Oral history transcript, Jake Jacobsen, interview 3 (III), 3/25/1988, by Michael L. Gillette

Luci Johnson's conversion to Catholicism; LBJ's religious beliefs and church attendance; James Eastland's involvement in James Coleman's appointment; LBJ using a candidate's stance on civil rights and other issues as a litmus test for choosing judges to appoint; Bill Moyers replacing George Reedy as press secretary; Reedy's contention that LBJ was isolated from accurate information; Bill Moyers' personality; the credibility gap; George Christian as press secretary; Thurgood Marshall's appointment as solicitor general; Arthur Goldberg becoming ambassador to the United Nations and his skill as a negotiator; Abe Fortas' appointment to the Supreme Court; Jacobsen's involvement with the Johnsons' legal and financial matters; Fortas as adviser to LBJ; John Gardner replacing Anthony Celebrezze as secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW); Mayor Richard Daley's problems with HEW; civil rights leaders not being invited to the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act; the Watts riots; having Texas protesters arrested and later invited to the Ranch; Jacobsen's opinion of Martin Luther King, Jr.; clothier Louis Roth's anti-Vietnam stance; Martin Luther King's FBI report.