Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 11/6/1974, by Michael L. Gillette

First meeting with LBJ; NYA; Aubrey Williams; Congressional support for LBJ; Dillard Lasseter; John Carson; political apprenticeship of LBJ; Alvin Wirtz; Sam Rayburn; Abe Fortas; Helen Douglas; father figure to LBJ; Texas sort of expansiveness and generosity; Jesse Kellam; social security disability insurance; AMA; Senator Kerr; LBJ relationship with Senator Richard Russell; LBJ as a liberal; LBJ and the Presidency; mobilization for youth; Community Action Program; legal services program; Head Start; Medicare; Helen Taussig; Advisory Council on Public Welfare Task Force on Income Maintenance (Heineman Commission); Advisory Commission on Status of Women; Esther Peterson; LBJ fixed associations between Wicky/Cohen/Social Security; Medicare; Mrs. Kennedy