Boyhood days in Johnson City; family friendship with LBJ, who preferred older people as friends; LBJ and Crider brothers' visit to California where Ben Crider was employed; boyhood activities on ranches in Blanco City near Johnson City; mother's influence on LBJ; keeping LBJ in college; memories of Depression years; NYA work; work with LBJ in Congress and in Houston with Brown & Root during WWII; campaigning for LBJ in 1937; LBJ's early desire to be a public servant; LBJ's quality of natural born leadership; snipe hunt story; deer hunting; LBJ's job on country roads; Crider's part in the 1956 Democratic convention in Chicago
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