Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener

Title:

Oral history transcript, Clark Kerr, interview 1 (I), 8/12/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener

Number of Pages:

48

Description:

Biographical information; period as chancellor and president of University of California at Berkeley; Kerr’s appointments during LBJ Administration; relationship with LBJ; offer of appointment as secretary of HEW; establishment of medical school in Indonesia; heading up Carnegie Commission on Higher Education; impression of Alice Rivlin’s work; Edith Green’s higher education bill; carry-over into Nixon Administration; bloc grant issue; Kerr as chairman of the National Committee for Political Settlement in Vietnam; work on HHH campaign; impressions of LBJ; guns and butter; LBJ’s record; Vietnam

Contributor:

Kerr, Clark

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 Clark Kerr

Subject:

Department of Housing, Education, and Welfare; Vietnam

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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