Former member of the Texas House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1941-46.

Former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1950-57. Observations on political career of Lyndon Johnson; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952; Johnson presidential race of 1960; Texas Democratic politics, 1952-56; Fifty-third State Legislature; governor’s role in state party organization; state Democratic Convention of 1951; gubernatorial election of 1954; veterans land board controversy, 1954-55; insurance scandals of the mid-1950s; lame-duck governor.

Former member of the Texas House of Representatives, 1920-22, 1946-50; journalist; brother-in-law to former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences in the Thirty-seventh Legislature; comments about former Governors Pat Neff, James and Miriam Ferguson, and Coke Stevenson; comments about former Senator Joe Bailey and Sam Johnson (Lyndon Johnson’s father); Southwest Texas machine politics; meeting with William Jennings Bryan.

Reminiscences of her husband’s political career; Al Smith campaign of 1928; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; excerpts from her Mansion Diary.

His associations with the administration of Governor W. Lee O’Daniel; appointment as executive assistant to O’Daniel, 1941; personal impressions of O’Daniel; transactions tax; relations between O’Daniel and the Legislature; O’Daniel and the Democratic State Executive Committee; O’Daniel and patronage; appointment as Secretary of State for Texas, 1941; O’Daniel senatorial campaign, 1941.

Former state legislator, state district judge, federal district judge. Her experiences and views as a member of the Texas House of Representatives; appointment as state district judge by Governor James Allred; unsuccessful congressional campaign, 1956; nomination for the Vice-Presidency, 1952; Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaign, 1956; women’s activities; Kennedy-Johnson campaign, 1960; appointment as federal district judge, 1961; Kennedy assassination.

Governor of Guam, 1963-72. His experiences as secretary of Guam during the governorship of Bill Daniel; economic and educational development of Guam; congressional bill for the establishment of an elective governorship for Guam.

Attorney, former Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, 1946-47. His first legislative campaign; “Immortal 56” and the Transactions Tax; Governor W. Lee O’Daniel and his relationship with the House; life as a freshman representative; highway legislation and the Bond Assumption Act; his race for the House Speakership; views on Governor Coke Stevenson; Speaker of the House and committee assignments; Gilmer-Aiken Act and public education.

Former member of the Texas House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, attorney general, and governor of Texas, 1956-63, United States Senator, 1953-57.

Journalist, public relations executive, former press secretary to President Lyndon B. Johnson. His experiences and impressions during his tenure as presidential press secretary.