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- Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)x
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- 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…
- Political biography; meetings with President Johnson; impressions of LBJ; development of Republican Party in Oklahoma; work as Nixon's national campaign manager in 1966 and 1967; impact of LBJ's administration on state of Oklahoma
- 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…
- Biographical information; Low’s father’s work in LBJ’s 1937 Congressional campaign; 1941 special election to fulfill Senator Morris Sheppard’s term; explanation of the east Texas ballots that allowed W. Lee O’Daniel to win over LBJ; Low’…
- Biographical information; early support of and work toward a transportation department; recollections of Najeeb Halaby; LBJ assumes presidency; Alan Boyd and others involved in development of DOT; opposition to DOT by FAA and McKee; Dean's…
- Early acquaintance with LBJ; how LBJ related to the press as a senator; Alsop's interactions with LBJ; Alsop's support of LBJ in 1964 against Goldwater; Alsop's and Philip Graham's role in JFK's selection of LBJ as the vice-…
- Ed Welsh and the adoption of a plan to land a man on the moon; early competition between military branches and their fear of releasing secrets to NASA; how U.S. dominance in air power during World War II led other countries to advance technology in…
- Biographical information; meeting LBJ while working for Congressman Kleberg; LBJ’s relationship with FDR, Ickes, and Alvin Wirtz; George Brown; Sid Richardson; Bob Anderson; LBJ as a congressman; LBJ’s press relations; Bobby Baker; LBJ and Coke…
- Abe Fortas; deterioration of Democratic Party machinery; John Bailey; prior knowledge of 3/31 announcement; Homer Thornberry; 1968 Democratic Convention; relationship with President eroded in 1968 over Vietnam; McNamara’s move to the World Bank.
- Political background; LBJ's support of poverty program in Detroit; use of phrase "The Great Society" and how it began; role of Public Officials Advisory Committee; Detroit Freedom March with MLK in 1963; creation of HUD; Model City…