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  • Series > Transcripts of Oral Histories Given to the Lyndon B. Johnson Library (remove)
  • Date > 1985-02-05 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Barbara Jordan, interview S-I, 2/5/1985, by Elizabeth Carpenter (Item)
  • was there during the effort to impeach Richard Nixon, and if there was any single experience I had in the Congress which made me know that public servants needed a very high and keen ethical sensitivity, my experiences in Watergate certainly underscored that for me
  • as a professor; Jordan's involvement in Congress during Watergate and the Nixon impeachment hearings; Jordan's sense of optimism; the large quantity of money that is necessary to run for political office; women in politics; Jesse Jackson's political career