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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Visitors during LBJ's hospitalization after appendix surgery in 1937; LBJ's efforts to befriend political opponents, such as C. N. Avery and Polk Shelton; LBJ meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's trip to…
- 1965 meeting with LBJ about press coverage in Vietnam; Frank Stanton; Arthur Sylvester; LBJ and the press; Walt Rostow; different interpretations of the situation in Vietnam; Bill Moyers; government response to press criticism; qualifications of the…
- Biographical information; Vo Nguyen Giap in the 1930s; the development of nationalist parties and the Communist Party in North Vietnam; Diem's life after the Communists took over North Vietnam in 1945; Diem's opinion of communism and his…
- Cowles' connection to the University of Texas; the origin of the Flair Symposium and its first symposia in 1994; Cowles' work at Look magazine; how Flair magazine was started and why it did not succeed; the Flair Annual; recognition Cowles…
- The Elysee Accords in 1953; the North/South division of Vietnam and resulting changes in leadership; Ngo Dinh Diem's early work as the first president of South Vietnam; opposition to Diem by 1960; the Can Lao Party and Ngo Dinh Nhu; methods of…
- Initial awareness of LBJ; Senate run by Southerners; Tidelands; political albatross; DC’s Southern atmosphere; Dick Russell; Harry Byrd; Eugene Milligan; Bob Taft; LBJ as a political operator; LBJ’s relationship with David Dubinsky; Walter…
- Meeting LBJ in 1960; civil rights demonstrations in Atlanta and subsequent federal laws to override states’ discriminatory laws; Civil Rights Act of 1964; opinions of integration among Atlanta leadership; Ralph McGill; Martin Luther King, Sr. and…
- LBJ-Rayburn relationship; LBJ as legislator; the 1960 Democratic convention in Los Angeles; LBJ and his domestic programs evaluated; LBJ and the watchdog committee for the AEC; LBJ's visit to Iran and his influence on the Shah; LBJ asks…
- Price Daniel and the Senate Judiciary Committee; Democratic Steering Committee; Drew Pearson; Commerce Committee; Senator Alben Barkley; selection of Harry Truman as 1944 vice-presidential candidate; use of Skeeter Johnston's office for lunch;…
- Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections