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- Insights gained from Hackett's work with the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime; giving grants to nineteen cities that wanted to develop a plan for addressing delinquency; pressure to speed up the planning…
- Working for three Kennedy brothers; housing finance management his expertise; Dick Goodwin set up eleven task forces for LBJ; contacted Haar; task to get ideas to beautify cities and states, to clean rivers, zoning, save the environment; LBJ would…
- LBJ's opinion of the Taft-Hartley legislation, Coke Stevenson's campaign methods, Dr. Homer Rainey?s dismissal and resulting University of Texas student demonstration, LBJ's campaign strategy involving the Ferguson family and small…
- LBJ's involvement with the Naval Affairs Committee in 1943 and efforts to stop absenteeism in navy jobs; food rationing in World War II; how life in the United States changed during WWII; attitudes toward military service; German-American…
- Background in politics and participating in the New Deal; Democratic party state machinery in Texas; 1956 Democrat Party convention; role of Texas Democrats in national conventions and elections
- LBJ’s speech class and debate team at Central High School in Houston; LBJ being action-oriented; LBJ’s work with, and loyalty to, Richard Kleberg; Roy Miller; Senator Alvin Wirtz; Little Congress; LBJ’s short time in law school; Maury Maverick…
- Working on the War on Poverty Task Force; JFK’s plans for “Widening Participation in Prosperityâ€; Economic Opportunity Bill; land reform proposal; extension service; urban vs. rural poverty; lack of support for rural communities; division in…
- Biographical information; Roy Hofheinz; FCC and radio/television station franchises; 1948 senatorial campaign; Hofheinz’ activities in 1948 campaign; investigation of FCC proposed by Congressman Eugene E. Cox; Cliff Durr as Chairman of FCC; LBJ’…
- Working for the New York Times; Salisbury’s trip to the Far East in 1966; getting permission to go to Hanoi; a possible connection between Salisbury’s visit to Hanoi and the Marigold negotiations; trying to convince the Vietnamese that, as a…
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ through the National Youth Administration (NYA) and Dr. J. Willis Hurst; Jones' work to develop Emory University's health services, including its medical school; Jones' work on the National…