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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Optimism in the LBJ Administration going into the 89th Congress in 1964 with a large Democratic majority; Medicare and education as legislative priorities; the powerful alliance of Republicans and southern Democrats; O'Brien's awareness of…
- Medicare bill history and Mills’ support of it; legislative support for the Medicare bill; increased hospital costs and doctors’ fees; Social Security benefits; LBJ’s support of Medicare; changes in Medicare bill during legislative process;…
- Bill Moyers’ departure from the staff; letter from Bill Moyers; source of press leaks; memorandum to the President; LBJ’s reaction; impatience with the situation; conduit between LBJ and outstanding critics in the Congress; visit to Vietnam;…
- Contacts with LBJ; LBJ’s role in Selective Service Acts in 1940-1950; Presidential cooperation; draft card burning; Burke Marshall Commission; Ramsey and Tom Clark; Ann Arbor sit-in; problem over prosecution; Professor Shea; Joe Califano; Sherman…
- Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and…
- LBJ and the Majority Leadership and various Senate activities, 1955; committee assignments; LBJ and Drew Pearson; LBJ and the oil industry; foreign aid; LBJ and organized labor; Paul Butler; LBJ and Eisenhower; LBJ's heart attack; Whitney…
- Biographical information; Wattenberg’s publishing and writing career; Richard M. Scammon; meeting Bill Moyers and LBJ; being hired as a speechwriter; speechwriting process in the LBJ administration; LBJ’s young staff; working on speeches with…
- [For interviews 1 and 2] LBJ’s role as member of House Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s role as Democratic leader in the Senate; LBJ’s qualities of leadership; LBJ’s relationship with Eisenhower; White House-Congressional relations.