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- Biographical information; setting up NYA offices; residence programs; staff meetings; NYA visitors; personnel; LBJ techniques; political aspirations; publicity; roadside parks; school projects; 1937 Congressional race; 1941 Senate race
- Met LBJ as a student at a political meeting in Blanco, TX; Hopkins campaigned for Democratic party nomination to the Senate from 19th District, TX; Sam Johnson as a friend and supporter; Alvin Wirtz; Richard Kleberg's election to Congress, 1931…
- 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…
- 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…
- How he met LBJ; impressions of LBJ; Keating’s mediations between Texas’ head of WPA and LBJ as head of National Youth Administration, 1936; finding qualified youths for the Texas NYA project; LBJ’s management of Texas NYA.
- Biographical information; San Marcos; Professor Greene; White Stars; NYA; roadside parks; projects; programs; LBJ's activities; Lady Bird; Alvin Wirtz; 1937 Congressional campaign
- 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…
- 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…
- Discussion of LBJ's days as Director of the NYA in Texas, 1935-1937