vietnam influenced budget requests during the war; how LBJ's decisions were affected by all the Vietnam-related pressures on him; the LBJ to Nixon transition; wage and price controls; rationing rumors. Oral history attached to memorial tributes by James Tobin, Joseph A. Pechman, George L. Perry, Hobart Rowen, Walter W. Heller, William Fellner, Paul A. Samuelson, Charles L. Schulze, Bruce K. MacLaury, Statements from Friends and newspaper commentary.
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