Voting Rights Act 1965; Civil Rights Act; Mansfield; McCormack; Hale Boggs; Russell Long; LBJ’s feelings about open housing; differences between Ramsey Clark and Katzenbach over civil rights; LBJ’s consideration of legal problems raised by open housing; House concurrence on Senate’s open housing bill; April riots; joint session; Fortas nomination; gun control; Commission on Causes and Prevention of Violence; Yarborough’s opposition to his appointment to the Fifth Circuit; D.C. Circuit; involvement in getting a count in the House; disharmony between LBJ and Udall over the removal of land from public interest; Sparky Matsunaga; Home Rule; the Texas delegation; Wilbur Mills; Republican members of the Texas delegation; Yarborough-LBJ relationship.