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- Biographical information; first memories of LBJ; political activists; Veteran’s Housing Council; socialized housing; Balcones Research Center; LBJ’s Senate candidacy; interest in party politics; loyal Democrats and Dixicrats; 12-vote majority;…
- Biographical information; first meeting LBJ in the 1930s when he was state director of the NYA; LBJ’s decision to run for the Senate; 1952 split in Texas Democratic Party (Shivers’ “legal delegation†seated at the 1952 national convention);…
- Biographical information; Huey Long and scandals, suicides, indictments, 1939; 30 years of service in the U.S. Congress; Armed Services Committee; 1945 trip with Naval Affairs Committee and LBJ; represented 8th Naval District; lost belief in LBJ…
- 1948 election that certified LBJ as candidate over Coke Stevenson; Stevenson's suit in state courts and efforts to unseat LBJ in the Senate; election fraud in Texas; Henry Wallace; Stuart Long's letters to LBJ while Senator; LBJ's…
- Biographical information; Holton's early jobs in Sam Rayburn's office, the House Office Building, and the Washington, D.C., police department; Rayburn's 1956 support for LBJ as favorite son presidential candidate and chairman of the…
- Roberts' career in the Texas state legislature and work on the Democratic executive committee investigating alleged voting irregularities in Jim Wells County in 1948; Roberts' relationship with Coke Stevenson and serving under him on the…
- LBJ and Senate activities, 1958; hearings resumed; LBJ and the press; LBJ and the telephone; jury trial amendment; LBJ and the Hill Country; LBJ and foreign trips; LBJ's accomplishments; LBJ personal considerations, 1959-1960; Texas issues; LBJ…