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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-11-26 (remove)
  • Contributor > Jones, James R. (remove)

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Oral history transcript, James R. Jones, interview 1 (I), 11/26/1968, by Dorothy Pierce McSweeny (Item)
  • /loh/oh Jones -- I -- 5 when he was a young congressman in 1940, he was head of the House Democratic Campaign Committee. And after the 1940 elections in which President Roosevelt was reelected and the Democratic Congress was maintained, Drew Pearson
  • LBJ’s decision not to run for re-election in 1968; Martin Luther King’s death and LBJ’s view of King; LBJ on civil rights; open housing bill; trip to Chicago 4/1/68; the idea of moving the Democratic National Convention from Chicago; Chicago’s Mayor