Posted on 12/25/2002 10:49:33 AM PST by Doctor Raoul
From Hubert H. Humphrey Oral History Interview III, 6/21/77, by Michael L.Gillette by the LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON LIBRARY ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION
Gillette: Manifesto
Humphrey: Manifesto.
Gillette:Did he ever talk to you about that?
Humphrey: Oh yes. Oh yes, indeed. And he'd remind me who did it. I remember he told me onetime, "I know you think Bill Fulbright is one of the great liberals around here. You liberals. You all have got your big heroes." Only in Johnson's voice. He said, "I want you to notice who signed the Southern Manifesto and who didn't. Now all your bomb throwers over there think I am the worst thing that came down here. They won't cooperate" and so on. "But they're all cheering Bill Fulbright. Why do they cheer Bill Fulbright? Because they think he's got great connections overseas. He's a Rhodes Scholar, and he's got the Fulbright Act" and so on and so on. And he'd go on. He said, "He signed the Southern Manifesto, didn't he? He signed that Southern Manifesto. I didn't." Oh, many times he'd mention that. He was very proud of the fact that he didn't sign it. Also, he used it.
Johnson used every tool in the book. This is when he'd get in an argument with Paul Douglas or Herbert Lehman or Estes Kefauver or any of these people that he thought he couldn't quite manage or that were resisting him. He'd let them know. Every so often he'd drop that little atom bomb; that when it was all said and done, "Boys, you've got some boys over here that you're sleeping with day in and day out, like Bill Fulbright, but I wasn't there when they signed that Southern Manifesto. I said no, and your hero said yes. Now how do you justify that?" See, he'd put them on the defensive. He used these things. He was so adroit.
Fulbright=traitor,and most likely the source of leaks to the North Vietnamese about operations to rescue American POW's in Viet Nam. As the Dim chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee,he was above official suspiscion.
And his wife,Lindey (Lindsay?) Boggs took over his congressional seat when he died. Cokie and Al grew playing in the Senate chamber.
South Carolina:
L. Mendel Rivers - Democrat
John J. Riley - Democrat
W.J. Bryan Dorn - Democrat
Robert T. Ashmore - Democrat
James P. Richards - Democrat
John L. McMillan. - Democrat
Well, I already blew the assignment. But I did find a good link to research bios of ex reps. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
That said, I just did the North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee names...
North Carolina
Herbert Covington Bonner (D) 1891-1965, Rep. NC 11/5/40 - 11/7/65, died in office
Lawrence H. Fountain (D) 1913-2002, Rep NC 1/3/53 - 1/3/83 (not candidate 1982)
Graham Arthur Barden (D) 1896-1967, Rep. NC 1/3/35 - 1/3/61 (not candidate '60)
Carl Thomas Durham (D) 1892-1974, Rep. NC 1/3/39 - 1/3/61 (not cand. '60)
Frank Ertel Carlyle (D) 1897-1960, Rep. NC 1/3/49 -1/3/57 (lost in '56)
Hugh Quincy Alexander (D) 1911-1989 Rep. NC 1/3/53 - 1/3/63 (lost in '62)
Woodrow Wilson Jones (D) 1914 - , Rep. NC 11/7/50 - 1/3/57 (not candidate in '56), LBJ appointed to District Judge Western District of NC - Senior Distr. Judge 1968 to present (at least to the date of the bio, more checking on this needed)
George Adams Shuford (D) 1895-1962, Rep. NC 1/3/53 - 1/3/59 (renom. '58, withdrew, ill health)
South Carolina and Tennessee coming up in my next comment...
James Beriah Frazier, Jr. (D) 1890-1978, Rep. TN 1/3/49 - 1/3/63 (lost '62)
Thomas Jefferson Murray (D) 1894-1971, Rep. TN 1/3/43 - 1/3/67 (lost '66)
Jere Cooper (D) 1893-1957, Rep. TN 3/4/29 - until his death 12/18/57
Clifford Davis (D) 1897-1970, Rep. TN 2/15/40 - 1/3/65 (lost '64)
They bill themselves as: The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography,
or,
The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried
I guess, as opposed to where the live ones are buried.
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