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- Biographical information; gaining employment with the NYA; staff; advisory boards; NYA-WPA relationship; Harry Drought; student programs; visitors; staff meetings; Gibb Gilchrist; LBJ's abilities and activities; chapel at North Texas State…
- Biographical information; LBJ’s two years as teacher and debate coach at Sam Houston High School, Houston; LBJ’s role as Congressman Kleberg’s secretary; life in Washington for underpaid federal workers; Dodge Hotel; Little Congress and LBJ’…
- Biographical information; met LBJ in Austin while NYA Administrator; social and political contacts with LBJ beginning in the late 1930s; LBJ
- First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness and…
- National Youth Administration
- How Olson came to work in the Texas office of the National Youth Administration (NYA) answering mail with L.E. Jones; NYA office staff and space in Austin; LBJ's visit to the Austin NYA office; the NYA advisory board; long work hours; Jesse…
- Discussion of LBJ's days as Director of the NYA in Texas, 1935-1937
- Biographical information; Adviser to Secretary Ickes on Negro affairs; National Committee on Industrial Recovery; Harvard thesis research; integration of cafeteria services at Department of the Interior; “The Black Cabinet;†duties at Department…