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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1979-05-07 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • some suggestion by someone, but I ran on a write-in as a Democrat. One thing I didn't like was that the Democratic Campaign Committee furnished money to my opponent, Senator [Edgar A.] Brown, when I "laS a Democrat, too. But he was a Democratic
  • Election to the Senate in 1954; LBJ as Senate Majority Leader; Dick Russell; committee assignments; LBJ moving to the left; 1964 Civil Rights Bill; 1965 Voting Rights Bill; 1957 filibuster; the Southern Manifesto; HR3; LBJ’s hunger for power