How Tully came to know LBJ; FDR's relationship with LBJ and other congressmen; FDR's recording decisions made in Cabinet meetings; how Tully came to work for FDR; FDR's decision to call congressmen back from the service in WWII; Tully's jobs after FDR's death and coming to work for LBJ in 1955; Democratic Policy committee procedures and how members were chosen; comparison of how the Policy Committee ran under Senator Johnson and then Senator Mansfield; LBJ's work on civil rights legislation, including relationships with Southern friends and Mrs. Roosevelt; Tully's work with the Preparedness Committee; LBJ's selection of staff for his senatorial and vice-presidential offices; Tully's activities since her retirement in 1965; Joe McCarthy; Hubert Humphrey; Democratic conventions and FDR's selection of Truman as a running mate; Senator Johnson's Senate Committee appointments and why he chose JFK for Foreign Relations Committee; comparison between FDR and LBJ as leaders; story about Tully giving a bust of FDR to LBJ and receiving a bust of LBJ; 1955 Democratic Women's Club meeting in San Antonio; JFK's invitation for Tully to come to the White House to see if his desk was the same one used by FDR.
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Oral history transcript, Grace Tully, interview 1 (I), 10/1/1968, by Joe B. Frantz, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed August 29, 2025, https://discoverlbj.org/item/oh-tullyg-19681001-1-78-63