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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- LBJ and the NYA in 1935; LBJ-Sam Rayburn relationship; political philosophies; Griffin-Landrum Bill; Ralph Yarborough; Allan Shivers; LBJ & JFK; Rayburn and the Kennedys
- LBJ's awareness of the importance of symbols, weighs whether Lynda should continue to live in an all-white dormitory at UT; LBJ considers inviting civil rights leaders to the Ranch; LBJ-staff relationship; Jack Valenti; George Reedy; Walter…
- First meeting LBJ at Sam Houston High School in 1930; LBJ’s debating team; LBJ becoming Richard Kleberg’s secretary; worked for LBJ in Kleberg’s Washington office; life at the Dodge House; budget problems; advising Congressmen of loans and…
- Austin City Council’s concerns with civil rights issues in 1950s and 1960s; human rights commission not established until 1967; gradual desegregation of Austin; other Austin issues and Long’s activities; failed campaign for state Senate, 1954;…
- 40 trips; Discover America; LBJ’s trip to Senegal while VP; Cadillac diplomacy; JFK approved LBJ’s approach on trips; Ayub Khan told LBJ that Russians would be testing JFK in international area; Ayub Khan’s visit to the LBJ Ranch; camel-driver…
- Initial involvement with the War on Poverty; work with the Council of Economic Advisers; income distribution; tax cut; 1964 campaign and poverty problem; meetings on poverty issue; differences in concept of poverty; key people involved; rejection of…
- Going to work for Senator Thomas Kuchel; presidential appointments from California during Dwight Eisenhower's administration; political factions in California in the 1930s and 1940s; Earl Warren's early law and political career; Kuchel…
- LBJ and Senate activities, 1957; Middle East problems; disarmament issue; open curtain proposal; USIA; J. Edgar Hoover; 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Little Rock crisis; Senators Walter George and Richard Russell; Sputnik; space hearings; Johnson…
- Time limit in dealing with Vietnamese situation; the Tet Offensive; Weyand's role; press reaction; impact of Tet on South Vietnamese forces; intelligence; Cronkite's visit to Vietnam; the pacification programs; decision to write Tet!;…