Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131110:14:02:00
This is jim wright. it wasn't long ago he was the biggest fish in the biggest party in one of the biggest states in america. born in ft. worth, texas, nearly 91 years ago, december 1922, the day after pearl harbor he enlisted in the army air corps, flew combat missions and came home to texas where he entered politics and began the long, slow, steady climb to the top of the ladder. won a seat as a democrat in congress in 1954, eisenhower's first midterm, the year the democrats won a majority that they would hold for the next 40 years. at 54, election made another texan, sam rayburn, mr. sam the...