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- Initiation of the Peace Corps with Bill Moyers and Sargent Shriver; LBJ’s attitude toward, and involvement with, the Peace Corps; work as LBJ’s junior military Aide while LBJ was Vice-president; LBJ’s relationship as vice-president to JFK and…
- Biographical information; Hobart Taylor, Sr. and LBJ; civil rights cases in Michigan; NAACP; Export-Import Bank; Cliff Carter; early association with LBJ in 1960; 1960 and 1964 campaigns; JFK; Plans for PROGRESS; Jerry Holleman; RFK and LBJ;…
- Biographical information; first meeting LBJ; LBJ’s liberal and New Deal identification; Gerald Mann; President’s court packing plan; 1948 bitter campaign; Taft-Hartley Law; Horace; Busby; Roy Wade; Walter Jenkins; John Connally; Sam Houston…
- Biographical information; met LBJ in 1930s through Texas attorneys Harris Melasky and Martin Winfrey; 1943 subcommittee on naval affairs; 1948 Senate race and subsequent lawsuit; advice to LBJ regarding running for Senate Minority leader in 1952;…
- The Walter Jenkins incident; Senator Barry Goldwater; LBJ choosing a running mate; Robert Kennedy; Marvin Watson; the 1964 convention.
- Richard Goodwin; Great Society speech; initiation of Great Society programs; major legislative acts; Everett Dirksen; Bill Moyers and his use of power; Horace Busby; Walter Jenkins; Valenti’s 'I sleep better because Lyndon Johnson is in the…
- Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the…
- Rowe’s upbringing; working for the United Mine Workers; early social interaction with LBJ; Maury Maverick; how Jim Rowe came to work for LBJ; LBJ’s mentee relationships with Sam Rayburn and Alvin Wirtz; how LBJ hellped Jim Rowe get into the Navy…
- 1948 campaign; John Connally’s role; Lady Bird and LBJ as campaigners; fund raising; Senators Wirtz and Russell; FDR and his death; venison story; LBJ’s relationship with his employees; letter count; Glenn Stegall; Walter Jenkins; compassion for…