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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Initial involvement with the War on Poverty; work with the Council of Economic Advisers; income distribution; tax cut; 1964 campaign and poverty problem; meetings on poverty issue; differences in concept of poverty; key people involved; rejection of…
- Going to work for Senator Thomas Kuchel; presidential appointments from California during Dwight Eisenhower's administration; political factions in California in the 1930s and 1940s; Earl Warren's early law and political career; Kuchel…
- LBJ and Senate activities, 1957; Middle East problems; disarmament issue; open curtain proposal; USIA; J. Edgar Hoover; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Little Rock crisis; Senators Walter George and Richard Russell; Sputnik; space hearings; Johnson…
- Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!;…
- LBJ's election to Congress in 1937 and Franklin Roosevelt's (FDR's) appreciation for his support in Texas; LBJ's appointment to the Naval Affairs Committee and FDR's feelings regarding the appointment; Roosevelt's…
- Meeting LBJ in regard to a CBS affiliate in Austin; LBJ’s involvement with, and knowledge of, the radio business; Jesse Kellam; radio stations as investments in the 1940’s; how LBJ obtained a television station; Larry Fly; the involvement of…
- Working with the Johnsons
- Illinois Central strike; National Independent Committee for Johnson-Humphrey; organizational task force for HUD; Robert Weaver; White House Civil Rights Conference; “Summit Conference†in Chicago; Cabinet posts offered; Demonstration Cities;…
- Biographical information; Holton's early jobs in Sam Rayburn's office, the House Office Building, and the Washington, D.C., police department; Rayburn's 1956 support for LBJ as favorite son presidential candidate and chairman of the…
- [For interviews 1 - 4] Biographical information; Stewart Udall; The Quiet Crisis; Lady Bird; conservation and beautification; Committee for a More Beautiful Capital; East Wing; Lady Bird’s trips; White House Conference on Natural Beauty; Model…