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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1969-05-23 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Edwin L. Weisl, Jr., interview 2 (II), 5/23/1969 by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • --the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee--started because of the very panicky reaction throughout the country to the firing of the first Soviet space satellite, Sputnik I. At that time our space program was in its incipiency and it wasn't getting a great deal
  • ; problems with Interior Department; shift to Civil Division; Pure and Union Oil; critical of Ramsey Clark as Attorney General; LBJ’s difficulties with Establishment press; missile/satellite program investigation; LBJ’s neglect of functions as leader