Biographical information; Holton's early jobs in Sam Rayburn's office, the House Office Building, and the Washington, D.C., police department; Rayburn's 1956 support for LBJ as favorite son presidential candidate and chairman of the Texas delegation to the Democratic National Convention; the "Board of Education" and how it worked; Rayburn's and LBJ's views on the Landrum-Griffin labor bill; a 1961 House Rules Committee argument between Rayburn and Howard Smith; Rayburn's relationship with his constituents and his time spent in Texas; comparing the political philosophies and methods of LBJ and Rayburn; LBJ's and Rayburn's work on the 1957 civil rights bill; Rayburn's involvement in Dr. Walter Splawn's appointment to the Interstate Commerce Commission; Rayburn's relationship with Eugene Cox; Rayburn's relationship with people in the oil and gas industry; Holton's involvement in the 1960 and 1964 presidential campaigns; Rayburn's involvement in LBJ accepting the vice presidential nomination in 1960; Robert Kennedy's opposition to LBJ's vice presidential nomination; LBJ as a campaigner; Rayburn's death; the father-son relationship between LBJ and Rayburn.