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- LBJ’s 1955 heart attack and recovery; psychological analysis of LBJ; LBJ’s sense of humor; LBJ’s smoking habit; LBJ working from the hospital while recovering in 1955
- Political background; LBJ's support of poverty program in Detroit; use of phrase "The Great Society" and how it began; role of Public Officials Advisory Committee; Detroit Freedom March with MLK in 1963; creation of HUD; Model City…
- First meeting LBJ in 1958; forming the Austin Foreign Policy Club with George Hoffman and Horace Busby; a visit to the Ranch about 1958; refusing an appointment as general counsel to the army; surprise appointment as chairman of the Administrative…
- Engelhard’s family history; marriage to Fritz Mannheimer; leaving France for Spain to avoid testifying against Mr. Daladier and Mr. Reynaud; conditions and traveling during World War II; fleeing to Argentina and later returning to Europe; moving…
- Visit to Mrs. Johnson and President Johnson at the White House; Andre Meyer; LBJ’s attitude toward Catholicism; Mike Mansfield; bombing of the Capitol.
- The possibility that LBJ made Symington chief of protocol to smooth relations with his father, Stuart Symington; experiences that prepared him to be chief of protocol and the transition into the job; Symington’s relations with the state department…
- Biographical information; the firm of Powell, Wirtz, and Rauhut; Alvin Wirtz characterized; John Connally characterized; LBJ chews out Walter Jenkins; working on LBJ's Senate staff; the organization of the LBJ Senate staffs; Bobby Baker…
- Family political history; early recollections of the Johnsons; campaigning in 1952 and 1960 for/with his father, Stuart Symington; biographical information; 1960 convention and their belief that Stuart Symington would be asked to run for VP; LBJ’s…
- Symington’s limited contact with LBJ after 1960; relationship between LBJ and RFK; 1964 campaign; the Poverty Program; Dave Hackett; how Symington became the Executive Director of the President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and his work to…
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ in 1948; Assistant to Executive Secretary of the AFL, Austin in 1950; 17 months in Korea; AFL and CIO merger in 1957; strained relations with LBJ; appointment by George Meany as Assistant Secretary of Labor then…