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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- First meeting LBJ in 1958; forming the Austin Foreign Policy Club with George Hoffman and Horace Busby; a visit to the Ranch about 1958; refusing an appointment as general counsel to the army; surprise appointment as chairman of the Administrative…
- Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell…
- Biographical information; Wiley College; Dr. Melvin Tolson; CTJ and civil rights; LBJ is disappointed that Wright did not notice passage of the 1957 Civil Rights Act; LBJ complains that blacks are ungrateful to him; Robert Weaver, Roger Wilkins,…
- Tax surcharge; balancing the budget and six billion dollars in budget cuts, pressure from LBJ; budgetary process reform; George Mahon; work on the Ways and Means Committee; appropriations.
- Jacqueline Kennedy Garden; Mrs. Paul Mellon; Lady Bird Johnson Park
- Biographical information; Council of Economic Advisers; economic policies of the JFK Administration; steel price fight, 1961-1962
- Biographical information; Rayburn; JFK; 1960 Democratic campaign; LBJ’s vice presidency; Lady Bird; Interior; Job Corps; RFK and LBJ
- Writing The Neglected Aspect; circumstances of appointment to office; disapproves LBJ's Vietnam policy; drafting the Smithsonian speech for LBJ; background of the International Education Act; the Interagency Committee on International Education…
- Shriver's opinion that Job Corps would yield results quickly; how Shriver's work for the Chicago Board of Education guided his work in Job Corps; the idea of putting the Job Corps under the Department of Defense; LBJ's support for…
- Stevens' involvement in entertainers that were invited to the White House; how Stevens became Special Assistant on the Arts; Robert Fleming's support in getting Howard Worth "Judge" Smith to support an arts council; John…