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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Involvement with Civil Rights Commission; assessment of individual members; aims and achievements of the Commission; impression of Clarence Mitchell; LBJ, the White House and the Commission; interaction with state civil rights commission; the quota…
- Initial awareness of LBJ; Senate run by Southerners; Tidelands; political albatross; DC’s Southern atmosphere; Dick Russell; Harry Byrd; Eugene Milligan; Bob Taft; LBJ as a political operator; LBJ’s relationship with David Dubinsky; Walter…
- [For interviews 1 and 2] Biographical information; first meeting LBJ and Sam Rayburn at the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago; made an honorary Texan; LBJ and statehood for Hawaii; LBJ and the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange…
- 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…
- Lady Bird Johnson's June 1934 trip to New York City with Cecille Harrison; receiving LBJ's name and contact information from Gene Boehringer; touring New York City; traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Johnson's…
- 1941, 1948, 1954, 1960 and 1964 campaigns; Tarrant County politics; 1956 Texas Democratic fight; relationship of LBJ to local political groups
- State legislature and law school background; job for LBJ in his 1941 campaign; early days as a U.S. Congressman and as a part of a minority party;
- Adam Clayton Powell’s role in Congress and his criticism of Shriver and the Office of Economic Opportunity; the political ramifications of dispersing federal funds without the input of local politicians; John Connally’s criticism of War on…
- Biographical information; participation on Walt Rostow’s Policy Planning Council from 1962-1965; impressions of LBJ as a personal diplomat; characterization of LBJ as a person and as President; deGualle’s decision regarding the devaluation of…
- LBJ's 1949-1950 concern over the rising cost of defense; LBJ's work on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee; Lynda's first grade school in Austin; Austin family activities, like dance classes and visiting friends; LBJ's travel…