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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- Biographical information; choice of LBJ as VP; LBJ as chairman of EEO Commission; operation of HEW; liaison with Presidential staff; first cabinet meeting; assessment of cabinet meetings; poverty bill/program; ESEA; LBJ's assistance in passing…
- Newsletter published by the Friends of the LBJ Library. For more about the Friends, including membership information, please see the LBJ Library website…
- Boggs' earliest memories of the Johnsons in 1941; LBJ's World War II military service; LBJ's 1948 Senate election; socializing with the Johnsons and Sam Rayburn; Boggs' and Rayburn's interaction during the 1960 presidential…
- Biographical information; First impressions of LBJ as President; functioned initially as McPherson’s deputy; farm programs; free trade; Kennedy Round; draft system; personal opinion of President; authority in dealing with departments and agencies…
- How he met LBJ in 1935; LBJ’s ambitions and absorption with politics; LBJ as a new Congressman and loss of the Appropriations Committee appointment to Albert Thomas; Sam Rayburn and the Board of Education; rural electrification; Civil Rights Act…
- Appointment to Presidential Advisory Council for the Office of Economic Opportunity while superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh; details of Pittsburgh’s pre-primary program in 1963-1964 (later called Head Start under OEO); composition of the OEO…
- Biographical information; contact with LBJ; NASA; Space Science Board; aeronautical industry; VP’s role in the space program; presidential advisory groups; Webb-McNamara agreement; lunar voyage; Axis Concept; Albert Thomas; “Space Age Management…
- Difficulty in seeing LBJ's personality through his papers; LBJ's power in the Senate and ability to persuade people to support his ideas; LBJ's relationship with Senator Richard Russell; Russell's reluctance to serve on the…
- Hurst’s relationship with LBJ; declining the position of White House physician; LBJ’s health and fitness for the presidency; LBJ’s decision not to run in 1968; gallstones operation in 1965; medical information and the press; psychological…
- Biographical information; LBJ's relationship with JFK; LBJ's Presidential aspirations; 1960 Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with RFK; labor; 1960 campaign; Rayburn; LBJ as VP; access to JFK; Bobby Baker case; Connally-…