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- Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Historiesx
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DATE RANGE
- 1981x
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- Biographical information; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ as a teen; Rebekah Baines Johnson; high school in Johnson City; teachers’ state meet; trip to California, 1925; Tom Martin.
- Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San…
- Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!;…
- Visiting President Truman and a trip to the Truman Library; phones and photographers in the Truman home; lessons learned on a trip to Honolulu; why LBJ did not travel outside the US more often; incident involving LBJ purchasing a dead horse;…
- LBJ's 1946 campaign and schedule of campaign activities; Gene Autry campaigning with LBJ; criticism after LBJ shook hands with African-American constituents; Wooldridge Park gatherings for food and political speech-making; the women's…
- His decision to work for LBJ, John Connally's role among LBJ staff members, LBJ's childhood, Billy Drake, LBJ's relationship with his staff, Busby’s role as speechwriter, Coke Stevenson's political career, the Roosevelt…
- Campaign strategies for the second 1948 primary against Coke Stevenson; voter support from the 10th District throughout LBJ's political career; Stevenson's weaknesses; political organization among women in Texas; seeking the votes of…
- Guerilla warfare, especially in countries with a lack of unity under a central government; difficulties opposing guerilla warfare tactics; President Eisenhower's policy toward developing countries and his role as a reluctant innovator; special…
- LBJ's trips to Vietnam in 1966 and 1967; LBJ's mood about Vietnam; LBJ's relationship with the military; LBJ and LeMay, McConnell, Wheeler, Moymer, Abrams, Westmoreland and Haig; aspects of the role of a military aide; LBJ and…
- Biographical information; Carl Vinson; GSA staff and operations; relationship with LBJ; GSA involvement in housing shortage alleviations; surplus property use; disposal of Brooklyn Navy Yard; aluminum stockpile; LBJ Library plans; the Federal…