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  • #2) INTERVIEWER: DAVID G. McCOMB May 8, 1969 M: This is the second session with Mr. Douglass Cater. Once again I'm in his office at the Brookings Institution. The date is May 8, 1969, and my name is David McComb. Last time you mentioned that you had
  • Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb
  • of his leadership, he had to be. He was leader in the Senate mostly during the time that President Eisenhower, a Republican, was in the White House. And I think, and I'm sure you'd find many sources more reliable than I in that regard, as I recall
  • it with a lot of people. The man who's really the most responsible for that is Mr. Killian--James R. Killian--who was , President Eisenhower's science adviser. He had appointed Killian, I think, back in November as his response, you see, to the Sputnik
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Abell -- I -- 5 incredible series of circumstances. Eisenhower had carried the state of Kentucky by over a hundred thousand votes, and my father-in-law had lost by a mere two or three thousand votes. If any one of a number