- biographical information; how Dean got a position as a lawyer in Austin; Dean's military and law career history; the political situation in Jim Wells county in the mid-1940s; the connection between Dean's law firm and the George Parr…
- Recollections from 1953-1954; LBJ’s Texas State Networks broadcasts; Joseph McCarthy; LBJ and Knowland; Mary Rather leaving the staff; long working hours; Bill Moyers and foreign policy input
- Returning to Saigon following the JFK assassination; Robert McNamara’s December 1963 visit to Vietnam; January 1964 Khanh coup and alleged French involvement; what the French might have wished for Vietnam; Christmas 1964 in Dalat; Tran Van Don; Le…
- Why LBJ hired Eckhardt; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; downplaying LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; how Eckhardt’s opinion of LBJ improved; the Southern Manifesto; LBJ’s public vs. private opinions.
- Entering special forces; PAC desk at NMCC; Yankee Team operations; role in planning operations; dealings with the White House; Ambassador William Sullivan; Barrell Roll and Steel Tiger; Van Ken Bridge; early special forces service in Bad Tolz;…
- Plans for Progress controversy; Bobby Troutman; EEO-1; requirement that individual facilities report statistics; corporate Plans for Progress office; how Bobby Troutman generated conflict between LBJ and RFK; volunteerism vs. mandatory compliance;…
- Recollections from 1955 on legislative matters; Price Daniel; Drew Pearson; interstate highway bill; Quemoy and Matsu; Styles Bridges; the Capehart Amendment; minimum wage; McCarthy Amendment on Geneva talks; Rayburn and LBJ; purchase of stations in…
- History and interpretation of the Taft-Hartley Act; Walter Reuther; the closed shop and the union shop; the building trades; picketing; the various unions; LBJ and labor legislation; Brown and Root and the union; interest of George Meany and David…
- Circumstances of going to work for the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity; LBJ's initial reaction; LBJ and labor; members of the committee; positions with USIA; Department of Labor involvement with the committee;…
- Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic…