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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- Duties as Secretary, LBJ’s Vice Presidential days, Trips with Johnson, Fehmer’s opinion of LBJ’s relationships with the Kennedys, JFK’s Assassination and aftermath.
- LBJ’s first heart attack (1955); Hurst’s relationship with the Johnsons; LBJ’s rehabilitation; LBJ’s personality; foreign trips with LBJ; LBJ’s wit; Kennedy’s assassination.
- Reasons for JFK’s 11/63 trip to Texas; detailed description of the day of the assassination, the motorcade, assassination, hospital, swearing-in; and flight back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s and Kennedy staff’s behavior following the…
- LBJ’s frustration at the end of his presidency, especially regarding the Soviet Union and Vietnam; LBJ’s attempt to meet with Nixon and Soviets; Urban League dinner in New York; LBJ’s concern over press coverage of anti-war, anti-LBJ picketing…
- LBJ's relationship with John Connally; first statewide radio broadcast; LBJ on the stump; the idea of the helicopter; preparedness the key theme; LBJ's reputation as a Congressman; LBJ and minority groups; campaign appearances; close vote…
- Relationship with LBJ, who was a frequent visitor to Davis' church; service on the National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity; the LBJ-Nixon transition period; Vietnam
- Deason's family history; Deason's uncle Charles' work around the Stockdale, Texas, area; Deason's parents and siblings; Deason's educational background; how Deason became a teacher and, later, an attorney; how Deason went to…
- Advancing LBJ’s meeting with the Pope; Laitin’s falling out with LBJ; Bob Fleming as Deputy Press Secretary; trip to Mexico with LBJ; Christmas trip to Rome; Colonel James Swindal; trying to be anonymous in Rome while advancing LBJ’s arrival;…
- Reflections of purpose of patrol of destroyer Maddox in August 1964; exercising right of freedom of the seas; evaluation of performance and investigation of Maddox; views on media coverage; Operation Pierce Arrow; Rolling Thunder campaign; the…