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- 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…
- Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the…
- Biographical information; how Ikard met LBJ in 1937; Ikard’s work in the House of Representatives while LBJ was a Senator; LBJ’s interest and assistance in north Texas dams, water conservation and REA; NATO; oil and gas industry; the quota…
- [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization of…
- Temple’s role as White House liaison with the Department of Justice; the Presidential appointment process; Temple’s relationship with Harry McPherson; McPherson’s duties; office locations; bedroom duty; lines of responsibility under Connally…
- University of Mississippi crisis of 1962
- LBJ’s gift-giving; LBJ signing autographs; Bill Hopkins; how becoming President affected LBJ’s friendships; learning that Hanoi had accepted LBJ’s 3/31/68 initiative; Tuesday luncheon group; appointment of federal judges; Senator Richard…
- Vietnam; Tonkin Gulf; Pleiku; bombing program; peace negotiations
- 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…