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Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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in 1959.
We began to make a serious attack on it in 1961.
We had a
little gold crisis as Jack Kennedy
- Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965
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On any particular issue?
B:
Yes.
I was defeated--
It's a tough thing to say, but the truth of the matter is that it
was race.
I ran twenty to thirty thousand votes ahead of President Kennedy
in the election, but that still was not enough.
fifty
- Biographical information; House Banking and Currency Commission; Sam Rayburn; Inter-American Bank; International Development Association; Hoover Commission; campaigns for Congress; Kennedy appointment to the Treasury; Chairman of the FDIC; May 1965