How Frantz joined the National Historical Publications Commission; LBJ's practice of allowing other people to announce good news; Nixon administration's trouble finding Frantz's replacement; Marietta Brooks; assembling an advisory board for his history project; Paige Mulhollan; funding the oral history project; George Brown's involvement with the oral history project; dealing with UT through Harry Ransom and Frank Erwin; the end of UT's funding of the oral history project; hiring oral history staff; how Frantz chose interviewees; what types of people were good/bad interviewees; truthfulness of interviewees; the value of oral history; LBJ as a womanizer; LBJ's profanity; LBJ not seeing the oral histories; wanting to interview LBJ and Mrs. Johnson.