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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Decision to go to work for LBJ in 1948; early days in Washington; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; episode of the kidney stone illness; trip to Mayo Clinic; 1948 campaign; advancing trips; use of helicopter for campaigning.
- Biographical information; Shrivers; Holmes Brown; James Kelleher; John Brademus; Mr. Boutin; Mr. Loftus; press relations; Marshall Peck; Paul Weeks; Erwin Knoll; Joe Kershaw; "The Year Toward Tomorrow;" yearly Congressional approval; lack…
- Braestrup’s work as a journalist in Southeast Asia for the New York Times; New York Times coverage of Vietnam compared to Time magazine; how journalists covered Vietnam and the danger involved; how Braestrup became Washington Post Bureau Chief;…
- Biographical information; Senator Richard Russell; LBJ’s decreased popularity and its sources; civil rights; LBJ’s relationship with Russell; activating battleship New Jersey; Russell’s criticism of LBJ’s Administration; editorial cartoon;…
- October 1965 visit to the Ranch; LBJ’s relationship with the press; activities at the Ranch; LBJ’s desire to pay off Democratic National Committee debt and Krim’s involvement; Cliff Carter; John Criswell; political discussions at the Ranch;…
- LBJ’s teaching days in Cotulla; office in Johnson City; Mrs. Nichols’ marriage; Pat Moreland; Russell Brown; Phil Nichols; answering of correspondence; LCRA electricity project; FDR and LBJ; Sam Rayburn’s “Board of Education;†Hardy…
- His decision to work for LBJ, John Connally's role among LBJ staff members, LBJ's childhood, Billy Drake, LBJ's relationship with his staff, Busby’s role as speechwriter, Coke Stevenson's political career, the Roosevelt…
- Biographical information; how Huitt came to know LBJ in 1954; Huitt working under George Reedy; LBJ's work as Senate Minority Leader and effort to pull the Democratic Party together; argument between Senator William Knowland and LBJ regarding…
- His work on the Johnson-Stevenson case; Leland Olds; the way LBJ became Majority Leader; the Filibuster Rule; Johnson’s and Sam Rayburn’s relationship; the Civil Rights Acts and LBJ’s involvement with them; LBJ’s role in the McCarthy period…
- Reynolds’ relationship with Arthur Goldberg; Reynolds’ term on the National Labor Relations Board; work in the Navy with labor matters; the Landrum-Griffin Act; Reynolds’ duties as Assistant Secretary of Labor; first impressions of LBJ; LBJ…