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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Biographical information; Joe Califano; Nicholas Katzenbach; John Douglas; formation of yearly legislative program; task forces establishment; outside task force organization; regional diversity within task forces; finding qualified people to serve…
- Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931…
- Roth’s childhood; meeting and interacting with LBJ at Southwest Texas (teachers’ college); White Stars organization; Professor Howard Mell Greene; Roth’s work for the NYA; relationship between the NYA and WPA; Senator Alvin Wirtz; President…
- Working for the NYA during the depression and meeting LBJ; LBJ’s powerful leadership of the NYA; Sam Rayburn’s and Alvin Wirtz’s relationships with, and influence over, LBJ; LBJ’s parents; the influential circle of people that worked…
- Biographical information; LBJ; Sputnik; committee work; NASA; space legislation; U.N. and space; conferences; visiting the Ranch; space law; reports; foreign travel
- How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ’s practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration’s trouble finding Frantz’s replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for…
- LBJ as VP; 1964 election; Secretary of the Treasury; LBJ as Chief Executive; assessment of LBJ’s personality; contact with Lady Bird; analysis of 3/31 announcement; LBJ’s faults and virtues; links with the business community; aluminum; Troika/…
- Biographical information; 1948 Senate campaign; organizing political support; the “one hundred executives†meeting at the White House; impressions of LBJ; civil rights; Barbara Jordan; football recruiting for the University of Texas.
- Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his…
- Biographical information; Contact with President Johnson; President's Committee on Marine Sciences, Resource and Engineering; Environmental Service Administration; Sea Lab III; travel as Under Secretary; Assistant Secretary position; impression…