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- Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful…
- Geissinger’s description of a White House photographer’s duties, etiquette, and judgments on how and when to photograph the President, LBJ’s response to various situations, personal anecdotes from his vantage point of working for the…
- Biographical information; time in New Orleans at Tulane University; studying in Europe; member of the Department of Surgery at Tulane; military service in 1942-1944 with the Surgeon General; post-war medical research program with the Veterans'…
- Biographical information; SWTTC; contact with LBJ; Harris Blair debating club; Student Welfare Council; 1928 Democratic Convention; Black Stars; LBJ as Blackman's best man; LBJ's activities and family; President Evans; dating in San Marcos
- Going to work for Senator Thomas Kuchel; presidential appointments from California during Dwight Eisenhower's administration; political factions in California in the 1930s and 1940s; Earl Warren's early law and political career; Kuchel…
- Early ideas and leadership in Congress that led to the War on Poverty; getting the depressed areas bill, also known as the area redevelopment bill, passed in 1961; administration and funding of the area redevelopment programs; housing legislation in…
- LBJ's tenure as Democratic leader of the Senate; his relationship with other Senators
- LBJ's feelings about Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954; LBJ as a medical patient; a 1955 highway construction bill; LBJ's cousin, Margaret, and her family; LBJ's smoking habits after his 1955 heart attack; going on walks with LBJ; the…
- John Connally's appointment as secretary of the navy; the 1961 Lucy B Convair crash near the LBJ Ranch; LBJ's restlessness as vice president; LBJ's relationship with Robert and John Kennedy; the Johnsons' Tennessee walking horse…
- Boating with LBJ and the Secret Service; how LBJ was offered the job working for Congressman Richard Kleberg through James Cage; Winters' work for Lower Colorado River Authority Board to neutralize conflict between LCRA and the Pedernales…