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- First contact with LBJ; the 1963 union-steel company difficulties; LBJ's active interest; LBJ sends representatives to negotiations; negotiation teams meets in DC on LBJ's invitation; I.W. Abel; Secretaries Wirtz and Connor; LBJ's…
- The origin of Shriver’s interest in poverty-related issues; Shriver’s involvement with trade unionism, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the board of education in Chicago; Shriver’s work in the 1940s with Eunice Kennedy on the Continuing…
- Biographical information; Landrum Griffin bill; relations between Senate staffs of JFK and LBJ; JFK LBJ relationship; labor and the 1960 campaign; Walter Jenkins; Vice President LBJ involved in Texas politics; 1963 trip to Texas; JFK assassination…
- Middle- and upper-class American fear and hostility toward the poor; closing Job Corps centers in 1968 due to budget cuts; formal evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity programs; comparison of Bill Haddad and Edgar May as head of the OEO…
- Adam Clayton Powell’s role in Congress and his criticism of Shriver and the Office of Economic Opportunity; the political ramifications of dispersing federal funds without the input of local politicians; John Connally’s criticism of War on…
- Biographical information; Senator Richard Russell; LBJ’s decreased popularity and its sources; civil rights; LBJ’s relationship with Russell; activating battleship New Jersey; Russell’s criticism of LBJ’s Administration; editorial cartoon;…
- Details of political career and first contacts with LBJ when he was a Congressman; background of tidelands legislation; 1952 Senate race against Tom Connally; support of Eisenhower's presidential race; weekly meetings of Texas Congressional…
- Initial contact for appraisal work; earlier contacts with Johnsons; plan of approach to project; recommendations on donations of papers; values of papers of a president (LBJ’s specifically); procedure and technique; confidentiality; LBJ’s…
- Background; history of restaurant ownership; 2 ‘J’s; Holiday House on Barton Springs Road; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s way of shaking hands and meeting people; other meetings with LBJ; borrowed $50,000 from one of LBJ’s trusts for Holiday House…