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Dear Alben : Mr. Barkley of Kentucky.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (136 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813150291
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E748 .D437 2009
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Contents:
Subject: Alben Barkley's final words before he was struck down by a heart attack summed up his long, eventful life: ""I have served my country and my people for half a century as a Democrat. I went to the House of Representatives in 1913 and served fourteen years. I was a junior Congressman, then I became a senior Congressman, then I went to the Senate and became a junior Senator, and then I became a senior Senator; and then a Majority Leader in the Senate, and then Vice President of the United States, and now I am back again as a junior Senator. And I am willing to be a junior. I'm glad to sit in the.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction E748.318 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn900344337

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 From Cabin to Congress; 2 The Progressive; 3 Tale of Two Elections; 4 Transitions and Troubled Times; Illustrations; 5 Franklin's ""Dear Alben""; 6 A Singular Veep; 7 Iron Man of Politics; Sources.

Alben Barkley's final words before he was struck down by a heart attack summed up his long, eventful life: ""I have served my country and my people for half a century as a Democrat. I went to the House of Representatives in 1913 and served fourteen years. I was a junior Congressman, then I became a senior Congressman, then I went to the Senate and became a junior Senator, and then I became a senior Senator; and then a Majority Leader in the Senate, and then Vice President of the United States, and now I am back again as a junior Senator. And I am willing to be a junior. I'm glad to sit in the.

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