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- Biographical information; Sam Rayburn; Comptroller; career; Senator Couzens and Ford Auto Company; Roosevelt bank moratorium; commissioned as examiner; bank examination facets; FDIC; money deposits overseas; banking crisis; "Eurodollar;"…
- Biographical information; appointment as Postmaster; politically active; relationship with LBJ while he was secretary to Kleberg; Johnsons' marriage ceremony; first Congressional campaign; 1941 and 1948 Senatorial campaigns; VP nomination;…
- First newspaper interview with LBJ in 1933; LBJ’s relationship with FDR and Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Clark Clifford; 1924, 1956 and 1968 Democratic conventions; LBJ’s techniques; civil rights legislation; Home Rule for D.C.; LBJ’s relationship…
- Decision to go to work for LBJ in 1948; early days in Washington; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; episode of the kidney stone illness; trip to Mayo Clinic; 1948 campaign; advancing trips; use of helicopter for campaigning.
- Biographical information; White House detail in 1953; physical aptitude tests; qualifications changes; Atlanta field office, 1958-1960; Vice Presidential detail in 1961; prevention of possible incidents; checking packages; special cases in crowds;…
- Early contacts with LBJ; 1961 appointment as Assistant Attorney General
- Biographical information; meeting with LBJ in 1960; wrote speeches for JFK; Moyers’ operation; Task Force on Urban Affairs; urban crisis; concept of the Great Society; urban problems given greater dimension under LBJ; uniqueness of task forces;…
- Biographical information; White House Message Operations; characterization of LBJ; Will Sparks; role of public correspondence in the White House; personal comments in mail; response to 3/31 announcement; form letters; quantity of mail; LBJ’s…
- 30 minute interview with LBJ on appointment as Deputy Postmaster General; contact with Senator Kennedy about congressional retirement program; background of appointment as Assistant Postmaster General for Operations (congressional endorsements); LBJ…
- First meeting LBJ in 1948; certification of the election; vote contest; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; Governor Stevenson’s campaign in Texas; Democratic Organizing Committee; Rayburn’s influence in Texas Party; Democratic Advisory Council; 1956…