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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Biographical information; LBJ’s 1948 congressional campaign; Mashman’s work as pilot of the helicopter provided by Bell Aircraft Corp.; impressions of LBJ; techniques in using the helicopter; visits to the Ranch and the White House; preparing…
- Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall…
- Biographical information; AID operations; Far East; additionality; Congress; interagency relationships; Vietnam; diversion and control of AID supplies; intervention; other development programs
- Founding of the Pell Grant system; memories of days at Chapel Hill and university presidency; White House Fellows Program; relationship with White House while he was still an outsider; segregation in higher education and government’s role;…
- Information dissemination in the Congress and White House; the public relations value of getting information early; the importance of a president-elect's staff and cabinet choices; O'Brien's meetings with cabinet members to reiterate…
- Review of career; dealing with various Presidents; assignment of agents; the Johnson family; effect of JFK assassination on duties; the Texas operation; Presidents traveling abroad; demonstrations; the Dallas tragedy; the Warren Commission's…
- 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…
- Meeting and campaigning for LBJ in 1948; Telles’ service in WWII; why Telles ran for county clerk and it’s importance among Mexican-Americans; campaigning for JFK and LBJ in 1960; Chamizal; relationship between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez;…
- Impressions of LBJ; Khrushchev's departure and the explosion of the first Chinese communist nuclear device; attending NSC meetings; the Sino-Soviet split; field experience in Taiwan as it related to Southeast Asia; patriotism and dedications of…
- Career history; early advance work; meeting W. Marvin Watson; meeting LBJ and getting advice on how to be a good employee; working on the Whistle Stop Tour; LBJ’s ability to size people up and communicate effectively; LBJ staffs’ youth; LBJ…