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- Oral historyx
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- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; College Star; LBJ's activities; President Evans; athletes; secret organizations; faculty; school clubs; relationship with LBJ
- Background with AFL; state legislation and LBJ's campaigns; Taft-Hartley Act; LBJ's role in labor movement; Johnson-Yarborough Senate relationship; LBJ's involvement in Texas labor matters; vocational education system
- How Ed Weisl, Sr. got Wasserman involved with LBJ’s campaign in the 1950’s; 1960 presidential campaign; political involvement of entertainment industry executives; Arthur Krim; the 1964 presidential campaign; the President’s Club; 1964…
- Biographical information; War on Poverty Task Force; members of the drafting group; Job Corps; role of the Labor Department; Willard Wirtz; women in the Job Corps; legislative input; delegation of authority; Sargent Shriver; Community Action Program…
- November 1967 report to LBJ by Bunker; Bob Komer and General Westmoreland; pacification progress and military situations; 1968 Tet offensive; Bunker's reputation that the U.S. had prior knowledge of the timing of the offensive; Bunker's…
- Biographical information; Claire Booth Luce; 1944, 1960 and 1968 campaigns; Women
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; WPA and schoolhouse; CCC Camp; Texas Power & Light; LCRA; Camp Swift; Federal grant for sewage system; LBJ’s campaigns; Gene Autry; Buck Hood; 1959 political activities; campaign organization; LBJ’…
- Situation on arrival in Vietnam as Ambassador; Chief of MAAG; General McGarr; Taylor-Rostow mission; Ed Lansdale; task force chaired by Roswell Gilpatric; impressions after traveling in the provinces; Viet Cong tenacity; Colonel John Paul Vann;…
- LBJ's meeting with Richard Nixon and members of Nixon's Cabinet following the 1968 election; LBJ's interest in finding a cure for cancer; problems enacting civil rights legislation, such as "white flight"; problems with the…
- 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…