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[After the end of her term in Congress, Barbara Jordan was recruited for a faculty position at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.] I thought, now what better thing could I do than to go there, ... to the University of Texas, to the LBJ School and help those young people become the bright leaders of government as Lyndon Johnson so wanted?

Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan

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