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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)
  • like that. G: Did he play a role in the highway legislation, to establish the interstate highway system? T: Well, Senator Harry Byrd came before our Public Works Committee in 1956, and opposed that bill on the method of financing and helped to defeat