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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Biographical information; met LBJ during loss in first run for Senate, loss by 1,511 votes; LBJ’s manner in giving ‘the works;’ LBJ’s tendency toward secrecy; LBJ’s temper and ambition; landslide victory in 1948; six offices plus the ‘…
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ while working for Congressman Kleberg; LBJ’s relationship with FDR, Ickes, and Alvin Wirtz; George Brown; Sid Richardson; Bob Anderson; LBJ as a congressman; LBJ’s press relations; Bobby Baker; LBJ and Coke…
- Cairo; UAR; PL480 flood assistance; economic projects; Nasser; Sadat; Soviet position; PLO; AID; 1967 crisis; UNEF; Robert Anderson; Liberty incident; 1973 war
- The "Board of Education" room where Sam Rayburn and, later, LBJ and other members of the House met to socialize and discuss legislative strategy; Rather knowing where LBJ was at all times so she could contact him if necessary; Sam Houston…
- Abe Fortas; deterioration of Democratic Party machinery; John Bailey; prior knowledge of 3/31 announcement; Homer Thornberry; 1968 Democratic Convention; relationship with President eroded in 1968 over Vietnam; McNamara’s move to the World Bank.
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NASA; Space Science Board; aeronautical industry; VP’s role in the space program; presidential advisory groups; Webb-McNamara agreement; lunar voyage; Axis Concept; Albert Thomas; “Space Age Management…
- Biographical information; met LBJ in 1937 through Baines family tree research with LBJ’s mother; LBJ’s six years as Democratic Majority leader in Senate; JFK nomination; LBJ as VP; Heath as Ambassador to Sweden; as Chairman of UT Board of…
- Career history as a journalist; work on the Texas Judicial Council; the Texas state legislature in 1933; how the problems of education, poverty, prisons, social security, and the like have spanned decades; a government pension system; differences of…
- Senate campaign for LBJ and using the helicopter; work and campaign style; controversy over Hispanic soldier being buried at Arlington National Cemetery and subsequent legislative investigation; LBJ’s relationship with Herman and George Brown;…
- Working with Vice President Hubert Humphrey to develop his campaign platform before the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago; working on a Vietnam speech for Humphrey to give in Chicago; LBJ and Humphrey's views on Vietnam; consulting…