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- Biographical information; Community Action; LBJ and the poverty program; Sargent Shriver; the Yarmolinsky episode; Baker's responsibilities; the Employment Service; Head Start Program; OEO's mission and future; Legal Services program; 1967…
- Biographical information; Manpower Development and Traveling Act; Office of Manpower Automation and Training; Community Action agencies; business in ghetto areas; Social Security Office; Chamber of Commerce; employment programs; NAB; labor union…
- Reedy’s role as policy advisor while LBJ was Senator; airline machinists’ strike of 1966; influencing LBJ’s decisions; writing memos to LBJ; Richard Russell; Eugene Millikin; Sam Rayburn; what makes a good Senator; Millard Tyding’s loss to…
- Decision to go to work for LBJ in 1948; early days in Washington; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; episode of the kidney stone illness; trip to Mayo Clinic; 1948 campaign; advancing trips; use of helicopter for campaigning.
- Reflections on Southwest Texas State Teachers College in the 1920s; the college newspaper; Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s in Texas; Shelton's father's opposition to the Klan; Shelton's father and Jim Ferguson; type of students at Southwest…
- 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…
- Background of covering news in South Texas including Duval and Jim Wells Counties; impressions of Duval County and George Parr; vote controversy in the 1948 election; leaders in the South Texas counties; investigation by the Coke Stevenson people;…
- 1946 campaign; 1948 Senate campaign and the Fort Worth Democratic Convention; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; social gatherings at the Johnsons' Washington home; LBJ and the press; 1954 Senate campaign