Carolina Quotes
I've always felt like if I could grow up and be like my father, I'd be happy and satisfied with my life, and I still feel that way about it.
Junior Johnson Carolinian
Source
Oral history interview by Pete Daniel, Dover, Delaware, 4 June 1988; Southern Oral History Program (C-0053), UNC Chapel Hill
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- 1988
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