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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- 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;…
- Biographical information; how they came to Washington; meeting the Johnsons; Dick Kleberg; Texas State Society; Sam Rayburn; LBJ’s early influence in Washington; gaining support for LBJ in Dallas; 1960 convention; women’s tea party tours;…
- Biographical information; SWTTC; contact with LBJ; Harris Blair debating club; Student Welfare Council; 1928 Democratic Convention; Black Stars; LBJ as Blackman's best man; LBJ's activities and family; President Evans; dating in San Marcos
- Starting work for Marvin Watson; Jones’ work responsibilities; logging White House calls; LBJ cutting expenses; turning off the lights at the White House; reviewing FBI reports on prospective hires/appointees; LBJ’s desire to appear honest and…
- LBJ's opinion of the Taft-Hartley legislation, Coke Stevenson's campaign methods, Dr. Homer Rainey?s dismissal and resulting University of Texas student demonstration, LBJ's campaign strategy involving the Ferguson family and small…
- Middle- and upper-class American fear and hostility toward the poor; closing Job Corps centers in 1968 due to budget cuts; formal evaluation of the Office of Economic Opportunity programs; comparison of Bill Haddad and Edgar May as head of the OEO…
- Duties with Humphrey; foreign policy assistants; development of Humphrey's thinking on Vietnam; Humphrey's interest in arms control; Food for Peace; the development of democratic institutions; health research; civil rights; NATP; founding…
- 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…
- History and interpretation of the Taft-Hartley Act; Walter Reuther; the closed shop and the union shop; the building trades; picketing; the various unions; LBJ and labor legislation; Brown and Root and the union; interest of George Meany and David…
- Wozencraft's work on a study group related to the revision of international treaty laws; the 1968 United Nations (UN) Conference on the Law of Treaties negotiations over how treaties should be invalidated and terminated; concern that proposed…