Biographical information; early recollections of LBJ; LBJ’s relationship with FDR; LBJ’s interests; LBJ’s 1941 campaign; LBJ’s relationship with Sam Rayburn; Maury Maverick; 1948 race; Walter Winchell episode; counsel to Democratic Policy Committee, 1956; relationship between LBJ and Adlai Stevenson; 1956 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s support of JFK in 1956