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During the 1937 congressional election campaign, Johnson's group probably paid $5,000 to Elliott Roosevelt, one of Franklin Roosevelt's sons, for a telegram in which Elliott suggested that the Roosevelt family favored Lyndon Johnson.


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ROBERT BYRD I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times o...
ROBERT BYRD Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of havi...
ROBERT BYRD I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the...
ROBERT BYRD That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority ...
ROBERT BYRD One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I'...
ROBERT BYRD Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, ...
ROBERT BYRD We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I b...
ROBERT CARO If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov...
ROBERT KURSON I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...
ROBERT FULGHUM I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
ROBERT TROUT Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST