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  • . the 1944 campaign. That was in And I served in the Senate until I retired voluntarily in January 1967. F: Now, in 1944, when you first ran, the country went Democratic. You bucked a national trend there. s: I did. I got a good majority vote in both
  • Biographical information; first association with LBJ in the Senate Armed Services Committee and Preparedness Sub-Committee; Kem Resolution; activities in the Senate; amendment to Kerr-Mills Bill; Saltonstall-Kennedy Act; Senator Hayden; Smithsonian
  • Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 2 Agricultural Committee and we were working, as I
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3 B: Did this involve you in national Democratic politics? C: To a limited degree. I wouldn 1 t ~.;rant
  • . On the committee were (this was in the House) Mike Monroney, then a Congressman, Wright Patman, then a Congressman, and a man who is now dead named Buchanan, I believe from Pennsylvania [Rep. Frank Buchanan?]. They were all good, sort of Fair Deal Democrats. And so
  • up a committee of public spirited people--I was then the Executive Director of the National Consumers League--to try to get them to lend their support to the passage of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. We were seeking to get that bill through
  • Comments by LBJ; LBJ’s concern for full utilization of human resources; FSEE; War on Poverty; YWCA; 1964 Civil Rights Act; comparison of non-white/white men earnings; women in household employment; National Commission on Household Employment