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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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  • Date > 1969-05-08 (remove)

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  • of his leadership, he had to be. He was leader in the Senate mostly during the time that President Eisenhower, a Republican, was in the White House. And I think, and I'm sure you'd find many sources more reliable than I in that regard, as I recall
  • it with a lot of people. The man who's really the most responsible for that is Mr. Killian--James R. Killian--who was , President Eisenhower's science adviser. He had appointed Killian, I think, back in November as his response, you see, to the Sputnik
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abell -- I -- 5 incredible series of circumstances. Eisenhower had carried the state of Kentucky by over a hundred thousand votes, and my father-in-law had lost by a mere two or three thousand votes. If any one of a number
  • . The original idea, I might say, was that Milton Eisenhower would be invited to be chairman. He was willing to serve on the initial period of the commission, but did not feel he had the time to be the chairman, so he turned it down. It was then hoped that Dr