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- Meeting LBJ; Albert Thomas; seeing his wife for the first time; events before and during the 1960 convention; LBJ accepting the vice-presidential nomination; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Valenti’s role in the 1960 convention; advertising in the…
- Planning the JFK/LBJ 1963 trip to Texas; JFK and LBJ visiting Houston; Valenti’s role in the Texas trip; Connally/Yarborough feud; JFK and LBJ visiting Ft. Worth; events surrounding the assassination of JFK; LBJ becoming President and the plane…
- 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…
- Civil Rights Bill of 1964; LBJ calls Pickle to commend him on his vote; Pickle votes against open housing; Pickle as "President Johnson's Congressman;" Robert Poage and Williamson County; regrets voting against open housing; LBJ,…
- The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
- 1964 campaign structure/organization; Arthur Krim; one-day New England campaign trip; daisy commercial; Barry Goldwater; Mrs. Johnson’s campaign trip through the South; inner workings of the campaign; Ambassador John Bartlow Martin; campaign…
- Foreign trips with LBJ: Senegal, France, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey; visit with Pope John; LBJ’s kidney stone problem at Pope John XXIII’s funeral
- Kennedy’s assassination and LBJ’s handling of the transition; gallbladder removal; LBJ’s display of his surgery scar to reporters; trip to Nicaragua; LBJ’s throat surgery and hernia repair; LBJ’s attempt to make Hurst White House physician…
- Richard Goodwin; Great Society speech; initiation of Great Society programs; major legislative acts; Everett Dirksen; Bill Moyers and his use of power; Horace Busby; Walter Jenkins; Valenti’s 'I sleep better because Lyndon Johnson is in the…