Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette

Title:

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette

Number of Pages:

38

Description:

Beginning work with LBJ; LBJ's temper; LBJ's personal struggle with "liberal" and "conservative" labels; Bobby Baker; problems with McCarthy; Drew Pearson's effort to blackmail LBJ into objecting the seating of McCarthy in the Senate; LBJ's idiosyncrasies

Contributor:

Hight, Jack

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 Jack Hight

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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

Interviewee:

Jack Hight

Interviewer(s):

Michael L. Gillette

Specific Item Type:

Oral history

Type:

Text

Format:

Paper

Identifier:

oh-hightj-19780109-1-92-4

Date:

1978-01-09

Time Period:

Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)

Citation

Oral history transcript, Jack Hight, interview 1 (I), 1/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette, LBJ Library Oral Histories, LBJ Presidential Library, accessed April 30, 2025, https://www.discoverlbj.org/item/oh-hightj-19780109-1-92-4