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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Democratic National Convention, 1956; VP candidate decision; Adlai Stevenson; 1956 Presidential campaign; earlier Fort Worth state convention; NATO conference; legislative issues in 1956
- How he came to Washington; LBJ and Little Congress; LBJ as House doorman when Secretary to Congressman Kelberg; “Fishbait†as Miller’s nickname; dedication of the Sam Rayburn Library in Bonham, Texas; Sam Rayburn and his relationship with LBJ…
- Biographical information; Presidential impact on AID; comparison of JFK and LBJ; Presidential approval of specific loans; BOB and Treasury Department involvement in policy decision; White House and State Department involvement; B/P loans; AID…
- Biographical information; working for Homer Thornberry; Lady Bird Johnson as a businesswoman; Jesse Kellam; how Gideon came to know LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; the relationship between LBJ and Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; the relationship between Wirtz and…
- Biographical information; choice of LBJ as VP; LBJ as chairman of EEO Commission; operation of HEW; liaison with Presidential staff; first cabinet meeting; assessment of cabinet meetings; poverty bill/program; ESEA; LBJ's assistance in passing…
- Boggs' earliest memories of the Johnsons in 1941; LBJ's World War II military service; LBJ's 1948 Senate election; socializing with the Johnsons and Sam Rayburn; Boggs' and Rayburn's interaction during the 1960 presidential…
- Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies…
- Biographical information; BOB job; liquidation of war industries; use of BOB by Presidents Truman and Eisenhower; Major General Wilton Persons; Sherman Adams; Jack Martin; Bryce Harlow; McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; Hatch Act; problem of civil…
- How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act…
- Appointment to Presidential Advisory Council for the Office of Economic Opportunity while superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh; details of Pittsburgh’s pre-primary program in 1963-1964 (later called Head Start under OEO); composition of the OEO…