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- Javits’ assessment of LBJ’s work in Congress; LBJ’s power in Congress; LBJ rewarding his supporters; comparison of LBJ and Bill Knowland and Everett Dirksen; the Lewis Strauss nomination; bills related to the Supreme Court; 1957 Civil Rights…
- Chancellor’s career history; getting to know LBJ. Mrs. Johnson’s effect on LBJ; European view of LBJ; Relationship of LBJ with the Kennedys. Chancellor’s appointment to the Voice of America and the following aspects of VOA: national radio…
- Biographical information; coverage of creation of LCRA in 1934; Alvin Wirtz; opposition to Wirtz and Buchanan forces in the legislature; water rights issues; public power; first association with and impressions of LBJ during the NYA period; Mrs.…
- Contacts with LBJ; Chairman, AEC; NASA; Dr. Glenn Seaborg; CIA Director; test moratorium; Bay of Pigs; U.S. Intelligence Board; Senate lack of control power over CIA; Cuban Missile Crisis; Latin America; H.A.R. Philby, Burgess and McLean defections…
- Biographical information; Democratic and political activity background; LBJ’s acceptance of VP nomination; Orville Freeman; positions on JFK/LBJ staffs; 1961 Grain Act; struggle with Congress; JFK assassination; appointment as Under Secretary;…
- Biographical information; Sam Ealy Johnson; LBJ as a teen; Rebekah Baines Johnson; high school in Johnson City; teachers’ state meet; trip to California, 1925; Tom Martin.
- San Bernardino; Martin’s law office; Herbert and Charlie Henderson; 1937 Congressional campaign; meeting Jack Dempsey; contacts with LBJ in 1928; working for LBJ in congressional office; office assignments; Executive Reorganization Bill, 1938;…
- President Roosevelt calling congressmen out of military service during World War II; Mildred Moody; Connally's naval career; Daniel Moody; Alvin Wirtz; the Johnsons' business properties in Austin in the 1940's; Hardy Hollers; the…
- Connally did not ever keep a diary or maintain a large quantity of unnecessary papers; going to work for LBJ in 1939; a typical work day; Victor "Cap" Harding; distributing money through an ad hoc Congressional Campaign Committee; joining…
- Biographical information; knew LBJ as majority leader; Housing Committee, a sub-committee of Banking and Currency Committee of the Senate; staff director Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, 1965; Earle Clements; Kentucky Senator Symington…