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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- How General Albright came to work for LBJ; Colonel George J. McNally; telephone system and security; functions of the White House Communications Agency; the teleprompter; LBJ’s lighting and background requirements for public appearances; problems…
- Biographical information; Labor and Public Welfare Committee staff and their areas of expertise; Lister Hill's work as chair of the committee; bipartisanship on the committee; committee response to Great Society legislation, especially relating…
- President Roosevelt calling congressmen out of military service during World War II; Mildred Moody; Connally's naval career; Daniel Moody; Alvin Wirtz; the Johnsons' business properties in Austin in the 1940's; Hardy Hollers; the…
- How John F. Kennedy's (JFK) assassination affected the reputation of Dallas and Texas; the emotional toll of JFK's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) deaths on O'Brien; being asked to identify the missal that was used when Lyndon Johnson…
- Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter…
- How Connally became aware of LBJ in the 1930's; LBJ's 1938 campaign; 1938 Ernest Thompson gubernatorial campaign; Eddie Joseph; how Connally became LBJ's congressional secretary; Connally's work/duties in Washington D.C.; letter-…
- Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; membership; Christopher Weeks; Adam Yarmolinsky; Sargent Shriver; structure and activities of task force Community Action; Job Corps; legislative submission