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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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DATE RANGE
- July 1969x
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- Detailed recollections of LBJ as President; reflections on his role as Majority Leader and VP; LBJ and Rusk’s personal and professional relationship; LBJ, RFK and certain Kennedy staff members; LBJ and foreign leaders; the Tuesday Lunch; LBJ’s…
- Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W.…
- Biographical information; NSC; JFK’s Administration; briefing LBJ while VP; space program; LBJ’s relationship with JFK; LBJ and foreign affairs; organization of NSC operations; Senior Interdepartmental Group; Tuesday luncheons; McGeorge Bundy;…
- Biographical information; Huey Long and scandals, suicides, indictments, 1939; 30 years of service in the U.S. Congress; Armed Services Committee; 1945 trip with Naval Affairs Committee and LBJ; represented 8th Naval District; lost belief in LBJ…
- Family political history; early recollections of the Johnsons; campaigning in 1952 and 1960 for/with his father, Stuart Symington; biographical information; 1960 convention and their belief that Stuart Symington would be asked to run for VP; LBJ’s…
- Biographical information; American G.I. Forum; discrimination; reinterment of Felix Longoria; meetings with LBJ; campaigning for Stevenson with LBJ; LBJ’s decision not to run; 1960 campaign; Mexican-American organizations; ambassador to U.N.;…
- [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; Holcomb’s support of LBJ; LBJ’s staff; civil rights; 1960 campaign; JFK-LBJ relationship; Catholic issue in Texas; JFK assassination; appointments to committees and…
- Biographical and labor movement background; how he met LBJ; LBJ’s position on labor issues; Keenan’s opposition to LBJ as Vice Presidential nominee in 1960; Keenan’s total support of JFK; Keenan’s support of LBJ during the 1964 campaign;…
- Biographical information; knew LBJ as majority leader; Housing Committee, a sub-committee of Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate; staff director Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 1965; Earle Clements; Kentucky Senator Symington…