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- Career history as a journalist; work on the Texas Judicial Council; the Texas state legislature in 1933; how the problems of education, poverty, prisons, social security, and the like have spanned decades; a government pension system; differences of…
- Broadcast activities of the Johnson family; Senator Alvin Wirtz; FM license for the Johnsons' radio station, KTBC; CBS radio affiliation; decision to go into television; station personnel; Ted Taylor; air personalities; Jim Nunby; rental of…
- the state of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) when O'Brien became chairman; O'Brien's immediate reorganization of the DNC and new priorities; efforts to build the relationship between the DNC and Congress; DNC help with 1970…
- Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) loss to Eugene McCarthy in the Oregon primary; support for RFK going into the New York primary; concerns going into the California primary and memories of 1960 California problems with Edmund "Pat" Brown; the RFK/…
- Table of allocations concerning KTBC television station; problems with mixed television signals (220 mile separation); Federal Communications Commission; acquisition of KANG in Waco; Clyde Weatherby; history of the UHF station; Jesse Kellam; Tom…
- Biographical information; how Shanks met LBJ; LBJ's effect on industrial development in Austin; LBJ's effect on racial issues in Austin; LBJ's relationship with Austin mayor Tom Miller; desegregation in Austin; LBJ's influence on…
- The Humphreys' visit with the O'Briens the day before Richard Nixon's inauguration; O'Brien's decision to become president of McDonnell and Company as Murray McDonnell became chairman of the board; Ira Kapenstein and Phyllis…
- Founding of the Pell Grant system; memories of days at Chapel Hill and university presidency; White House Fellows Program; relationship with White House while he was still an outsider; segregation in higher education and government’s role;…
- John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse…