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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Biographical information; the 1960 convention; Russell urges LBJ not to accept the vice-presidential nomination; Ralph McGill; anecdote of the MLK funeral; LBJ and the Ashmore-Baggs visit to North Vietnam; LBJ asks Patterson to serve on the Civil…
- Charles Roberts article; Clifford’s doubts; TET offensive; personal doubts about the Vietnam commitment; LBJ didn’t like to hear opposition to the Vietnam policy; 3/22 luncheon meeting with LBJ; 20th parallel memorandum; State Department meeting…
- First meeting with LBJ in March, 1946; Ganson Purcell; James Rowe; Sam Rayburn; W. Averell Harriman; Truman’s anti-inflation program; General Counsel for AEC; Herbert Marks; Kenneth D. McKellar; Dr. Edward U. Condon; General McArthur; Richard…
- Biographical information; 1933 meeting with LBJ in Washington; LBJ’s relationship with Rayburn; LBJ’s relationship with Congress as President; 1965 hospital closing fight; Mrs. Thompson’s donation of $1 million to UT Medical School at…
- Allan's Shivers' political philosophy; Shivers' refusal to place Dwight Eisenhower on both the Democratic and Republican tickets in the 1952 presidential election in Texas; Shivers' supporters and detractors; Sandlin's…
- Studying health insurance issues in the 1950s and Wolkstein's plans to assist with related legislation in the early 1960s; JFK's support for health insurance legislation; Wilbur Mills' opposition to Medicare legislation; how Medicare…
- Meeting LBJ in 1937 and early interactions; John Connally; Jimmy Allred; Alvin Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; Sam Rayburn's influence on LBJ’s decision-making; roles of Allan Shivers and John Connally in the Democratic convention of 1956;…
- Thomas Jefferson Taylor’s work; the education of all three Taylor children; how Lady Bird got her nickname; childhood activities; Doris Odam Powell; the siblings’ inability to be together, due to circumstance; early impressions of LBJ; hunting…
- How Robinson came to write a book about LBJ; response to the book; how the Tet offensive and LBJ's 3/31/1968 announcement that he would not seek re-election affected the publishing of Robinson's book; the political atmosphere at Ohio State…