Dear Alben : Mr. Barkley of Kentucky.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2009.Description: 1 online resource (136 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9780813150291
- E748 .D437 2009
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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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