How McCarthy got to know LBJ; founding the Democratic Study Group; election against Senator Edward J. Thye; committee work; the Lewis Strauss nomination; LBJ as majority leader; telephone and transportation taxes; oil depletion allowance; campaign finances; LBJ attending caucuses of the Democratic senators; the unemployment special committee; migrant labor; LBJ using committee assignments to his advantage; LBJ's power of persuasion; LBJ compared to Mike Mansfield as Senate Majority Leader; Hubert Humphrey; filibustering; nominating Adlai Stevenson; Alaska and Hawaii statehood; McCarthy's memory of various bills; Landrum-Griffin Act; the possibility that LBJ would choose McCarthy as a presidential running mate.
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