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- Biographical information; 1948 Senate campaign; organizing political support; the “one hundred executives†meeting at the White House; impressions of LBJ; civil rights; Barbara Jordan; football recruiting for the University of Texas.
- Discusses his early association with LBJ as Secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ's wedding; NYA appointment; LBJ's early working habits; the 1941 and 1948 Senate campaigns; the War Production Board; Kilday-Maverick relationship; Taft-…
- Personal relationship with LBJ; LBJ and his family; LBJ as a young boy and relationship with his parents; early relationship with Alvin Wirtz; Allison's first meeting with Lady Bird; memory of Lady Bird as very shy; days at the Ranch
- Mr. Cohen's memory of LBJ's involvement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the 1950s; Cohen's personal interactions with LBJ and his staff; Cohen approaching Bureau of the Budget director Kermit Gordon with a request…
- Allan Shivers and Democrats for Eisenhower in 1952; the role of LBJ and Sam Rayburn in the 1956 Texas State Democratic Convention; Paul Butler and the Democratic Advisory Committee; party at Dewey Bradford's house; how LBJ won county and…
- Background information about self, How she came to work for Johnson and the first week on the job.
- Interaction with LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and other politicians; LBJ’s senate race and maneuver to get on Texas ballot; conflict with oil industry because LBJ did not support mandatory oil increase; supporting Kennedy; Nixon’s Supreme Court argument;…