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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1979-03-02 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Robert P. Griffin, interview 1 (I), 3/2/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Johnson was there on the Senate floor in his leadership role, [I don't remember] a great deal about his participation. Of course, Kennedy was the floor manager of the bill in the Senate. He was the chairman of the full committee, or perhaps he
  • rights; LBJ’s speech at University of Michigan launching the Great Society legislative program; LBJ’s success dealing with Congress was legendary; objections to Justice Fortas in 1968 as political maneuver to prevent Nixon making an appointment; Democrats