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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Ketchum’s early days in Washington D.C. and early contact with the Johnsons; Mrs. Johnson’ interest in the history of the White House; Mrs. Johnson’s sense of humor; Mrs. Johnson’s encounter with Eartha Kitt at the Women Doers’ Luncheon;…
- 30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements); LBJ…
- Visiting President Truman and a trip to the Truman Library; phones and photographers in the Truman home; lessons learned on a trip to Honolulu; why LBJ did not travel outside the US more often; incident involving LBJ purchasing a dead horse;…
- First meeting LBJ in 1948; certification of the election; vote contest; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; Governor Stevenson’s campaign in Texas; Democratic Organizing Committee; Rayburn’s influence in Texas Party; Democratic Advisory Council; 1956…
- Reflections on Southwest Texas State Teachers College in the 1920s; the college newspaper; Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s in Texas; Shelton's father's opposition to the Klan; Shelton's father and Jim Ferguson; type of students at Southwest…
- Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam
- Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf; Pleiku; bombing program; peace negotiations
- How Pachios got involved with Peace Corps; JFK’s assassination; LBJ comparing himself to JFK; Eric Goldman; Pachios’ work as an advance man in the 1964 Presidential campaign; Maine governor John Reed; Eugene Pulliam; campaign stops in California…
- Biographical information; Julius B. Richmond; Richard Boone; Economic Opportunity Act; David Hackett; Presidential Commission on Juvenile Delinquency; Fred O.R. Hayes; Community Action Programs; Adam Yarmolinsky; Edith Green; Mobilization for Youth…
- Intelligence operations in Vietnam; Ngo Dinh Nhu; French influence; Diem; North to South infiltration; social and economic regeneration; Americans in Vietnam in 1959; MAAG; land reform; strategic hamlet program; argoville program; Buddhists; the…