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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- Presidential Task Force on the War on Poverty; drafting War on Poverty bill; Shriver’s dual responsibilities; Community Action; Adam Yarmolinksy episode; problems of the new agency; Legal Service problems; return to the Justice Department and…
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ; Lynda and Luci Johnson; LBJ’s relations with the press; Senator Styles Bridges; visits to the Ranch; LBJ’s resentment of press criticism; LBJ’s sister Josefa; Bobby Baker; Johnson’s lack of trust of…
- The John F. Kennedy (JFK) administration's relationship with Carl Vinson and other southern Democrats; funding for an aircraft project and Vinson's argument with a staff member over his decision to support JFK; the knowledge and influence…
- Obstacles in getting information to LBJ; Esther Peterson's reluctance to speak to LBJ directly and her search for a person to present her views to LBJ; access to LBJ and his isolation from opposing viewpoints; Prokop's work on LBJ's…
- 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…
- Jordan’s impressions/recollections of Senator Richard Russell; long hours worked by Senators Russell and LBJ; Jordan’s impression of LBJ as a 'very lofty' person; Senator Russell’s opposition to the 1957 Civil Rights Bill; Russell’…
- Biographical information; JFK’s civil rights legislation appointments under LBJ; first meetings with LBJ; candidates for 1960; LBJ’s politics; civil rights: past and present; appointment to Puerto Rico Commission; Dominican Republic issue;…
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ through National Youth Administration; LBJ’s 1938 campaign for Senate and decision not to contest the loss; details of 1948 Texas Democratic Convention Executive Committee’s certification of LBJ over…
- Biographical information; 1960 “rump session;†Henry Cabot Lodge; campaign trips; Democratic ticket; Catholic issue; McCarthy censure; Watkins Committee; Vice Presidency; assassination; Connally-Yarborough feud; Dallas; funeral; Vietnam; press…