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- Echo Park Dam; interstate highway program and billboards; Allan Shivers; Senate investigations; public housing bill; extreme measures taken to get senators to the Capitol to vote; getting senators out of Washington to win a vote; minimum wage bill;…
- Early political interest and involvement; work with Wisconsin Electric Cooperatives; editing the National Farmers Union newsletter; views on Benson's farm program; work on Senator Proxmire's staff; LBJ and Proxmire; 1959 Proxmire speech;…
- LBJ's meeting with Richard Nixon and members of Nixon's Cabinet following the 1968 election; LBJ's interest in finding a cure for cancer; problems enacting civil rights legislation, such as "white flight"; problems with the…
- Early contacts and impressions of LBJ as a student, teacher, Congressional secretary, NYA state director and Congressman; the Depression; Montgomery’s influence in LBJ’s appointment as NYA state director; the 1937 campaign; LBJ’s service in…
- Baker’s career in the Senate; LBJ as Senator; Taft-Hartley Act; Senator Russell; Senator Taft; Joe McCarthy; the Smith Amendment; Senator John Bricker; Senator Walter George; the Cloakroom
- Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJâ…
- Steve Mitchell; the oil business; drought relief; President Eisenhower; foreign aid; Chiang Kai-Shek; Bricker Amendment; Senator Walter George; Allan Shivers; the 1954 Senate election; Dixon-Yates controversy; Taft-Hartley amendments; Pat McCarran;…
- Price Daniel and the Senate Judiciary Committee; Democratic Steering Committee; Drew Pearson; Commerce Committee; Senator Alben Barkley; selection of Harry Truman as 1944 vice-presidential candidate; use of Skeeter Johnston's office for lunch;…
- Observations of the Majority Leadership period and White House years; civil rights legislation of 1957 and 1960; LBJ’s religious views; LBJ’s generosity; The Elms; Vietnam; JFK’s assassination; Bobby Baker
- McMahon and Muller's experience sailing from California to the Philippines and Australia; events surrounding the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor; training and setbacks in Australia; the February 1942 air raids on Darwin, Australia; how…