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- Roberts' career in the Texas state legislature and work on the Democratic executive committee investigating alleged voting irregularities in Jim Wells County in 1948; Roberts' relationship with Coke Stevenson and serving under him on the…
- Early professional contact with Lady Bird during the presidency; Bess Abell as the First Lady’s Assistant; requirements for a first lady’s wardrobe; Lady Bird and clothes; LBJ’s influence on Lady Bird’s wardrobe; LBJ’s generosity with…
- Biographical information; how Abram met Richard Russell; Georgia’s county unit system; Russell and civil rights; Herman Talmadge; Charlie Bloch; Thurgood Marshall’s appt. to the Supreme Court; Supreme Court appointments; the Democratic…
- Solidarity Day, June 19, 1968; Solidarity Day chairmen Bayard Rustin and, later, Sterling Tucker; Dean Rusk's son, David Rusk, and his work on Solidarity Day; estimating the number of people expected for the Solidarity Day event; speeches by…
- The creation of the LBJ Memorial Grove and the committee that oversaw its planning; finding stone in Texas to create a megalith for the memorial; the location of the memorial in Lady Bird Johnson Park and the creation of the Lady Bird Johnson Park;…
- Marder's career history covering foreign affairs; LBJ's foreign affairs-related experience as he entered the presidency; LBJ's credibility gap in the press; LBJ's tendency to exaggerate; Marder's August 1964 coverage of the…
- Feldman's involvement in a select committee that investigated the discharge of General Douglas MacArthur; Senator Richard Russell's role in that committee; the relationship between Russell and LBJ; Walter Jenkins.
- How Eckhardt and first husband, Billy Lee Brammer, came to work for LBJ; early impressions of LBJ; Ronnie Dugger; clipping articles from Texas newspapers for LBJ; LBJ’s senatorial staff; socializing with the Johnsons; how LBJ treated people;…
- Why LBJ hired Eckhardt; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; downplaying LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; how Eckhardt’s opinion of LBJ improved; the Southern Manifesto; LBJ’s public vs. private opinions.
- McNamara’s first contact with LBJ in 1960; assessment of Johnson’s personality and abilities; McNamara’s assessment of successes and failures of Defense Department while he was Secretary; relationship of Defense and State Departments; Congress…