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- 1970x
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- Roche’s career advancements in politics; LBJ’s relationship with the Kennedys, McNamara, Bundy, Valenti, Moyers, Rostow and others; his involvement in Vietnam-related issues; personal evaluation of may official personnel and the effectiveness of…
- March 31 speech, the process of drafting it, and speech-writer Harry McPherson; radios in the White House cars; calling people to forewarn them of the speech’s contents; White House activity following the speech; LBJ’ hopes that the speech could…
- Design of Pennsylvania Avenue; Civil War use of the Mall; Daniel H. Burnham; McMillan Commission; Smithsonian red brick castle demolition; Mrs. Jim Howe; Pennsylvania Avenue Commission; JFK’s interest in Washington; Paul Thiry; contact with LBJ;…
- Wheeler-dealer charges; Gene Autry; 1948 Senate campaign; helicopter; Coke Stevenson; George Parr; State Democratic Executive Committee, 1948.
- Interstate Commerce Commission problem with a railroad merger and Alan Boyd; Ramsey Clark’s appeal and LBJ’s view of the case; LBJ’s enthusiasm; changing LBJ’s mind; LBJ’s naps; trips with LBJ; advance work; stopping at Cam Ranh Bay;…
- Early family relationship between Birdwell and Johnson families; early organization of National Youth Administration Program in Texas; LBJ's first race for Congress (1937); early days in Washington as Secretary to Congressman Johnson; KVET and…
- How Hoyt met LBJ; Hoyt’s role as domestic director of the Office of War Information; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s persuasive techniques; staying the night at the White House visiting with LBJ; LBJ’s public relations; 1960 election; Hoyt’s appointment…
- Biographical information; first meeting with LBJ; Democratic political campaigns leading to 1956 Convention; Central High School integration; 1960 Democratic Convention and Kennedy-Johnson nomination; relations with LBJ as VP; ghost writing for Lady…
- Illinois Central strike; National Independent Committee for Johnson-Humphrey; organizational task force for HUD; Robert Weaver; White House Civil Rights Conference; “Summit Conference†in Chicago; Cabinet posts offered; Demonstration Cities;…