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- Oral historyx
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DATE RANGE
- 1986x
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- How Clark met LBJ; how Governor James Allred helped LBJ run for Congress in 1937; campaign costs in 1937; LBJ's support for FDR; fundraising for LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Brown and Root; W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel's…
- How John F. Kennedy's (JFK) assassination affected the reputation of Dallas and Texas; the emotional toll of JFK's and Robert Kennedy's (RFK) deaths on O'Brien; being asked to identify the missal that was used when Lyndon Johnson…
- Personal relationship with LBJ; LBJ and his family; LBJ as a young boy and relationship with his parents; early relationship with Alvin Wirtz; Allison's first meeting with Lady Bird; memory of Lady Bird as very shy; days at the Ranch
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan's involvement in the White House "To Fulfill These Rights" conference; Moynihan's report "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action;" deciding who would be invited to speak at the…
- LBJ's and Reedy's assessment of Senator John Tower from Texas; Pakistan President Ayub Khan’s personality; LBJ's vice presidential trips to Berlin, to Sweden for Dag Hammarskjold's funeral, and to Paris; LBJ's lack of…
- Vice President LBJ’s meeting with black cabinet, resulting in blacks helping with Democrats by distribution of literature through barber shops and beauty shops, use of radio, the press, and the influence of black ministers, especially Marshall…
- Excise tax reduction; raising the discount rate in 1965; Robert McNamara's and Charles Schultze's misrepresentations of defense expenditures; Barr's involvement in the opening of a bank in Vietnam; the effect of U.S. involvement in…
- Barr's work with FDIC; bringing the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve System and the FDIC together under one agency; James Saxon; controversy surrounding revenue bonds; Saxon's attempts to deregulate the banking system; problems…
- Involvement with Civil Rights Commission; assessment of individual members; aims and achievements of the Commission; impression of Clarence Mitchell; LBJ, the White House and the Commission; interaction with state civil rights commission; the quota…