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- Background, first meeting with LBJ, first impression of LBJ, Northeast Texas Municipal Water District - how it was founded and started, Senate election in 1948, Election 1956, Campaigning in 1960 for presidential nomination, Campaigning in 1960 with…
- Adlai Stevenson; 1952 presidential election; Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Gene McCarthy; John Sparkman; Amon Carter; Senator Richard Russell; Kentucky Derby; LBJ’s relationship with President Eisenhower; economics
- Circumstances of going to work on what later became known as the Pentagon Papers; the study to answer questions about the Vietnam War; granting of authority to requisition files within the Pentagon; CIA provides materials; White House material;…
- Early professional contact with Lady Bird during the presidency; Bess Abell as the First Lady’s Assistant; requirements for a first lady’s wardrobe; Lady Bird and clothes; LBJ’s influence on Lady Bird’s wardrobe; LBJ’s generosity with…
- 1960 convention in Los Angeles; the Biltmore Hotel; decision to take the Vice-Presidential post with JFK; connection with Johnson family in Oglethorpe County, Georgia; Lady Bird Johnson’s grandfather as founder of Baylor University; the LBJ…
- Career in publishing/TV; first meeting with LBJ as secretary to Kleberg; congressional campaign of 1937; Corpus Christi Naval Base; ship canal from Arkansas Pass to Corpus Christi; Goodfellow AFB; 1957 civil rights bill; 1941, 1948 Senate campaigns…