How Eckhardt and first husband, Billy Lee Brammer, came to work for LBJ; early impressions of LBJ; Ronnie Dugger; clipping articles from Texas newspapers for LBJ; LBJ's senatorial staff; socializing with the Johnsons; how LBJ treated people; Senator Robert Kerr; John Connally; Jim Rowe; LBJ's paternalism; LBJ's temper; how LBJ controlled the Senate; a birthday party LBJ threw for Eleanor Roosevelt; Eckhardt's personal life during the 1950's.