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  • Date > 1969-07-17 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Herman Talmadge, interview 1 (I), 7/17/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • concluded we had only one or two days to wrap up conference reports, and I didn't see any chance of a divisive issue where my vote would be necessary or a record vote. So I walked by and I sat down by Lyndon and I said, "Lyndon, Kennedy's going
  • Proxmire of Wisconsin were friends of LBJ while he was Majority Leader; LBJ lost Southern votes with the Civil Rights Act of 1957; LBJ’s presidential ambitions were evident in 1959; advised by friends to avoid the VP offer; Kennedy "Irish Mafia" rivalry