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- Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; members of the drafting group; Job Corps; role of the Labor Department; Willard Wirtz; women in the Job Corps; legislative input; delegation of authority; Sargent Shriver; Community Action Program…
- Career; contact with LBJ; Senator McCarthy; Pat Lucey; Carlyle Runge; Proxmire-Johnson controversy; 1960 Presidential election; his appointment as Administrator of REA; REA program emphasis on wholesale power supply; March 1964 Annual meeting of…
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1943; casual relationship with LBJ in House for six years; controversial 1948 election of LBJ over Coke Stevenson; LBJ’s reputation as a wheeler-dealer; insecure politically in Texas; dedication of Medical…
- Weber's educational background and college work experience; how Weber met LBJ through Willard Deason in 1940 and went to work in LBJ's congressional office in 1941; Weber's work on patronage for LBJ; staff work schedules and salary;…
- Early government positions Paul held before becoming Assistant Secretary of Defense; his views of LBJ’s decisions relating to Vietnam; availability and suitability of various planes and equipment; budgetary items; training of personnel; military…
- 1925 trip to California with LBJ; where they went in California; when and why they returned to Texas; helping some stranded women from Minnesota; the Johnsons' land and house in Johnson City.
- Early contacts with LBJ as a Congressman; relationship with Sam Rayburn; service under Eisenhower and Truman; LBJ’s friendship and loyalty; comments on the office of VP; LBJ’s sensitivity; the role of governors; Rockefeller’s comments on John…
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1955 on a visit to the Ranch; 1956 Democratic Convention; Stevenson/Kennedy campaign; Democratic Advisory Committee; 1960 convention and Stevenson’s hope for nomination; JFK’s consultation with Stevenson…
- First meeting with Lady Bird; Lady Bird as a student; early impressions of Lady Bird; life at UT; the Matthews Rooming House; arrangements on meals; the DeWitt Reddicks; the Austin Women’s Club; recollections of Eugenia Boehringer Lasseter; Lady…