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- Oral historyx
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- Starting work for Marvin Watson; Jones’ work responsibilities; logging White House calls; LBJ cutting expenses; turning off the lights at the White House; reviewing FBI reports on prospective hires/appointees; LBJ’s desire to appear honest and…
- Senate years, including initial contact with LBJ; House Naval Affairs Committee; biographical information; Joseph McCarthy; tin smelter; agricultural issues; impressions of LBJ and his relationship with other Senatorial leaders
- Biographical information; FDR-LBJ relationship; Estes Kefauver; Austin liberal community
- Chairman Intergovernmental Coordinating Committee on Vietnam in March 1964; his duty to brief VP on Far East; after T.G. massacre in 1961 had two jobs: to dredge information from Ambassador Averell Harriman and to brief Congress and VP; painful…
- Views on the duties of a Senate leader; circumstances of assuming office; 1959 speech relating views and reaction to speech; LBJ and committee assignments; opposition to depletion allowance; LBJ's support for Proxmire's re-election; 1957…
- Pesticides; conservation and environmental programs
- Biographical information; the source of Lasker’s interest in health programs and beautification; becoming involved with politics; early encounters with LBJ; legislation and funding for housing the elderly; 1960 election and convention in Los…
- 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…
- Contact with LBJ; dedication of Richard Byrd Memorial Statue; award for the Hubbard Medal; Senator Byrd's garden party; Jane N. Smith Medal; building dedication; White House Historical Association; presidents book; The Living White House; LBJ…
- Biographical information; association with LBJ; LCRA; Alvin Wirtz; Charles Marsh; Jim West; Wesley West; social problems and reform; LBJ's heart attack; Brown & Root