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- Professional background; entrance into White House Fellows Program in 1965; description of the Program and selection of the first 15 finalists; detailed evaluation of the Program and LBJ’s interest in it; Maguire’s work on Jack Valenti’s…
- Head Start; domestic program; War on Poverty; contrast between John Connally and LBJ types; LBJ's frustrating life as VP; sale of Weslaco radio and TV station; death of Sam Rayburn; LBJ's problems with the press; LBJ's temper; Walter…
- Outline of journalistic career; LBJ's unique handling of press during both Senate and White House years; Kennedy and Johnson humor; Jacqueline Kennedy's appreciation of LBJ; LBJ's swearing-in ceremony in Dallas; Kennedys thoughts of…
- LBJ; War on Poverty; Title I; Community Action; OEO; Model Cities; Head Start; food assistance; administration of programs; VISTA
- Staff officer of Eisenhower; treated as family by Ike; met LBJ in 1953; became LBJ’s close friend, politically and socially; Tidelands Bill; foreign aid; Ike got 83% of legislation through Congress; good political leader; knew intimately…
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; briefing LBJ while VP; Indochina; Vietnam; Diem; Roger Hilsman; William Bundy; Mac Bundy; John McNaughton; Interagency Planning Staff; Tonkin Gulf Resolution; peace negotiations; press leaks; bombing;…
- The 1948 campaign; elected to Congress in 1954; first meeting LBJ in 1947; LBJ and the McCarthy censure; LBJ and the Texas delegation; LBJ, Rayburn, and the Civil Rights Bill of 1957; helping LBJ with legislation in the House; Vice President LBJ and…
- Jacobsen's early work for LBJ; protocol for entering LBJ's office; a trip to Camp David with LBJ; allowing LBJ to relax from the stress of his duties; Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., Abe Fortas, and Tom Mann in the Dominican Republic in…
- Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ's religious beliefs and church attendance; James Eastland's involvement in James Coleman's appointment; LBJ using a candidate's stance on civil rights and other issues as a…
- Visiting President Truman and a trip to the Truman Library; phones and photographers in the Truman home; lessons learned on a trip to Honolulu; why LBJ did not travel outside the US more often; incident involving LBJ purchasing a dead horse;…