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- Biographical information; 13 years in DC; disillusioned with LBJ after he became President; Great Society Program to haunt us for years: it awarded indolence; LBJ a politician, not a statesman
- Becoming personal secretary; LBJ’s personal interest in employees; Bobby Baker; characterizing Johnson family members; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ’s acceptance as VP; campaign; LBJ as VP; duties as Lady Bird’s secretary; traveling with…
- Criticism of LBJ’s domestic programs and Vietnam War credibility gap; polls; DNC; Vietnam settlement; appraisal of LBJ; relationship with Lady Bird.
- First meeting LBJ in 1948; certification of the election; vote contest; Allan Shivers; Sam Rayburn; Governor Stevenson’s campaign in Texas; Democratic Organizing Committee; Rayburn’s influence in Texas Party; Democratic Advisory Council; 1956…
- Contacts with LBJ as Senator in 1958 while a budget officer for the State Department; LBJ's reactions to State Department's "guidance" for his foreign country visits as VP; LBJ's concern for good impressions by his party in…
- Biographical information; Jacques Reinstein; planning for postwar Italy; anti-Italian feelings on the part of the British; Palmiro Togliatti and the communist movement in Italy; General John Hilldring; political developments in postwar Italy;…
- Biographical information; disagreed with Roosevelt and LBJ on social politics; "handouts" and on methods used; Stevenson lost by 89 votes to LBJ for Senate; fraud claimed; Roosevelt’s influence helped LBJ; 25-30 newspaper against LBJ as…
- LBJ's 1937 Congressional race; campaigning in Elgin; relations with LBJ; 1941 and 1946 Congressional races; how LBJ represented his constituents; last contact with LBJ; biographical information
- 30 years in the Senate; first meeting with LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Senator Russell; LBJ as Minority Leader; Committee on Internal Security; McCarthy issue; tidelands issue; becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee with the help…
- 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…