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- Life at the Dodge Hotel; LBJ as secretary to Congressman Kleberg; Arthur Perry as secretary to Senator Connally; LBJ early participation in state campaigns; working conditions in Washington, social life, diet, etc.; LBJ a bundle of nervous energy,…
- Mrs. Jansen and three other teachers traveled to California in 1923 in a Model T Ford. Their car broke a spring in the Arizona desert and they were rescue by LBJ and friends who were returning from California to Texas.
- First meeting with LBJ in Washington, 1935 at Little Congress; closely associated in Democratic convention in 1952 and after; Mississippi vote for LBJ and presidential nomination in 1956; Kennedy-Kefauver race at 1956 convention; Adlai Stevenson…
- Texas press in 1930s; State Observer; first contact with LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; war years; KTBC radio station; 1944 Democratic state convention; 1944 and 1946 congressional campaigns; speech writing; KTBC and aggressive new policy; UN conference; San…
- Austin City Council’s concerns with civil rights issues in 1950s and 1960s; human rights commission not established until 1967; gradual desegregation of Austin; other Austin issues and Long’s activities; failed campaign for state Senate, 1954;…