Oral history transcript, S. Douglass Cater, interview 2 (II), 5/8/1969, by David G. McComb

Liaison with USIA; international education; PBS Act Corp.; CIA involvement with NSA; work with intellectual community; academic trips to gather ideas; impressions of Eric Goldman and The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson; Arts and Humanities Endowment; opinion of task force as a tool in development of programs and ideas; implementation of Student Guaranteed Loan Program; Budget Bureau Review agency guidelines; LBJ as administrator; impression of Califano; speechwriting operation; LBJ ad libbing; LBJ’s use of telephone; nature of LBJ’s mind; capacity to remember; LBJ’s energy; talking to relax; sense of humor and temper; LBJ as a decision maker; effect of the Vietnam War on domestic policy; relationship to communication media; virtues as a chief executive; withdrawal from office; Cater’s resignation and campaigning for HHH; impressions of Lady Bird