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Interview with Author Kirstin Downey
Author Kirstin Downey on the labor rights activist Frances Perkins, who would go on to become the secretary of labor and the first woman in a U.S. Cabinet.
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A biography from American Experience's collection of presidential portraits.
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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.
