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- Oral historyx
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- Montague's involvement in Hop Tac; the intended cooperative nature of Hop Tac; why Hop Tac was unsuccessful; security as the first priority in village pacification; differences of opinion between Colonel Jasper Wilson, General William DePuy and…
- Roy Miller recommends LBJ to Richard Kleberg on November 29, 1931; Congressman Kleberg encourages LBJ in 1935 to take the position of state administrator of Texas NYA; a visit to the Ranch; a dinner at the White House
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NRA; LBJ as state director; National Youth Administration; Harry Drought; John Nance Garner; NYA-WPA relationship; roadside parks; 1948 helicopter campaign; LBJ as a Congressman; competition between…
- Deregulation of natural gas; 1965 national convention; LBJ’s relationship with JFK; depressed areas bill; federal pre-emption bill; question of Democrats caucusing.
- LBJ as Senate Majority Leader in 1959 when the Landrum-Griffin Act passed; JFK as floor manager; May 1966 Pat McNamara died and Griffin succeeded him in the Senate; Michigan delegation opposing LBJ as VP because he wasn’t strong on labor or civil…
- Initial involvement with the War on Poverty; work with the Council of Economic Advisers; income distribution; tax cut; 1964 campaign and poverty problem; meetings on poverty issue; differences in concept of poverty; key people involved; rejection of…
- Biographical information; beginning years of the Social Security Administration; Democratic and Republican approaches to the program; social security and the cost of living; amendments through the years; 1956 disability amendment and the opposition…
- Friendship with LBJ; Dr. Bob Montgomery; LBJ couldn't stand mediocrity; Ink Lake Park Project; Herman Brown; depression; WPA and NYA projects; C.N. "Pap" Avery; investigation of Army Mail Service; 1946 campaign plans; Senator Alvin…
- National Youth Administration; WPA; personnel; Harry Drought; Alvin Wirtz