-
SERIES
- Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
-
DATE RANGE
- 1969x
Tags
Type
Specific Item Type
Collection
Date Range
Specific Date
Contributor
Subject
- Biographical information; Dockrey Murder case; Garner of Texas vs. Snell of New York; Miller’s appointment of LBJ; Edward Jamison; first impressions of LBJ; three famous Texas political figures; LBJ’s interest in military affairs; rating LBJ as…
- Personal observations of LBJ and JFK before their White House years, especially LBJ in the congress; LBJ's Senate campaigns; the 1960 campaign; "Whistle Stop" campaign of Lady Bird; the Bobby Baker scandal; Rayburn-LBJ relationship;…
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ's father and grandfather; early remembrances of Gillespie County; move of county seat to Johnson City; 1904 meeting with Sam Ealy Johnson of Austin; first awareness of LBJ while he was…
- Biographical information; early support of and work toward a transportation department; recollections of Najeeb Halaby; LBJ assumes presidency; Alan Boyd and others involved in development of DOT; opposition to DOT by FAA and McKee; Dean's…
- Biographical information; Treasury Department; IRS; War Production Board; Marshall Plan; Cold War; Joe McCarthy; Director of Export Policy staff; Chip Bohlen; Harold Stassen; Admiral Walter S. DeLany; Senator O'Connor; Senator McCarthy; O'…
- Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969 as a recruiter of talented persons for government service; setting up the guidelines for executive branch presidential appointments; evaluating and recommending appointees; generating appointment…
- Office of Economic Opportunity
- Biographical information; Higher Education Act of 1965; HEW; Labor & HEW conflict; reorganization; HEW governing by Gardner and Cohen; relationship with White House Staff; Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; Presidential staff…
- Experiences working for LBJ during the late 1950s, especially in matters of legislation, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1957; Defense Department matters
- Biographical information; Chairman of Medal Committee for LBJ’s inaugural; Felix DeWaldin; appointment to Redevelopment Land Agency; Marvin Watson; Neville Miller; appointment to Chairmanship of District Council; Steve Pollack; Max Kampelman;…