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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1970-03-23 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, William F. Knowland, interview 1 (I), 3/23/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • leader. But as you recall in the 1952 elections, while there had been quite an Eisenhower landslide, actually it didn't reflect in either the membership of the Senate [or] the House. the Senate. We had a very narrow margin in I believe it was a margin
  • of Eisenhower. Knowland’s interest in Asian countries, his opinion of Senator Joe McCarthy, the supposed usurpation of congressional authority by the executive branch, the Civil Rights bill of 1957, the beginning of the space program, running for governor