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  • Date > 1969-11-10 (remove)

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Oral history transcript, Helen Gahagan Douglas, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was desirous of being the U. S. Senator, but because of his opposition to the reclamation program of the Department of the Interior. I challenged him on this issue. He was as destructive in his opposition as Joe McCarthy was later to the State Department
  • Biographical information; first political action; election to Congress; activities/bill introduced in Congress; Richard Nixon; Melvyn Douglas campaign for LBJ at request of FDR; Farm Security Agricultural Department Program; friendship with LBJ
Oral history transcript, Mary Lasker, interview 1 (I), 11/10/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • that Eisenhower was supplying no new ideas at all in the conduct of American affairs, either domestically or from a foreign relations point of view. F: Sort of characterized by his Interior policy which had the slogan "No new starts." L: That's right--no new