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  • long enough to hear this interview, and his name was John Burns, who presently is governor of Hawaii, but his term will expire January 3, 1975. He has terminal cancer. Speaker Rayburn was a fantastic person when i t came to determining the character
  • Tidelands legislation; admission of Alaska and Hawaii as states; East-West Center in Honolulu; space program; Senate committee assignments; Estes Kefauver, John Kennedy, and the Foreign Relations Committee; 1960 Democratic National Convention; LBJ’s
  • picture of Morris Sheppard up on his wall, and Rayburn was having a drink and it made him feel rather nervous. He told Johnson finally, "I just find it hard to drink with Morris Sheppard's picture up there." prohibition amendment. Sheppard who
  • isolated? Could anybody go to him and work? G: Anybody could, but a lot of them wouldn't. They thought they could beat him on the floor, and I've never seen Johnson lose many that he was interested in. He had, as you know, a very violent temper, and John
  • temper and why senators respected it; partisanship in the Senate; John F. Kennedy; Robert F. Kennedy; Jimmy Hoffa; LBJ's interest in space; foreign aid under Eisenhower; LBJ's Senate work; Robert McNamara; LBJ keeping JFK's staff members; LBJ's
  • Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998