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- 1969x
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- [For interviews 1 and 2] Brief contacts with Senator Johnson during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations; Democratic Advisory Council establishment and opposition by LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Paul Butler; LBJ’s effectiveness as Senate majority…
- Appointment and service as Postmaster General by JFK, re-appointment by LBJ, Adlai Stevenson’s statement at first Cabinet meeting. Differences in JFK and LBJ attitudes towards Cabinet (preferred LBJ’s). Johnson’s influence on Post Office…
- Cyprus Crisis; Korean mission.
- 1964 legislation; Civil Rights bill; Immigration Bill; Elemenary and Secondary Education Bill; Rent Supplement Bill; Teacher Corps program; tax surcharge; Joe Fowler; Congressman Mills; Nixon
- Gun control bill; Barefoot Sanders; Housing and Urban Development Act; effect of the Vietnam War on Great Society programs; Vietnam War; March 31 statement; 1968 Democractic convention; Mayor Daley's role; congressional working relationship…
- Biographical information; selection of JFK for PT boat duty; influence of LBJ; FMC Chairman; contact with LBJ; John S. Patterson; LBJ’s awareness of the work of the FMC; Thor Tollefson; problems of American Merchant Marine; political power of…
- Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952;…
- 1960 presidential nominations; JFK meeting with Minnesota leaders; Eugene McCarthy opposition to JFK; LBJ nomination bid; HHH; Minnesota vote for HHH, then JFK; LBJ VP nomination; Freeman as Secretary of Agriculture; Food for Peace Program (PL-480)
- Biographical information; Court Packing Bill; first meeting with LBJ, 1937-1938; appointed by FDR to the Department of Justice, Criminal Division; supported Rayburn for VP in 1944; court backlog; FDR's support of LBJ; transfer to Antitrust…