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- Oral historyx
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- Life in Johnson City in the early 1900’s; electricity coming to the area; school and education in Johnson City; chores for children; high school graduation; mother’s and father’s influence on young LBJ; LBJ’s interest in Johnson city…
- LBJ's 1949-1950 concern over the rising cost of defense; LBJ's work on the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee; Lynda's first grade school in Austin; Austin family activities, like dance classes and visiting friends; LBJ's travel…
- Hiring Gene and Helen Williams and their job duties; Lady Bird Johnson's massages; Sugar Pickle's health; Jac Gubbel's assistance in landscaping the LBJ Ranch and Mr. Erb's help with the trees and yard work; hiring a foreman for…
- Foreign investments in Australia; U.S. investment in Australia; President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey’s 1966 visit to Australia; Australian anti-Vietnam War demonstrators; planning LBJ’s trip to Australia; planning a Prime Minister’s…
- Randall’s young adulthood and exposure to banking and politics; his interview with LBJ for a position on the FDIC; McFadden Act of 1927; Randall’s admiration for LBJ and Mrs. Johnson; banking concerns; Joe Barr; Jim Saxon; Doug Dillon; being…
- LBJ's election as Senate minority leader in 1953; the small numerical difference between majority and minority parties in the 1953 Senate; committee assignments; the Johnsons' social life in early 1953; the Eisenhower inauguration and…
- Activities and volunteer work in the spring of 1953; dinner parties and socializing with Washington, D.C. friends; a party the Johnsons threw at the Carlton Hotel; Mamie Eisenhower; LBJ's political career in 1953; the early stages of public…
- The Johnson family's home in San Marcos; what Lady Bird Johnson thought of LBJ's early career prospects; LBJ's response to a job offer from Charles Marsh; LBJ's ability to remember names; Mrs. Johnson's reluctance to marry…
- LBJ's early congressional and senate campaigns; Governor James V. Allred's support for LBJ's 1937 congressional campaign to succeed James P. Buchanan; LBJ's opponents in the campaign; 1937 campaign strategy and contributors to…
- Furniture for the LBJ Ranch; living at the Ranch for the first time in the summer of 1952; LBJ's legislative work in 1952, including military waste and tidelands; the Republican and Democratic National Conventions in Chicago; controversy…