- Biographical information; how Nash met Lyndon Johnson; LBJ's 1937 election to the House of Representatives; Herman Brown's involvement in the development of the Colorado River; Alvin Wirtz's friendship with LBJ; Wirtz's death;…
- biographical information; how Dean got a position as a lawyer in Austin; Dean's military and law career history; the political situation in Jim Wells county in the mid-1940s; the connection between Dean's law firm and the George Parr…
- Biographical information; prosecution of George Parr while U.S. district attorney; fist knowledge of LBJ; friendship with Dan Moody; appointment as master in chancery for Jim Wells County for 1948 election controversy; Judge J. Whitfield Davidson;…
- Biographical information; 1941 and 1948 campaigns; 1948 state convention; State Executive Committee and certification of LBJ as a candidate in 1948
- Biographical information; family history; Sam Houston; Sam Johnson’s speech to Texas House of Representatives regarding Ku Klux Klan; Congressman Kleberg; Bob Phinney; Col. Ernest O. Thompson; LBJ’s use of a helicopter in 1948 campaign; labor’…
- Relationship with Coke Stevenson; Stevenson’s background; Stevenson’s 1938 campaign for lieutenant governor; campaigns for governor; Stevenson and the Fergusons; W. Lee O’Daniel and his relationship with the Stevensons; Homer Rainey;…
- Biographical information; first association with LBJ in Congress; LBJ’s chief motivation and goals; 1943 and 1948 elections; Sam Rayburn; Charlie Murphy; oil/gas industry; Bob Kerr; Natural Gas Act of 1938; Senator Francis Case; Area Basin…
- Roth’s childhood; meeting and interacting with LBJ at Southwest Texas (teachers’ college); White Stars organization; Professor Howard Mell Greene; Roth’s work for the NYA; relationship between the NYA and WPA; Senator Alvin Wirtz; President…
- Biographical information; investigation of the returns in Jim Wells County of the run-off between Coke Stevenson and LBJ; Stevenson’s campaign style; Stevenson as governor; political machine in South Texas (Parr Machine); Manuel Ramon, County…
- Meeting and working for LBJ during the 1948 campaign; LBJ’s campaign staff; going to Washington D.C. to work for LBJ; Christmas with the Johnsons; Taylor’s tasks on LBJ’s staff; LBJ’s views on the UMT bill and General MacArthur hearings;…