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- Ketchum’s early days in Washington D.C. and early contact with the Johnsons; Mrs. Johnson’ interest in the history of the White House; Mrs. Johnson’s sense of humor; Mrs. Johnson’s encounter with Eartha Kitt at the Women Doers’ Luncheon;…
- Career in publishing/TV; first meeting with LBJ as secretary to Kleberg; congressional campaign of 1937; Corpus Christi Naval Base; ship canal from Arkansas Pass to Corpus Christi; Goodfellow AFB; 1957 civil rights bill; 1941, 1948 Senate campaigns…
- Working for the NYA during the depression and meeting LBJ; LBJ’s powerful leadership of the NYA; Sam Rayburn’s and Alvin Wirtz’s relationships with, and influence over, LBJ; LBJ’s parents; the influential circle of people that worked…
- Biographical information; approach and success as Ohio State University president; first acquaintance with Sargent Shriver; circumstances of working with Job Corps planning task force; reason for his selection; various other members; degree of…
- Biographical information; LBJ-press relationship; the campaign contributions issue; Philip Graham; Rayburn convinces LBJ to run in 1960; LBJ persuades FDR to put the REA into the Pedernales valley; JFK and leaks; Steve Early and James Hagerty; W.…
- Vice President Johnson's 1961 visit to Berlin; meeting LBJ in the 1950's in the United States; LBJ's affinity for Germany and German people; Brandt's visits to the U.S. in the mid-1960's; Vietnam police; LBJ's opinions…
- The Truth in Packaging bill; need for a means of easily comparing products; package sizes and shapes; Esther Peterson; the soap and detergent lobby; Herb Hollomon; compromising to pass the Truth in Packaging bill; the Revenue Act of 1968; a ten…
- Role of Special Assistant; regulatory agencies; airport congestion; White House functions; funding; B/P; Dan McKinney; effectiveness of commission; TF vs. Presidential Commission; travel organization; tourist and travel taxes; Obscenity Commission…
- Barr's work with FDIC; bringing the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve System and the FDIC together under one agency; James Saxon; controversy surrounding revenue bonds; Saxon's attempts to deregulate the banking system; problems…
- 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;…