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- LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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- Incidents involving civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, Andy Young, and Marian Edelman; the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service (ASCS); Jamie Whitten; Rural Areas Development Service (RADS); Secretary of Agriculture…
- Biographical information; first awareness of LBJ; impressions of LBJ; the Black Stars; Professor Greene; reflections on SWTSTC ; LBJ's reputation on campus; evaluation of LBJ's political skills; LBJ and Dr. Evans; recollections of other…
- Biographical information; selection as Job Corps Director; Job Corps Policy Planning; Civilian Conservation Corps; Bill Moyers; Job Corps racial issues; Gary Job Corps Center; John Connally; Women Job Corps Centers; recruitment; LBJ; Dr. F.A. Johnson
- Middle- and upper-class American fear and hostility toward the poor; closing Job Corps centers in 1968 due to budget cuts; formal evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity programs; comparison of Bill Haddad and Edgar May as head of the OEO…
- Candidacy for the Senate; first acquaintance with LBJ; Minority Leadership; Senate Club; FEPC and Tidelands; LBJ
- Discussion of LBJ's days as Director of the NYA in Texas, 1935-1937
- Visitors during LBJ's hospitalization after appendix surgery in 1937; LBJ's efforts to befriend political opponents, such as C. N. Avery and Polk Shelton; LBJ meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's trip to…
- McGiffert's career from 1953 to 1965; how McGiffert got into government work and promotion opportunities under Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara; meetings with LBJ, including one after the assassination of Martin Luther King; McGiffert'…
- Meeting LBJ in regard to a CBS affiliate in Austin; LBJ’s involvement with, and knowledge of, the radio business; Jesse Kellam; radio stations as investments in the 1940’s; how LBJ obtained a television station; Larry Fly; the involvement of…