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- Oral historyx
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- Pesticides; conservation and environmental programs
- Election to the Senate in 1954; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Dick Russell; committee assignments; LBJ moving to the left; 1964 Civil Rights Bill; 1965 Voting Rights Bill; 1957 filibuster; the Southern Manifesto; HR3; LBJ’s hunger for power and…
- Biographical information; first memories of LBJ; political activists; Veteran’s Housing Council; socialized housing; Balcones Research Center; LBJ’s Senate candidacy; interest in party politics; loyal Democrats and Dixicrats; 12-vote majority;…
- Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; 1948 kidney stone attack; B52s, B70s, B36s; Senate Armed Services Committee; LBJ’s heart attack in 1955; NASA; impressions of LBJ and his…
- Biographical information; White House Barber Shop; visit to the Ranch; LBJ's personal thoughtfulness; 3/31 announcement; LBJ's change in hair style; White House staff members; trips with LBJ; transition
- Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-…
- Taylor family history; Mrs. Johnson's immediate family; business dealings of T.J. Taylor, Lady Bird Johnson's father; Taylor's and Lady Bird's childhoods and education; how Taylor met LBJ; LBJ's early political career;…
- Biographical information; Bean's educational background and notable people Bean grew up with; the first time Bean met LBJ; Bean's political career in the early 1940s and after his return from WWII; Bean's work as a Texas state…
- LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate in…
- 1960 convention in Los Angeles; the Biltmore Hotel; decision to take the Vice-Presidential post with JFK; connection with Johnson family in Oglethorpe County, Georgia; Lady Bird Johnson’s grandfather as founder of Baylor University; the LBJ…