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Telephone conversation # 4936, sound recording, LBJ and GERALD SIEGEL, 8/14/1964, 6:46PM

LBJ ASKS SIEGEL TO RELAY WORD TO JOHN SWEETERMAN THAT HE IS SENDING UP APPOINTMENT OF EDWARD BEARD TO DC COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS TOMORROW; LBJ MAKES TEASING REFERENCE TO BOBBY BAKER INVESTIGATION, DON REYNOLDS

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1969, by T.H. Baker

Early work with LBJ and as executive assistant to Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Don Cook; work on the Preparedness Committee; LBJ's attitude toward professional military men; LBJ's temper and lack of inter-personal skills;…

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 2 (II), 6/9/1969, by T.H. Baker

Rejoining LBJ's staff to help on the civil rights measure; building LBJ's reputation in the Senate so he could make a presidential bid; JFK in the senatorial years; LBJ's delay in campaigning for the nomination in 1960; how LBJ came…

Oral history transcript, Gerald W. Siegel, interview 3 (III), 2/11/1977, by Michael L. Gillette

LBJ's unanimous consent policy; Allan Shivers; Knowland; the Bricker Amendment; Siegel's involvement in a variety of legislative acts; Farm Bill; Walter George; LBJ's power of persuasion; LBJ and partisanship; recommital of the Taft-…