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- McNamara; Generals Wheeler, Green and Westmoreland; TET Offensive; Muskie; Goldwater; Waggoner Carr; Fulbright’s relationship with LBJ; Madam Chenault; Dirksen’s power in the Senate; LBJ less insulated; LBJ’s interest in the Senate after…
- Beginning work with LBJ; LBJ's temper; LBJ's personal struggle with "liberal" and "conservative" labels; Bobby Baker; problems with McCarthy; Drew Pearson's effort to blackmail LBJ into objecting the seating of…
- LBJ’s first heart attack (1955); Hurst’s relationship with the Johnsons; LBJ’s rehabilitation; LBJ’s personality; foreign trips with LBJ; LBJ’s wit; Kennedy’s assassination.
- 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; War on Poverty task force; Labor Department; Job Corps; Youth Opportunity Centers; influence of organized labor groups; minimum wage; Willard Wirtz; Jack Henning.
- Biographical information; community organizing; Saul Alinsky; evolution of the War on Poverty; OEO legislation; Sargent Shriver; Labor Department; HEW; Community Action Program; urban affairs task force; Dick Boone; Fred Hayes; political problems;…
- The PR firm of Syers, Pickle, and Wynn; LBJ covers Texas in 1952 and 1953; the 1954 campaign; anecdote of LBJ being warmed by Warren Woodward; Clayton Hickerson anecdote; LBJ feigns snoring as a practical joke; LBJ-Yarborough relationship; LBJ, Dan…
- LBJ-Rayburn-Price Daniel relationship; details of the 1960 convention in Los Angeles, especially concerning the Texas delegation; poor accommodations for the delegation; the JFK organization in 1960; Texas delegation reacts to LBJ nomination for…
- LBJ as a congressman; civil rights as an issue in Virginia; the 1960 Democratic Convention and the selection of LBJ as a candidate for VP; Senator Harry Byrd; JFK as President