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COLLECTION
- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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SUBJECT
- Great Societyx
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- How Collier met LBJ at Sam Houston High School; Cliff Carter; LBJ
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical…
- Biographical information; 13 years in DC; disillusioned with LBJ after he became President; Great Society Program to haunt us for years: it awarded indolence; LBJ a politician, not a statesman
- Employment history; organization and operation of the Democratic Study Group; support of the Great Society program; attending bill signing ceremonies; accepting position with the OEO; Sargent Shriver; OEO staff members; problems in Congressional…
- Political background; LBJ's support of poverty program in Detroit; use of phrase "The Great Society" and how it began; role of Public Officials Advisory Committee; Detroit Freedom March with MLK in 1963; creation of HUD; Model City…
- First meeting with LBJ; LBJ’s relationship to Rayburn; Carl Vinson and FDR; LBJ in the House; Lady Bird; Civil Rights Bill; LBJ’s relationship with Humphrey, Truman, Eisenhower and the Kennedy’s; LBJ’s opinion of career military people; 1956…
- Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the…
- LBJ’s participation in the elections of 1952 and 1956; LBJ turning over election activities to Stewart Udall; Partens work as a consultant to Udall; LBJ’s skills as an administrator; Vietnam; LBJ’s decision ont to run for re-election; Great…
- Great Society; OEO; HUD; Medicare; educational and veterans legislation; Brookings Institution