“Reggie!”
The Tony Kornheiser Show
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The Relationship Between Lyndon Johnson and Richard Russell
Jackie Robinson thought that Nixon as vice president said and did a lot of good things on civil rights. He eventually sours on Nixon over time before his death, though he writes a letter to Nixon asking Nixon to speak out on civil rights again. LBJ only cared about politics. Like everyone I talked to about Lyndon Johnson said like his, his sports were politics. That's what he was good at. The only way he used it was transactionally.
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