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- LBJ’s recovery from 1955 heart attack, thoughts about becoming President, attitude toward civil rights, and race relations; covers period of 1955-1957.
- Discusses several trips LBJ made as Vice President; describes a visit between LBJ and the Kennedys at George Brown’s house, and a visit to Prime Minister Nehru’s house.
- Biographical information; how Haselton joined LBJ's staff in 1953; Christmas shopping with LBJ; Haselton's duties as part of LBJ's Washington D.C. staff and what it was like to work for LBJ; LBJ's persuasive and intuitive nature…
- Work with Rebekah Baines Johnson on the Johnson family genealogy; Mrs. Johnson's hope for her son
- Lawson's work for John F. Kennedy in 1958-1959; gaining support for JFK among African American delegates; Kennedy's announcement that LBJ would be the vice-presidential nominee; Mary McLeod Bethune's opinion of LBJ; Lawson's…
- Rather's work for Senator Alvin Wirtz and how it led to doing some work for then-Congressman LBJ; Rather's decision to become a permanent member of LBJ's staff; office activities the day of the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor…
- How Rather went to work for LBJ; LBJ's work on National Youth Administration (NYA) projects on the West Coast before shipping out with the navy in World War II; Lady Bird Johnson's interest in photography, movie-making and drama; Rather…
- Description of LBJ’s mother, story about campaign speech for Vance Hartke and a congressional candidate whose name LBJ could not remember, taping LBJ’s speeches, trip to Acapulco and friendship with Aleman and Guajardo, discussions about whether…
- Valenti describes working at a desk inside LBJ’s office after 1958, why LBJ delayed announcement of his presidential candidacy in 1960, reactions of LBJ and his supporters to JFK’s offer of Vice Presidential nomination, relationship between LBJ…
- Reactions of Johnson supporters to LBJ’s acceptance of Vice Presidential nomination, meeting of Johnson organization with Kennedy organization at Hyannis Port, campaign train trip in the South with LBJ in 1960, 1964 campaign trip with Mrs. Johnson…