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Miller, Merle, 1919-1986
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- for the Philadelphia Record. Miller then served in the U.S. Army Air Corps as an editor of Yank magazine, from 1941 to 1945. After the war, he also served as contributing editor at Time magazine, 1945, and editor at Harpers magazine from 1947 to 1949. Miller's books
- moving back to Texas to attend the law school at the University of Texas in Austin, receiving his law degree in 1937. During his time in law school he worked under Johnson at the National Youth Administration (NYA), and also worked on Johnson’s 1937
- LBJ Connection: Student of LBJ's at Sam Houston High School, Houston, Texas; roommate at the Dodge Hotel, Washington D.C.; assistant secretary to U.S. Congressman Richard Kleberg; long-time political associate of LBJ
Keach, Carroll, 1914-1983
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- LBJ Connection: Student of LBJ at Sam Houston High School, then NYA employee; long-time friend and political supporter; editor, Robstown Record, Robstown, Texas
- LBJ Connection: Long-time friend and political supporter of LBJ; staff, Texas Relief Commission, 1933-1936; staff, National Youth Administration, Texas, 1936-1943
- LBJ Connection: U.S. Congressman, 1937-1944 and Senator, 1944-1981, Washington; Long-time friend of LBJ; Donor of campaign speeches and other materials related to the 1964 presidential campaign
- from the Jewish Institute of Religion and was ordained as a rabbi in 1928. He also studied at Hebrew University and the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem, and received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. During his time
Hobby, Oveta Culp, 1905-1995
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- LBJ Connection: Long-time acquaintance of LBJ
- , until his resignation, December 31, 1978. During his time in Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on House Administration (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses), Joint Committee on the Library (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses
- LBJ Connection: Long-time political associate and friend of LBJ, Fourteenth Congressional District, Texas
- of Defense. From 1969 to 1991 he again worked as an attorney in Washington, D.C. at the Clifford & Warnke firm. During this time he served as an unofficial adviser to President Jimmy Carter and was Chairman of First American Bankshares. In 1991 he wrote
- Bio: William John Jorden (b. 1923) was a reporter, writer, and a diplomat. He was a foreign correspondent with the New York Times from 1952 to 1961. He joined the State Department in 1961, as a member of the Policy Planning Council, 1961 to 1965. He
- Bio: John M. Cabot was born on December 11, 1901, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his career, Cabot was a United States Ambassador to five nations between 1954 and 1965, spending much time in Latin America. During his forty-one year career
Parker, Edith H., 1905-1985
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- LBJ Connection: Long-time friend of the Johnsons; Employee of Senator Tom Connally, Texas, 1934-1944; Defense Department employee, 1950s
- LBJ Connection: Long-time friend of LBJ; Law partner of Abe Fortas
- in the Solicitor General's Office. From 1955 to 1962 he served as President of the Washington Housing Association. Horsky was a lecturer at the University of Virginia Law School from 1958 to 1962. During that time, served as Chairman of the Washington, D.C
- Administration (ICA) and the Agency for International Development (AID). After his retirement in 1979, Huntington continued working part time at AID where he had access to the historical records of the agency. He began providing the Eisenhower Library
- Carolina legislature from 1953 to 1959, and at the same time, a member of the Democratic National Committee (1953-1961). He was the North Carolina delegate to Democratic National Convention and President of the North Carolina Young Democrats Committee
- LBJ Connection: Long-time Democratic Party leader
- , special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson. He stayed on as assistant to the President after his fellowship ended, and assisted with speeches and became secretary of the Cabinet. After his time in the White House, Maguire worked for Merrill Lynch before
- in the office of Justice William Curtis Bok in Philadelphia until 1953, when he was admitted to the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. During this time, Higginbotham''s commitment to ending racism grew in response to witnessing Thurgood Marshall argue
- of Minneapolis. He won by the biggest majority in the city's history to that time, and was re-elected in 1947. Humphrey was elected to the U.S. Senate from Minnesota in 1948, and was re-elected in 1954. Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson assigned Humphrey
- . Finding the daily work in a law office tedious, Hays began almost immediately to dabble in politics, first managing an unsuccessful race for Congress by his father in 1922, then looking for his own chance to run for office. He was for a long time hampered
- LBJ Connection: Long-time government official; U.S. Ambassador to India, 1963-1969
Bundy, McGeorge, 1919-1996
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- . The next decade he spent teaching history at New York University. During this time Bundy published his Pulitzer-prize-winning book Danger and Survival: Choices About the Bomb and the First Fifty Years, in which he chronicled decisions made about nuclear
Cuneo, Ernest L., 1905-1988
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- Newspaper Alliance and was later editor-at-large of the Saturday Evening Post. For a number of years he wrote a syndicated column, "Take It or Leave It," which appeared three times a week.
- 1993. He returned to government service for a short time, as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Department of the Treasury, 1989 to 1992. In 1993 he was a member of the National Commission to Ensure A Competitive Airline Industry.
- department. She married William Brown Wallace in 1945, and in 1953 they relocated to Nuremberg, Germany and spent the next several years living in Germany and France. During this time, she was recruited to put on fashion shows for military dependents
Horn, Stephen John, 1931-
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- positions in the arts, economic development, and the United Way, Horn served part-time for 16 years as a founding member and past chairman of the National Institute of Corrections of the U.S. Department of Justice, and for thirteen years, as a member
- was an aide to Lyndon B. Johnson during his time as Senate minority leader in the mid-1950’s, and also worked as his secretary in the 1960’s. In 1965 he joined the firm of S.D. Jeffrey Associates as a designer. From 1968 to 1994 he ran his own firm, Bob
- LBJ Connection: Long-time friend of LBJ
- youth and part-time employment for needy students. At 26, he was the youngest state director. In 1937 he resigned as Texas Director of the NYA to enter the special election for the 10th Congressional District, called after the death of Representative
- Ambassador William C. Bullitt. Later he served as third secretary at the American Embassy, during which time he travelled extensively throughout Russia. Bohlen returned to Washington in 1935 to join the Division of Eastern European Affairs. Although Bohlen