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Oral history transcript, Harold Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/17/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
Biographical information; Livermore Laboratories; LBJ relationship; space program; 1967 budget; anti-ballistic missile system; LBJ's White House staff; future weapons systems
Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker
Biographical information; not active in partisan politics; Indian food crisis; PL 480; self-help concept; differences with AID on emphasis of priority; operating under State Department's budget; improvement of Vietnamese agriculture; defoliants; work…
Oral history transcript, Richard R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
National Youth Administration; Aubrey Williams; LBJ
Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
LBJ's 1934 Georgetown Law School days; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress; Huey Long's address at Little Congress; LBJ's belief in loyalty - party, national, personal; constituents in his early career in Kleberg's office; LBJ's idea of professional…
Oral history transcript, Philip N. Brownstein, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Capitol Hill's reception of VA; first meeting with LBJ; formation of HUD; consumer orientation of FHA; original purposes of FHA; change in purpose; operation under spending limitation; loan processing charges; VA point…
Oral history transcript, David K.E. Bruce, interview 1 (I), 12/9/1971, by T.H. Baker
First acquaintance with LBJ; 1960 campaign; Jean Monnet; DeGaulle; Common Market; Wilson; MacMillan; MLF Force; Skybolt; Atlantic Naval Force; Rhodesian independence; Great British trade policy; assistance of Great Britain with VN settlement; Tonkin…
Oral history transcript, Joseph Bruno, interview 1 (I), 11/13/1968, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; how Bruno went to work for LBJ in 1960; Bruno's duties as a research assistant in LBJ's office; Bruno's work preparing LBJ's papers to be donated to a library in Texas; Walter Jenkins' and George Reedy's duties in LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Ashbrook P. Bryant, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1983, by Michael L. Gillette
Bryant's work on the Empire Ordnance investigation; Don Cook's work in the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the preparedness subcommittee; Bryant's meetings with LBJ; LBJ's night reading; the preparedness subcommittee's work related to…
Oral history transcript, C. Farris Bryant, interview 1 (I), 3/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz
Political career background; 1960 National Convention and presidential campaign; Cuban refugee problem in Florida; Bay of Pigs incident; 1964 Freedom Riders; Office of Emergency Planning; 1966 trip to Asia with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Zbigniew Brzezinski, interview 1 (I), 11/12/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan
Biographical information; contact with LBJ; Policy Planning Council; short-circuiting channels of communication; October 1966 trade speech; Ludwig Erhard; Harmel Exercise; Vietnam; foreign policy brain trust for Humphrey; Abe Fortas; Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, W. Evans Buchanan, interview 1 (I), 2/7/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Democratic politics; contacts with LBJ; campaign fund raising; Johnson's organization on the state level; low income housing
Oral history transcript, Raymond E. Buck, interview 1 (I), 5/27/1969, by David G. McComb
Relationship with LBJ in Congressman Kleberg's office in 1933; airline regulations; LBJ's election to Congress in 1937; Senate campaign in 1941 and 1948; 1956 Democratic Convention; 1960 campaign with JFK; influence of Lady Bird Johnson on LBJ's…
Oral history transcript, Anthony Buford, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1985, by Michael L. Gillette
How Buford met LBJ; how Buford went to work for Anheuser-Busch; support for Franklin Roosevelt and how Buford met Sam Rayburn; LBJ's conservatism in the early 1940s; Anheuser-Busch business relations with KTBC; a Washington D.C. party the Johnsons…
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Ted Gittinger
Biographical information; Vo Nguyen Giap in the 1930s; the development of nationalist parties and the Communist Party in North Vietnam; Diem's life after the Communists took over North Vietnam in 1945; Diem's opinion of communism and his political…
Oral history transcript, Bui Diem, interview 2 (II), 8/14/1986, by Ted Gittinger
The Elysee Accords in 1953; the North/South division of Vietnam and resulting changes in leadership; Ngo Dinh Diem's early work as the first president of South Vietnam; opposition to Diem by 1960; the Can Lao Party and Ngo Dinh Nhu; methods of…
Oral history transcript, J. Waddy Bullion, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1969, by David G. McComb
Biographical information; Bullion's involvement with the House Naval Affairs Committee's personnel subcommittee, which was chaired by LBJ; Bullion's involvement with the Johnson's income taxes; LBJ's efforts to ensure that his taxes were done…
