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Twenty years before, Cohen told the author, he had considered young Representative Johnson âpromising material.â Subsequently, he said, he had been somewhat put off by the âintensityâ of Johnsonâs ambition. But now, in 1957, talking to Johnson over lunch, he felt that the promise had been fulfilled: âHe was a man with a missionââto pass a civil rig
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Gould did not take a title, but had a seat on the executive committee and had four additional board seats, which he filled with his brokers.
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Hawaiâi, for its part, immediately elected nonwhite congressmen: Hiram Fong to the Senate and Daniel Inouye, veteran of the fabled 442nd Infantry Regiment, to the House. Fong was the first Chinese American to serve in the Senate, Inouye the first Japanese American to serve in Congress. Inouye held congressional office in an unbroken stretch from Ha
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