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- Oral historyx
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- Acquaintance with LBJ during the Kleberg years; LBJ's ambition and energy; influence of Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; the 1941 campaign; Jim Ferguson's role in 1941; role of postmasters and country commissioners in Texas state politics;…
- Circumstances of entering Southwest Texas Teachers College; job at college; impressions of the young LBJ; LBJ and the 1928 Democratic National Convention; Dr. Evans’ garage apartment; LBJ’s interest in the College Star; lack of money among…
- Student activity fund; Gaillardian; LBJ and Mylton Kennedy; Mary Brogdon; Whiteside’s letter about postmastership; repercussions from Whiteside’s role in Lyndon Johnson Day at Southwest Texas.
- Early contacts with LBJ; 1961 appointment as Assistant Attorney General
- Tenure in Lands Division of AG office; procedures for presidential appointment; RFK-LBJ relationship; JFK assassination; work at White House in 1964 as detached duty from AG assignment; White House staff assignments; appointments in AG’s office…
- Shriver's opinion that Job Corps would yield results quickly; how Shriver's work for the Chicago Board of Education guided his work in Job Corps; the idea of putting the Job Corps under the Department of Defense; LBJ's support for…
- Jack Valenti; Senator Thomas Dodd and the Mite Company; the staff's responsibility to behave honorably; Lloyd Cutler and automobile companies; anti-trust laws; getting podiatry included in Medicare; the staff's relationship with…
- John F. Kennedy's (JFK) plan regarding primaries going into the 1960 Democratic National Convention; assigning JFK staffers to specific state delegations; JFK's decision to address the Texas delegation; JFK's decision to ask Lyndon…
- Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ…