American History TV

Oral Histories: John Connally

Dallas, Texas
Saturday, March 16, 2013

We continue our series of interviews from the Eisenhower Legacy Collection with unedited excerpts from a 1992 conversation with John Connally, who served as a long-time adviser to Lyndon B. Johnson. Connally had an up-close view of relations between President Eisenhower and Senate Majority Leader Johnson -- the man Connally called "the undisputed leader of the Senate." Independent producer George Colburn conducted this interview for a series of documentaries on Dwight D. Eisenhower’s military and political career – a period covering from 1941 to 1961.  C-SPAN 3’s American History TV is airing a selection of interviews that Mr. Colburn has conducted over the last two decades with the people closest to Ike during the war years and his presidency. 

Updated: Saturday, March 16, 2013 at 10:38am (ET)

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