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- Oral historyx
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- Activities as Manpower Administrator; the Department of Labor; OEO; NAB; proposed reorganization of the Department of Labor in 1968
- Biographical information; Tidelands Act; Old Miss and the James Meredith crisis; early work in anticipation of the Peace Corps; VISTA and poverty program; National Service Program; Sargent Shriver; recollections of day of the JFK assassination; RFK
- Indian problems; Indian Bureau; Philco Nash; Robert Bennett; Alaska; VISTA; transition; relations with Mexico; oil; tidelands
- Final months of LBJ Administration; RFK Memorial Stadium
- Corcoran's interest in LBJ and Texas politicians in the 1930s; FDR's Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; LBJ's 1937 congressional campaign; LBJ's support for FDR; Alvin Wirtz; Corcoran's work with LBJ and the Lower Colorado…
- LBJ's interests in Sputnik and civil rights; activities at the LBJ Ranch the night of the Sputnik launch; Corcoran's relationship with FDR; the 1936 Minimum Wage Bill; Corcoran's preference for a career in law rather than politics;…
- Biographical information; work as a welfare department investigator; involvement in the War on Poverty and the Urban League, how Berry came to be the director of the Community Action program; early community-related programs; funding programs such…
- Confrontation in Community Action Agencies, especially in Chicago, Syracuse, Philadelphia and Cleveland; Community Action Agency guidelines; political involvement in local Community Action organizations; the Green Amendment; getting community action…
- Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; tin smelter; agricultural issues; impressions of LBJ and his relationship with other Senatorial leaders
- Her involvement in Texas politics; Maury Maverick; meeting LBJ; Malcolm Bardwell; Dick Kleberg; LBJ leaving Kleberg’s staff; Aubrey Williams; meeting Mrs. Johnson; LBJ early career; Dr. Walter Prescott Webb; socializing with the Johnsons; her…