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- February 1969x
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- Career; Civil Rights Bill of 1964; first meeting LBJ; contacts with LBJ; change in opinion about LBJ; contact with White House through Douglass Cater; cut-off of federal funds; Directorship of the Office of Civil Rights; school guidelines; Title VI…
- 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; work as a welfare department investigator; involvement in the War on Poverty and the Urban League, how Berry came to be the director of the Community Action program; early community-related programs; funding programs such…
- Biographical information; Senator McFarland; Sam Rayburn; relationship between Truman and Senator Johnson; Paul Butler; 1956, 1960 and 1964 conventions and campaigns; JFK; Jim Rowe; Hubert Humphrey; Abe Ribicoff; RFK; LBJ as Vice President; DNC; 3/…
- Talks with the Chinese about “no first use†agreement, Test Ban Treaty, offer to exchange medicine, scholars, etc.; attempts to break down formality with the Chinese, Senator Albert Gore divulging information to the press, LBJ’s building…
- [For interview 2 and 3] 1960 election and campaign; JFK administration; LBJ administration’s domestic and foreign policies and programs; Vietnam; postal service; powerful figures in Congress; reasons for LBJ’s decline in popularity.
- Biographical information; assessment of LBJ in House and Senate; Geneva Summit Conference; Herbert Hoover, Jr.; Nixon; Senator Earle Clements; LBJ’s heart attack; LBJ’s support of Eisenhower’s policies; nomination of Lewis Strauss and Abe…
- [For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested…
- Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam
- [For interviews 1, 2, and 3] LBJ as a liberal-conservative; LBJ record up to 1960; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 and 1964 conventions and elections; Freeman’s personal interest in the Vice-Presidency; JFK problems in Minnesota; LBJ and the…