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  • Date > 1969-03-12 (remove)
  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
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Oral history transcript, E. Ross Adair, interview 1 (I), 3/12/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • to the Senate--and at the time when Sam Rayburn was Speaker. Do you recall what you knew or had heard of Lyndon Johnson when you first came into Congress? A: Yes. I did not know him, of course, but I knew of him. I knew of him by reputation and having read
  • Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961
  • Biographical information; early impressions of LBJ; LBJ's relationship with Sam Rayburn; LBJ and foreign policy in the Eisenhower Administration; LBJ as majority leader; the 1960 election; the JFK legislative program; Gulf of Tonkin Resolution