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- [For interview 1, 2, and 3] Biographical information; social security; Eleanor Roosevelt; 1939 amendment to Social Security Act; Congressional committee and chairmen; unemployment insurance; disability benefits; Kennedy administration; Medicare; LBJ…
- Biographical information;1927 meeting with LBJ at SWTSC; activities at SWTSC; taught school in San Antonio; A.J. Wirtz and Welly Hopkins recommending LBJ to Dick Kleberg; relationship between Kleberg and LBJ; NYA work; LBJ's interest in helping…
- LBJ-Deason contacts while teaching in Houston and San Antonio; LBJ becomes secretary to Congressman Kleberg; LBJ returns as state director of NYA; Welly Hopkins' recommendation; LBJ's energy; Wilton Woods; LBJ at state meeting in Corpus…
- Meeting LBJ in 1948; the 1960 Democratic convention at Los Angeles; the 1960 campaign; the Texas Senate campaign; the Texas gubernatorial race in 1960 and 1962; Billie Sol Estes and the Agriculture Department; Wilson shifts to the Republican Party;…
- LBJ’s susceptibility to illness at various times; State Senator Alvin Wirtz; Ku Klux Klan in Texas; receivership of LCRA in Texas; Wirtz as assistant secretary of Interior Department; his expertise on Texas water law; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ’s…
- First met LBJ when Majority Leader; 1960 election; LBJ’s position on Commission on EEO; LBJ as VP; LBJ’s role in drafting civil rights proposals in 1963; Domestic Marshall Plan; LBJ’s view of Great Society; met LBJ after JFK assassination;…
- Student with LBJ at San Marcos Southwest Texas Teachers College, 1927; details of student expenses, influences and habits; LBJ's graduation in three years from a four-year plan; experiences as a teacher in Pearsall and Houston; Director of NYA…
- Appointment and confirmation to the ICC; Charles Webb; farm co-op cases; structure of ICC; regulation; record disposal; appeals to board of suspension; determination of rates/fair profit; merger cases; LBJ's appointment of Virginia Mae Brown;…
- Tax surcharge; balancing the budget and six billion dollars in budget cuts, pressure from LBJ; budgetary process reform; George Mahon; work on the Ways and Means Committee; appropriations.