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- LBJ staff members' involvement in political activities; Department of Transportation legislation and Chairman Chet Holifield; compiling a list of LBJ's domestic accomplishments for speeches and a possible 1968 campaign; March 31, 1968…
- Visitors during LBJ's hospitalization after appendix surgery in 1937; LBJ's efforts to befriend political opponents, such as C. N. Avery and Polk Shelton; LBJ meeting Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Texas; Lady Bird Johnson's trip to…
- Driving from Texas to Washington, D.C. with LBJ's mother, Rebekah Johnson; the Columbia Road apartment the Johnsons rented in Washington, D.C. in 1938; taking Rebekah Johnson to a congressional reception hosted by President and Mrs. Franklin…
- The Transportation Department; a comprehensive auto safety plan including all related issues; Ralph Nader; automobile manufacturers' response to legislative action; passing the Auto Safety bill; the history of studying highway and auto safety;…
- The Truth in Packaging bill; need for a means of easily comparing products; package sizes and shapes; Esther Peterson; the soap and detergent lobby; Herb Hollomon; compromising to pass the Truth in Packaging bill; the Revenue Act of 1968; a ten…
- Stilwell's relationship with General William Westmoreland; the CBS/Westmoreland lawsuit; Stilwell's involvement in the Draper Commission regarding foreign aid; Stilwell's experience with Vietnam before 1963 and his assessment of the…
- Initiation of the Peace Corps with Bill Moyers and Sargent Shriver; LBJ’s attitude toward, and involvement with, the Peace Corps; work as LBJ’s junior military Aide while LBJ was Vice-president; LBJ’s relationship as vice-president to JFK and…
- Safe Streets Bill; use of electronic surveillance (telephone wire taps) for national security; federal aid to local law enforcement; assessment of LBJ
- Biographical information; how Castro became the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador; Castro's interaction with Fidel and Raul Castro of Cuba and confusion regarding Castro's name; Castro's opinion of, and involvement in, the relationship…
- FNMA; reforms brought about as a result of the 1968 Housing Act