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- November 1969x
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- Thomas Jefferson Taylor’s work; the education of all three Taylor children; how Lady Bird got her nickname; childhood activities; Doris Odam Powell; the siblings’ inability to be together, due to circumstance; early impressions of LBJ; hunting…
- Biographical information; the source of Lasker’s interest in health programs and beautification; becoming involved with politics; early encounters with LBJ; legislation and funding for housing the elderly; 1960 election and convention in Los…
- Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ in…
- U.S. aid to India; reasons for US aid; purpose of AID; Food for Peace Program to India; U.S. wheat shipments to India; LBJ
- Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful…
- Biographical information; high school debate interactions with LBJ; LBJ's 1948 campaign; Crooker's naval service; LBJ's 1956 campaign; LBJ's chances of being made the Democratic presidential candidate in 1960; the Harris County…
- 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;…
- Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; social relationship; selection clothes for Lady Bird; inaugural clothes; Lady Bird as a dutiful and cost conscious wife; 1965 inaugural festivities; Mrs. Angier Biddle; Lady Bird’s image; Women’s…
- Voting Rights Act 1965; Civil Rights Act; Mansfield; McCormack; Hale Boggs; Russell Long; LBJ’s feelings about open housing; differences between Ramsey Clark and Katzenbach over civil rights; LBJ’s consideration of legal problems raised by open…
- Sputnik; Senate Preparedness Sub-Committee; LBJ’s relationship with Symington; General James M. Gavin; Special Committee on Space and Aeronautics; missile gap investigation; 1960 Democratic National Convention and campaign; LBJ as VP; Panama…