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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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DATE RANGE
- 1977x
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- LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s…
- Biographical information; how Haselton joined LBJ's staff in 1953; Christmas shopping with LBJ; Haselton's duties as part of LBJ's Washington D.C. staff and what it was like to work for LBJ; LBJ's persuasive and intuitive nature…
- 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign
- Biographical information; Roy Miller; Richard Kleberg; Little Congress; congressional duties; Bonus March; Al Smith; LBJ as Kleberg’s secretary; LBJ as president.
- Boggs' earliest memories of the Johnsons in 1941; LBJ's World War II military service; LBJ's 1948 Senate election; socializing with the Johnsons and Sam Rayburn; Boggs' and Rayburn's interaction during the 1960 presidential…
- LBJ’s speech class and debate team at Central High School in Houston; LBJ being action-oriented; LBJ’s work with, and loyalty to, Richard Kleberg; Roy Miller; Senator Alvin Wirtz; Little Congress; LBJ’s short time in law school; Maury Maverick…
- LBJ's 1958 interview with Paul Ringler of the Milwaukee Journal; LBJ's practice of making telephone calls while people were in his office; Senator LBJ's ability to get information from people on the telephone; LBJ's tactics to…
- Early association with Johnsons; LBJ at Southwest Texas State Teachers' College; LBJ as debate coach; Alvin Wirtz; secretary to Kleberg; Maury Maverick; Al Smith; redistricting Blanco County
- Biographical information; Jesse Jones; Charles Marshall; Alvin Wirtz; LCAR; LBJ's personality; war years; LBJ and business; vice presidency; presidency; Vietnam; the Great Society; education; retirement; Lady Bird Johnson
- Advancing LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; Laitin’s falling out with LBJ; Bob Fleming as Deputy Press Secretary; trip to Mexico with LBJ; Christmas trip to Rome; Colonel James Swindal; trying to be anonymous in Rome while advancing LBJ’s arrival;…