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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1969-02-19 (remove)

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  • in 1961 and 1962, sought to find some common solutions to the problems. It might be use- ful to briefly describe what those problems are. Appalachia as a region is afflicted with the same set of problems as rural America at large. BaSically
  • know you're interested in getting to the subject matter of Lyndon Johnson. I became quite active in Democratic politics. This was occasioned because there was a legislative bill which was put up, passed the legislature--put up as a referendum
  • in there. Was there ever any question as to what your politics were or whether or not that would influence the appointment? T: Not a one. I was never asked whether I had supported the Democratic Party or whether I was, in fact, a Democrat. I had in 1964 contributed
  • overseas ought to portray America in proper perspective. By that I mean specifically that it seems eminently [un] fair to refer and to mention only things that [are] really short-comings and failures and mention nothing at all of our successes