Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker

Title:

Oral history transcript, Lister Hill, interview 1 (I), 2/1/1971, by T.H. Baker

Number of Pages:

43

Description:

Biographical information; first contact with LBJ; General Pershing; FDR and TVA Act; Muscle Shoals; LBJ’s ambition; civil rights; Richard Russell; George Wallace; integration; tidelands; Joe McCarthy; 1956 and 1960 Democratic conventions; Woodrow Wilson; Lady Bird; LBJ as VP; LBJ and the Kennedy’s; Medicare Bill; LBJ as President; Johnson treatment; Alabama integration problems; evaluation of LBJ; Vietnam; ranking the presidents; Coolidge anecdote; Congress in the 1920s; National Defense Education Act.

Contributor:

Hill, Lister, 1894-

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 Lister Hill

Subject:

Vietnam

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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