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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- The 1968 proposed tax surcharge to address rising costs of the Vietnam War and curb inflation; support from the business community for the tax surcharge; Civil Rights Act of 1968; Everett Dirksen's role in passing the cloture vote; the Housing…
- Discussion of issues associated with LBJ's political service; federal aid to public schools; Supreme Court appointments
- LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate in…
- Biographical information; first consciousness of LBJ; relationship with LBJ; McCarthy issue; Bobby Baker case; Dominican situation; appointment to the Supreme Court; JFK Fair Employment Practice E.O.; civil rights record
- Meeting LBJ; biographical information; LBJ's illness; LBJ as a patient; political career; medical problems during 1948 campaign; reaction to illness; gallbladder operation; 1955 heart attack; operations; weight; work routine; recuperative…
- LBJ as VP; 1964 election; Secretary of the Treasury; LBJ as Chief Executive; assessment of LBJ’s personality; contact with Lady Bird; analysis of 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s faults and virtues; links with the business community; aluminum; Troika/…
- Activities as Manpower Administrator; the Department of Labor; OEO; NAB; proposed reorganization of the Department of Labor in 1968
- FNMA; reforms brought about as a result of the 1968 Housing Act
- More detailed recollections of the majority leadership; the Policy Committee; Wayne Morse; Robert Taft; nature of bipartisanship under Eisenhower Administration; William Knowland and Hawaii and Alaska statehood
- Texas Republican Party history; aftermath of the JFK assassination;; Jack Porter; Tower’s Senatorial campaigns; LBJ’s treatment of Tower; Yarborough’s relationship with LBJ; HemisFair; patronage; Henry Gonzalez; 1946 election; Vietnam.