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Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 2 (II), 6/7/1984, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a phone you could pick up, and it would ring immediately, and he would answer it, because he knew whose phone it was. There wasn't any such thing as an emergency, at least from our side. Now on Juanita Roberts' side they may have had the right to walk
  • support for civil rights legislation; 1965 legislation topics; the possibility that Robert Kennedy would be asked to run for the vice presidency; Wilbur Mills; LBJ visiting President Harry Truman; Homer Thornberry's and James Coleman's appointments; LBJ's
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • with LBJ; doing LBJ’s makeup; LBJ giving to a poor family and the Catholic church in Stonewall; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys and Hubert Humphrey; LBJ’s interest in the media (TV, ticker tape, newspapers) and sensitivity to the media; diversity
Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 4 (IV), 3/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • telling him that if you did certain things, that we could win. [William] Westmoreland and [Robert] McNamara and [Walt] Rostow and everybody that advised him on Vietnam were telling him that if you did certain military things, you could force them
  • ; the decision to not call up the reserves to fight in Vietnam; December 1965 bombing pause and negotiations; "hawks" and "doves" advising LBJ, such as Robert McNamara and George Ball; Arthur Goldberg; the Immigration Bill of 1965; meetings betweeen Cliff Carter