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- of all, tell us just a little bit about what brought
you from Indiana and DePauw University, and so forth, right on into a
life in Washington.
B:
Mr. Frantz, back in 1958 the Democratic party in Indiana faced a peculiar
circumstance.
As in many big
- for any office
goes down there and files on that day.
Anyhow 9 the leaders of the
Democratic Party came down and persuaded me that I should not file for
the state senate but should file for secretary of state--over my best
judgment!
I did 9 I had never
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led the fight to reinstate disability insurance on the floor.
It
was passed, it did go into the law, and Kerr was the keynote
speaker at the Democratic Convention.
He started out his speech
with this great achievement of the Democrats
- and generosity; Jesse Kellam; social security disability insurance; AMA; Senator Kerr; LBJ relationship with Senator Richard Russell; LBJ as a liberal; LBJ and the Presidency; mobilization for youth; Community Action Program; legal services program; Head Start
- , when the Italians were then occupying the south of France
and I was in a villa I always had had with my mother and my stepfather,
four sisters, and my little girl Annette, the rumblings of war were
still over our heads.
northern Africa.
America
- relations in South Africa; meeting LBJ for the first time; Sam Rayburn; Democratic National Conventions of 1956, 1960, and 1964; political social gatherings; visits to the Ranch; working with Mrs. Kennedy on the Fine Arts Committee; White House furnishings
