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- Observations from 1952-1953; the Smithwick suicide; LBJ’s membership on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy; Texas backing of Eisenhower for president; the Bricker Amendment; LBJ and the White House liaison staff; LBJ and the Democratic National…
- Recollections from 1953-1954; LBJ’s Texas State Networks broadcasts; Joseph McCarthy; LBJ and Knowland; Mary Rather leaving the staff; long working hours; Bill Moyers and foreign policy input
- Reminiscences from 1955; Grace Tully; LBJ’s kidney stone ailment; circumstances of LBJ’s heart attack and later despondency; LBJ’s gradual resumption of duties
- More detailed recollections of the majority leadership; the Policy Committee; Wayne Morse; Robert Taft; nature of bipartisanship under Eisenhower Administration; William Knowland and Hawaii and Alaska statehood
- Observations from 1939-1940 on LBJ’s staff members and Alvin Wirtz; Bascom Giles; Maury Maverick; Sam Rayburn; Carl Vinson; Charles Marsh; FDR; Jesse Jones; George Brown; related issues and events
- Observations of events in 1947, including Aunt Effie’s death, foreign policy issues, rural electrification, labor issues and LBJ’s decision to run for Senate
- Reminiscences of 1945 touching on the hiring of new staff, the Marshall Plan, 70-group air force; detailing LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate
- Recollections of campaigns and people involved, 1941-1946; Claud Wilde; John Connally; Charles Herring; Everett Looney; Jenkins’ contacts with LBJ during WWII army service; KVET and KTBC
- Duties with Humphrey; foreign policy assistants; development of Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam; Humphrey's interest in arms control; Food for Peace; the development of democratic institutions; health research; civil rights; NATP; founding…
- 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…