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- Health care reform; Mary Lasker; White House Health Conference, 1965; Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act; Family Assistance Program.
- [For interviews 1 and 2] Sparkman and LBJ's careers in the House of Representatives; the Selective Service extension bill in 1941; FDR's handling of the PWA and WPA; LBJ's relationship with FDR and Rayburn; economic problems in the…
- LBJ's growing popularity throughout the state of Texas in the 1940s; work in LBJ's congressional office; LBJ's 1944 congressional opponent, Buck Taylor; efforts by oil men to defeat Sam Rayburn; Lynda Bird Johnson's birth and her…
- Biographical information; the history of medical research in the United States and other countries; Public Law 480 funds; the benefits of international collaboration in medical research; the contributions of Congressman John Fogarty to health…
- Medicare bill history and Mills’ support of it; legislative support for the Medicare bill; increased hospital costs and doctors’ fees; Social Security benefits; LBJ’s support of Medicare; changes in Medicare bill during legislative process;…
- AActivities as presidential adviser on National Capital Affairs; reorganization to commission and council system; selection of Walter Washington as mayor; council members; evaluation of White House staff operation; Pollak’s nomination of assistant…
- Biographical information; NSC; JFK’s Administration; briefing LBJ while VP; space program; LBJ’s relationship with JFK; LBJ and foreign affairs; organization of NSC operations; Senior Interdepartmental Group; Tuesday luncheons; McGeorge Bundy;…
- LBJ as majority leader; LBJ's management of committee assignments (the "Johnson Rule"); LBJ's single-mindedness in pursuing legislative goals; LBJ as vice president inadvertently left out of discussions on occasion; RFK-LBJ…