Subject: RE: Alaska Statehood DVD
From: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
To: Laurence Goldin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2016 14:59:59 -0700

I did get it! Thank you. I'll follow up this week

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From: Laurence Goldin <[email-masked]>
Date: 05/21/2016 17:34 (GMT-05:00)
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Alaska Statehood DVD

Dear Luis,
It was a pleasure to meet you and Debbie at the Alaska Democratic Convention dinner last week. Did you get the DVD copy of “Statehood!” that I left for you at the Historic Anchorage Hotel?
In our brief conversation Debbie seemed fascinated to learn about the critical and decisive role played by then-Senate Majority Leader, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn in securing passage of the Alaska Statehood Act. Their important role is little known today, even up here.
I’d be flattered if someday Debbie viewed the entire two-hour show. However, understanding that she’s going to have little time for non-critical tasks these days, may I suggest that she can use the Chapter Menu at the opening of the DVD program to jump right to sections that cover passage of the Bill and the Texans’ role in it.
First there is a brief discussion of the political backdrop created by the national Civil Rights movement and Dixiecrat opposition to Alaska statehood. Find this by selecting “Part One Chapter Menu,” then Chapter 13: “Dixiecrats.” The story quickly moves on to President Eisenhower’s ambivalence about statehood.
Passage of the Alaska Statehood Act and the role of Johnson and Rayburn spans three chapters, found in the “Part Two Chapter Menu;” 19, 20 and 21, which combined run about seven minutes.
If viewing these chapters only, you should know that Bob Bartlett, whom they reference several times, was the Territory’s (voteless) Democratic, Delegate to Congress, who was enormously popular and surprisingly effective in the House.
In telling the Alaska statehood story objectively there was no way to avoid the conclusion that Alaska Democrats started the push for statehood and led it all the way to victory. At the national level the same was true.
Best regards,

Larry Goldin
907-952-0092 cell/text