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- Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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DATE RANGE
- February 1969x
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- 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; 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…
- Department of Justice history and its role as legal advisor to the president through the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC); laws created in the executive branch, such as through executive order, presidential proclamations and executive agreements;…
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ and Speaker Sam Rayburn; relationship between the White House staff and Monahan in the Speaker’s office; LBJ and JFK’s Administrations; liaison functions; JFK’s relationship with McCormack; Larry O’…
- Biographical information; Claire Booth Luce; 1944, 1960 and 1968 campaigns; Women
- 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…
- LBJ as a congressman; civil rights as an issue in Virginia; the 1960 Democratic Convention and the selection of LBJ as a candidate for VP; Senator Harry Byrd; JFK as President
- Biographical information; birth; education; legislative service and experience; military service; writing and editorship; political activities (Adlai Stevenson campaign); Sam Rayburn; Hale Boggs; biography of Sam Rayburn; teaching; relationship with…