Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb

Title:

Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 1 (I), 4/29/1969, by David G. McComb

Number of Pages:

23

Description:

Biographical information; LBJ as an atypical southerner; writing article on Ernest Thompson and the Texas Railroad Commission; Cater as visiting professor at Princeton; LBJ shows signs of liberalism; Cater turns down first offer of employment by LBJ; John Kenneth Galbraith recommends people to LBJ; "skinny dipping" in the White House pool; producing My Hope for America; the 1964 campaign; genesis of the task forces; Oscar Cox, Walter Lippman, and LBJ's interest in education; ESEA and the church-state issue, segregation, and the poverty impact formula; working with Adam Clayton Powell, Carl Perkins, Phil Landrum, Emanuel Celler, Wayne Morse, John Brademas, Hugh Cary, Edith Green, Joe Clark, Jack Forsyth and Charles Lee; lobbying the Congress for ESEA; Morse-Green rivalry; the Quie amendment; Congressman Fino objects to busing; reorganizing HEW; Keppel, Mayor Daley, and the Chicago quarrel with HEW; Henry Loomis and the Voice of America press conference; Wilbur Cohen evaluated; the heart-cancer-stroke issue; LBJ mesmerizes the AMA; LBJ and television

Contributor:

Cater, Douglass, 1923-1995

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with S. Douglass Cater

Subject:

Presidential campaign, 1964; Education; Welfare and War on Poverty; Department of Health, Education, and Welfare

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details