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- Oral historyx
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- Visits with LBJ immediately after the Kennedy funeral; Rauh’s encouraging LBJ and John Connally to do something about desegregation; working with LBJ and Clarence Mitchell; LBJ criticizing the ADA; the convention of Atlantic City; Reuther; Dr.…
- Biographical information; first recollections of LBJ; Charlie Marsh; early impressions of LBJ; supported LBJ in the 1948 campaign; LBJ won Senate Minority Leadership over Lister Hill; LBJ didn’t support Adlai Stevenson adequately; strained…
- Biographical information; family history; Sam Houston; Sam Johnson’s speech to Texas House of Representatives regarding Ku Klux Klan; Congressman Kleberg; Bob Phinney; Col. Ernest O. Thompson; LBJ’s use of a helicopter in 1948 campaign; labor’…
- Biographical information; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Martin; school in Johnson City; childhood memories of LBJ; Rebekah Johnson's desire for LBJ to attend college; George Johnson; Sam Johnson; Booker's mother loaning LBJ $100; living in Houston…
- Biographical information about Albert Thomas; Thomas’ race for Congress in 1936; appointment to House Appropriations Committee; Thomas’ contributions to Houston and Harris County; First acquaintance with LBJ; role of a politician’s wife; Lady…
- Reminiscences from 1950-1952; LBJ’s Texas trips; Eisenhower; the gas bill; Donald Cook; Korea; the Preparedness Committee; election as Democratic whip; the Douglas MacArthur firing; Jenkins’ campaign for Congress; death of Alvin Wirtz; acquiring…
- The effect of the JFK assassination on the Pickle campaign; LBJ and Pickle's campaign; Pickle's accelerated swearing-in and his vote on wheat sales to the USSR; LBJ and the appointment of John Connally as secretary of the navy and his…
- Stevenson’s personal habits; Stevenson’s humor; Stevenson’s interest in his ranch and hunting; Stevenson’s opinion of FDR; Murphey’s later involvement in political affairs; comparison of LBJ and Stevenson as ranchers.
- John F. Kennedy's (JFK) effort as a young politician to become a better communicator; how Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) legislative power shifted when he became vice president and then president; JFK's and LBJ's different styles in…