Biographical information; reacting to LBJ nomination for vice presidency in 1960; LBJ seeks to retain influence in the Senate in 1961; Pell-JFK relationship; LBJ-JFK relationship; LBJ and the Eastern Establishment; recommends German policy to LBJ; the High Speed Railroad Transportation Act; JFK and LBJ compared on foreign policy; congressional White House briefings characterized; doubt that LBJ moved as he should have in peace initiatives; LBJ and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the antiwar senators; the ABM; the Bobby Baker case; Pell secretly makes contact with the North Vietnamese in Paris.
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Oral history transcript, Claiborne Pell, interview 1 (I), 2/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny), LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-pellc-19690227-1-74-232