Recollections of meeting LBJ in 1958 as a UT students and later in 1960 during Kennedy-Johnson campaign; contacts with LBJ when Speaker of House; LBJ's continued help and influence on Barnes' career; Johnson-Connally political base; support of LBJ's Vietnam policy; post-presidency contacts and work with LBJ and Lady Bird Johnson and LBJ State Park; Hubert Humphrey's 1968 Texas campaign; LBJ's role in politics in post-presidency period
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Oral history transcript, Ben Barnes, interview 1 (I), 6/28/1971, by David G. McComb, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 30, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-barnesb-19710628-1-79-100