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- 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…
- Sam Rayburn and LBJ; Senator Kerr; LBJ for President in 1956; Earle Clements; Senator from Kentucky; Wallace from Alabama; JFK; Al Gore; Frank Clement of Tennessee; Estes Kefauver; civil rights; Governor Faubus of Arkansas; Fulbright; Lester Maddox…
- 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;…
- Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;†Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press…
- Interaction with LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and other politicians; LBJ’s senate race and maneuver to get on Texas ballot; conflict with oil industry because LBJ did not support mandatory oil increase; supporting Kennedy; Nixon’s Supreme Court argument;…
- University of Mississippi crisis of 1962
- How Torp came to work in Cyprus in 1967 and what his work included; problem between the Turks and the Greeks over a road closure; the lack of unity among Cyprus natives and partitioning of the island; the Archbishop’s authoritative role; the U.S.…
- The Middle East; Glassboro; the European sphere; NATO; the Czechoslovakian invasion; Africa; greatest mistake; failure; crisis and satisfaction of the eight-year period
- Building of LBJ Library; Heath named Swedish Ambassador in March, confirmed April 1967; Russell Tribunal; three groups in Sweden: hard-core ant-Americans, Communists, pro-Americans; race and Vietnam both issues in Sweden; experiences of Tanzanian…
- Meeting LBJ in 1948; the 1960 Democratic convention at Los Angeles; the 1960 campaign; the Texas Senate campaign; the Texas gubernatorial race in 1960 and 1962; Billie Sol Estes and the Agriculture Department; Wilson shifts to the Republican Party;…