How Kuchel became a Senator; LBJ in the Senate; LBJ's relationships with Robert Taft and William Knowland; LBJ's political skill in the Senate with both Democracts and Republicans; LBJ's interest in tidelands; the Patrick J. Hurley/Dennis Chavez election; Wayne Morse; the Lewis Strauss nomination; the McCarthy censure and the Watkins committee; LBJ's relationship with Richard Nixon; relationship between Republicans and Democrats in Senate; civil rights legislation; statehood for Hawaii and Alaska; public works; LBJ manipulating Senate votes; LBJ's reputed power of persuasion; LBJ's time in California as a youth.
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