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- Biographical information; working for Homer Thornberry; Lady Bird Johnson as a businesswoman; Jesse Kellam; how Gideon came to know LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; the relationship between LBJ and Wirtz; George and Herman Brown; the relationship between Wirtz and…
- LBJ's efforts to keep Goodfellow Field open in San Angelo, Texas; John Connally's Texas gubernatorial campaign in 1962; the parade celebrating John Glenn's orbiting of the earth in 1962; LBJ's involvement in the early space…
- 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;…
- How Sandlin became associated with Governor Allan Shivers; the Texas State Democratic Executive Committee; the 1952 State Democratic Convention; Sandlin's work as secretary and chairman of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee; Governor…
- Deason's family history; Deason's uncle Charles' work around the Stockdale, Texas, area; Deason's parents and siblings; Deason's educational background; how Deason became a teacher and, later, an attorney; how Deason went to…
- Visiting LBJ after his 1955 heart attack; the advent of cable television; speaking to Emanuel Celler’s antitrust subcommittee on the House Judiciary committee and Stanton’s resulting relationship with Celler; the relationship between LBJ and…
- LBJ's refusal to participate in a debate; JFK and Richard Nixon's second, third, and fourth debates; LBJ seeking Stanton's advice on improving his television appearances; LBJ using a lavaliere microphone; Morley Safer's 1965…