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- June 1977x
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- LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; strategies in passing or defeating bills and in committee appointments; Walter George
- Foreign Relations Committee; HHH's 1955 success in establishing an arms control/disarmament subcommittee; defeat of Lewis Strauss nomination as director of the Atomic Energy Commission; Omnibus Farm Bill of 1954; Esma(?) Taft Benson; how LBJ…
- An incident involving the press access to LBJ at the Ranch; Cassie Mackin; Doug Kiker; Marianne Means; Virginia "Ginny" Thrift; Walter Lippmann and Scotty Reston; Washington Whispers; comparing the number of press conferences held by LBJ…
- LBJ's association with President Roosevelt; LBJ as a New Dealer compared to Maury Maverick as a populist; LBJ turning to Sam Rayburn for advice and support; LBJ urging Poage to run against O'Daniel for a Senate seat; the 1948 election;…
- Social Security Act Amendment; Minimum Wage bill 1955; Arthur Beeson nomination to NLRB; Lewis Strauss nomination; Bricker Amendment; jury trial amendment; Hell's Canyon dam; Bill Knowland; 1957 Civil Rights Bill
- LBJ's susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ…
- Biographical information; labor movement in Texas; 1948 Senate race; labor support; Taft-Hartley; LBJ's legislative abilities and tactics; organizing Senate; McCarthy censure; 1955 tax bill; highway bill; minimum wage bill; civil rights bill;…
- [For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the…