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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
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  • 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
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  • 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
  • of Dr. [Benjamin] Spock I assume has been the major one. V: I think it's the most celebrated one certainly. B: Is this a difficult area of law enforcement because of the public controversy that surrounds it? V: Yes, it's a very difficult area
  • ; James Hoffa investigation; draft dissent cases; Dr. Benjamin Spock; Oakland Induction center; General Lewis B. Hershey; Selective Service; Ann Arbor sit-ins; Las Vegas skimming cases; attracting good men for government service; public controversy.
  • 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
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 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