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- Echo Park Dam; interstate highway program and billboards; Allan Shivers; Senate investigations; public housing bill; extreme measures taken to get senators to the Capitol to vote; getting senators out of Washington to win a vote; minimum wage bill;…
- Optimism in the LBJ Administration going into the 89th Congress in 1964 with a large Democratic majority; Medicare and education as legislative priorities; the powerful alliance of Republicans and southern Democrats; O'Brien's awareness of…
- Biographical information; contacts with LBJ; LBJ's message on Indian Affairs; Bennet's selection; Indian claims; Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction Act; Civil Rights Act; Pueblos; equal employment for Indians; legislation for Indians; health…
- Biographical information; long involvement with and extensive work on Vietnam; first duties in Saigon; captured documents; geographical regionalism in Vietnam; infiltration; armed struggle and political struggle; impressions of Diem; the…
- Organization and operation of DOT; the audit function; decentralization; friction between the Office of the Secretary and Administrators; difficulties within the Office of Secretary itself; evaluation of Alan Boyd; meetings and retreats; concept of…
- Article in FOREIGN AFFAIRS; Wisemen’s meetings; no military plan for victory in Vietnam; San Antonio formula; divided opinion regarding Vietnam among cabinet members; task force to study sending additional troops to Vietnam; RFK-Sorenson…
- 1948 Senate race; black vote in Houston; George and Herman Brown; Gus Wortham; Houston law firms; Judge James Elkins; Taft-Hartley; support of Connally for Governor; meetings of LBJ’s district men; LBJ’s speech to Mid-Continental Oil and Gas…
- The 1968 proposed tax surcharge to address rising costs of the Vietnam War and curb inflation; support from the business community for the tax surcharge; Civil Rights Act of 1968; Everett Dirksen's role in passing the cloture vote; the Housing…
- Discussion of issues associated with LBJ's political service; federal aid to public schools; Supreme Court appointments
- LBJ’s civil rights interest; Sam E. Johnson; Ku Klux Klan issue in Texas legislature; farm to market roads; LBJ as secretary to Dick Kleberg; rural electrification; Russell Chaney; NYA; discussion with Rayburn regarding LBJ running for Senate in…