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some audio clips

gandhi 1
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_107.html
gandhi ii
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_108.html
fannie lou hamer
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_401.html
lbj announces for president
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_141.html
signs civil rights act
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive/speech_144.html
this one is about 4 minutes, but it doesn't have the part andy jacobs talked about, that i still need to write up below.

http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/archive2.html
more audio clips at the history channel:

# Lyndon B. Johnson, Senate majority leader, Announces candidacy for the presidency

# Lyndon B. Johnson, U.S. vice president; Frederick R. Kappel, AT&T chairman, Engage in first satellite telephone conversation

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, On the assassination of President Kennedy

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, Signs Civil Rights Act of 1964

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, Delivers State of the Union address

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, On KKK murder of civil rights worker

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, Orders U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, Signs Medicare bill into law

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, On the resumption of air strikes against North Vietnam

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, Announces he will not seek reelection
this one is my first overtly political memory. I was 8. I didn't become politically active until I was 10.
What we didn't know was he was lying.. He would have accepted the nomination if offered, and hoped that it would be.

# Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th U.S. president, On the assassination of Martin Luther King

posted by gt @ 8:31 AM