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- 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…
- How Thornhill became Vice President LBJ's pilot in 1962; Thornhill's and James Cross' duties; the Jet Star airplane; Thornhill's flying experience; Thornhill's plane wreck in India; Air Force One crew; Thornhill having to…
- Austin City Council’s concerns with civil rights issues in 1950s and 1960s; human rights commission not established until 1967; gradual desegregation of Austin; other Austin issues and Long’s activities; failed campaign for state Senate, 1954;…
- Biographical information; press release regarding financial affairs of the Johnson family upon LBJ's death (released by Thomas); management of Mr. Taylor's estate (Lady Bird's father); LBJ as a good businessman; KTBC; LBJ's faith…
- How the Weinheimer and Johnson families knew each other; meeting LBJ and Lady Bird; LBJ’s 1954 campaign; the Weinheimers being Democrats; the history of party allegiances in Gillespie County, Texas; the impression LBJ made on local citizens by…
- Rather rejoining LBJ's staff at the end of his presidency; Rather's nieces attending school in Washington, D.C.; LBJ's decision to retire from politics; the slower pace of office work at the White House and LBJ's daily schedule;…
- Martin's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; discrepancies in expenditures reported by different agencies and people; events leading up to the Federal Reserve Board raising the discount rate to 4.5 percent; LBJ's response to Martin…
- Tax surcharge; balancing the budget and six billion dollars in budget cuts, pressure from LBJ; budgetary process reform; George Mahon; work on the Ways and Means Committee; appropriations.
- Newsletter published by the Friends of the LBJ Library. For more about the Friends, including membership information, please see the LBJ Library website…
- Charles Colson; memos Richard Nixon's staff wrote and distributed attempting to hurt O'Brien's reputation, including one that suggested a conflict of interest between O'Brien as head of O'Brien Associates and Democratic…