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- Oral historyx
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- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NASA; Space Science Board; aeronautical industry; VP’s role in the space program; presidential advisory groups; Webb-McNamara agreement; lunar voyage; Axis Concept; Albert Thomas; “Space Age Management…
- Difficulty in seeing LBJ's personality through his papers; LBJ's power in the Senate and ability to persuade people to support his ideas; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Russell's reluctance to serve on the…
- Hurst’s relationship with LBJ; declining the position of White House physician; LBJ’s health and fitness for the presidency; LBJ’s decision not to run in 1968; gallstones operation in 1965; medical information and the press; psychological…
- Biographical information; LBJ's relationship with JFK; LBJ's Presidential aspirations; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with RFK; labor; 1960 campaign; Rayburn; LBJ as VP; access to JFK; Bobby Baker case; Connally-…
- How Owens got involved in the 1948 Texas Democratic Senate primary investigation; what Owens learned in questioning people in Jim Wells County for the investigation; Owens' relationship with Coke Stevenson; Owens' relationship with the…
- The Johnsons buying their home at 4921 Thirtieth Place in Washington D.C. and the layout of the house; LBJ moving to a bigger office space in the Old House Office Building in 1943; LBJ's work as chairman of a subcommittee to investigate Navy…
- LBJ’s personal additions to letters; procedure for releasing correspondence to the media; procedures in writing speeches for the President; LBJ’s input into speeches and dinner toasts; presidential speech writers as policy makers; LBJ’s speech…
- The role of Civil Service Comission in loyalty and security program; his work as president of Wesleyan College; becoming Chairman of the Civil Service Commission in the Kennedy administration, 1961; working with Vice-President Johnson on equal…
- Rooming with Lady Bird at the University of Texas in 1932; a Thanksgiving in Karnack; graduation trip to New York and Washington, D.C.; meeting LBJ; LBJ-Lady Bird wedding; Aunt Effie; a visit to the White House; Lady Bird evaluated
- Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJâ…