Discover Our Collections


2 results

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Scammon, interview 1 (I), 3/3/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • by focusing on your experiences from 1961 to 1965, serving both under President Johnson and President Kennedy. You were appointed the Director of the Bureau of the Census in 1961. S: Yes. G: This is a political appointment? S: Yes
Oral history transcript, Strom Thurmond, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or late fifties? T: He became more liberal in the late fifties in the Senate. I remember in 1960, when he ran for president, I supported him over Kennedy at the convention. I made a speech at the Democratic Convention to the South Carolina caucus