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JFK's Profiles in Courage details Edmund G. Ross as one senator who stood up for principle in voting against the removal of Johnson. However, the account has been criticized as leaving out the fact Ross was bribed. What was known about the bribery case, and was this largely forgotten by the 1950s?

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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