Biographical information; how Nash met Lyndon Johnson; LBJ's 1937 election to the House of Representatives; Herman Brown's involvement in the development of the Colorado River; Alvin Wirtz's friendship with LBJ; Wirtz's death; LBJ's relationship with E.H. Perry; lack of support for LBJ among the wealthy in the Texas oil industry; LBJ's interest in helping Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Nash attending a White House dinner; the "Big Inch" pipeline; oil prices from the 1920s to 1950s; W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; Wilmer St. John Garwood's election to the Texas Supreme Court; LBJ's 1948 election to the U.S. Senate; the 1956 Democratic National Convention; the relationship between LBJ and Sam Rayburn; Nash's nomination as an alternate delegate to the United Nations; Ed Clark; Texas businessmen who were friends with LBJ; Nash's opinion of Lady Bird Johnson.