Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Writing The Neglected Aspect; circumstances of appointment to office; disapproves LBJ's Vietnam policy; drafting the Smithsonian speech for LBJ; background of the International Education Act; the Interagency Committee on International Education; John Rooney and the Appropriations Committee create problems for State Department programs; characterizes Wayne Hays, John Brademas, John Tunney, Donald Fraser, Peter Frelinghuysen, Benjamin Rosenthal, Albert Quie; Patsy Mink, Wayne Morse, George McGovern, and Robert McClory; Fulbright and the Fulbright Program; political pressures and the Board of Foreign Scholarships; the Sterling Tucker appointment; cultural exchange programs; cultural exchanges and the CIA; Anthony Solomon; Dean Rusk characterized; Vietnam divides the LBJ Administration; resigns over Vietnam policy; LBJ and the intellectuals; LBJ and the credibility gap.