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- Circumstances of becoming associated with the War on Poverty Task Force; early organization; duties; need for coordination of the program; decision-making; naming VISTA program; pressure from departments; LBJ's interest; philosophies on dealing…
- Early ideas and leadership in Congress that led to the War on Poverty; getting the depressed areas bill, also known as the area redevelopment bill, passed in 1961; administration and funding of the area redevelopment programs; housing legislation in…
- Feldman's involvement in a select committee that investigated the discharge of General Douglas MacArthur; Senator Richard Russell's role in that committee; the relationship between Russell and LBJ; Walter Jenkins.
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; College Star; LBJ's activities; President Evans; athletes; secret organizations; faculty; school clubs; relationship with LBJ
- Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; members of the drafting group; Job Corps; role of the Labor Department; Willard Wirtz; women in the Job Corps; legislative input; delegation of authority; Sargent Shriver; Community Action Program…
- How Kuchel became a Senator; LBJ in the Senate; LBJ's relationships with Robert Taft and William Knowland; LBJ's political skill in the Senate with both Democracts and Republicans; LBJ's interest in tidelands; the Patrick J. Hurley/…
- Rather's work for Senator Alvin Wirtz and how it led to doing some work for then-Congressman LBJ; Rather's decision to become a permanent member of LBJ's staff; office activities the day of the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor…
- Biographical information; association with Everett Looney; LBJ as a Congressman; relationship with LBJ; 1948 Senate race; investigation of voting irregularities in Alice, TX; collecting affidavits from Mexican-Americans to challenge voting…
- Insights gained from Hackett's work with the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime; giving grants to nineteen cities that wanted to develop a plan for addressing delinquency; pressure to speed up the planning…