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Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Senate. Democrat it gave him a one-vote majority. Did he talk to you before you came up to Washington to find out your intentions? T: I don't recall his talking with me himself. body else talked to me about it. I think probably some- But I had told
Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • watcher in America, then you'd have a pretty good survey. But this would be so enormously expensive nobody would do it. I just don't know enough about their techniques to make any judgment. I had a feeling when I was at the Bureau, and I think
  • ; 1965 Voting Rights Act; Democratic party politics; THIS U.S.A.; Vietnam elections; Election Research Center; HHH; assessment of LBJ; polling industry.
Oral history transcript, Stephen J. Pollak, interview 3 (III), 1/30/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • , this unconstitutional action, which had gone on for a hundred years had to stop. B: I've heard it said that in a sense passage of the Voting Rights Bill was, if not exactly easy, made less difficult simply because it was a voting rights bill, that there weren't many
Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on to Washington. We'd come in 1933, but I hadn't gotten into any kind of action or done anything there. I had gone to work for the Democratic National Committee in the Women's Division, but only as a volunteer. see, in those days you had servants. You Even
Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that the action was in the basement. I got down to the basement, how I got down I'll never know. I was stopped about eighteen times, but finally managed to get into the Parkland Hospital basement where I saw-F: You didn't have much identification beyond just