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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1969-02-26 (remove)

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  • to Congress. D: Did you participate or observe his first election to Congress when he ran for the vacant seat? H: I didn't participate; I observed it; I was living in Austin at the time. And, as you know, it was a free-for-all. The state was very divided
  • Candidates ," and it was so difficult to get speakers even to debate Republican speakers on a national hookup of free time, that I had to fill in some of those myself. I enjoyed terrifically debating people like Sherman Adams, who was the campaign manager
  • of these gridiron programs that the press puts on. The two participants were Senator Johnson and myself. We had a good time and put on a pretty good show for them, I guess. Then when I went back to Washington, I was walking in the Senate floor one morning
  • could get him to reconsider this decision, and the proclamation was just being signed and ready to be released. He was in the Cabinet Room with his key civil rights advisers--that's probably where McPherson was--and the members of the press