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- Starting work for Marvin Watson; Jones’ work responsibilities; logging White House calls; LBJ cutting expenses; turning off the lights at the White House; reviewing FBI reports on prospective hires/appointees; LBJ’s desire to appear honest and…
- LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate in…
- The effect of the JFK assassination on the Pickle campaign; LBJ and Pickle's campaign; Pickle's accelerated swearing-in and his vote on wheat sales to the USSR; LBJ and the appointment of John Connally as secretary of the navy and his…
- Stevens' involvement in entertainers that were invited to the White House; how Stevens became Special Assistant on the Arts; Robert Fleming's support in getting Howard Worth "Judge" Smith to support an arts council; John…
- How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act…
- Duties as Secretary, LBJ’s Vice Presidential days, Trips with Johnson, Fehmer’s opinion of LBJ’s relationships with the Kennedys, JFK’s Assassination and aftermath.
- Acquaintance with LBJ during the Kleberg years; LBJ's ambition and energy; influence of Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; the 1941 campaign; Jim Ferguson's role in 1941; role of postmasters and country commissioners in Texas state politics;…
- Biographical information; Judge Ben B. Lindsey; Harold Ickes; Alvin Wirtz; FDR; LBJ techniques; Harry Truman; tidelands; civil rights; 1960 Democratic convention; Chapman's health; national lawyer's group for Johnson-Humphrey in 1964;…
- The Sequoia; LBJ's assessment of Nixon; LBJ's comments on Martin Luther King; working on a tax surcharge speech on the Sequoia; staff members wanting access to the Sequoia for personal use; Camp David; visiting the Ranch; LBJ's office…
- Washington career background from 1951; contacts with LBJ when Senator; LBJ's relationship with Washington and White House press corps; LBJ's control and selection of Lady Bird's wardrobe; early days in Washington as correspondent;…