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- , 1982
INTERVIEWEE:
BENJAMIN SPOCK
INTERVIEWER:
Ted Gittinger
PLACE:
Don Gardnerls residence, Bee Cave, Texas
Tape 1 of 1
G:
Dr. Spock, would you begin by telling us how you came to campaign for
Lyndon Johnson in 1964?
S:
lid been invited three
- See all online interviews with Benjamin Spock
- Campaigning for LBJ in 1964; serving on National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy; disagreement about Vietnam War; letters to LBJ about the war; RFK; HHH candidacy; White House Conference on International Cooperation; Spock trial; civil
- Spock, Benjamin, 1903-1998
- Oral history transcript, Benjamin Spock, interview 1 (I), 10/23/1982, by Ted Gittinger
- Benjamin Spock
- of laws as it did, and to President Johnson. He was the
man that really was under the pressure.
B:
Why then prosecute Spock and Coffin et al?
C:
The reason was because when we put the facts against the law, our judgment was that
they'd violated
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a speech and debated Benjamin Spock in the summer of 1965, just
as I was going to the job.
I think the burden of my song was
whether we should have gotten involved or not.
There was some
justification for it.
I may, by hind-
We can't just pullout
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Risner -- I -- 17
prominent Americans?
I'm
thinking primarily of people like Dr.
[Benjamin] Spock, Senators
- an executive secretary, as many such councils
do now.
F:
Were they public school types, or were they across the board?
M:
Very much across the board.
Some of the names of those people
escape me now, but, for example, Dr. Spock was a member of that group
- didn't make any move about it at all, except
that I was on a committee, inadvertently, that was against Vietnam
that [Dr. Benjamin] Spock organized.
I maybe gave a hundred dollars
or something like that to it, but I assume the cowmittee either