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  • Time Period > Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-) (remove)
  • Date > 1969-05-22 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Vide G. (Mrs. E.L.) Bartlett, interview 2 (II), 5/22/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny) (Item)
  • issue; Dick Russell had opposed statehood consistently all the time. Near the end of their conversation Bob asked him a principal question, "Lyndon"do you think Alaska will have statehood this year?" His answer was, "No. 1I And in Bob's handwriting below
Oral history transcript, Robert S. Strauss, interview 1 (I), 5/22/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • . "Mr. Johnson's going to accept the vice presidency," I guess it was around noon I heard. No one was as stunned as I was. Matter of fact, I left town the next day. (Interruption - Telephone) M: You say you left town? S: That next day I left town