Oral history transcript, Patricia Roberts Harris, interview 1 (I), 5/19/1969, by Stephen Goodell

Biographical information; JFK's civil rights legislation appointments under LBJ; first meetings with LBJ; candidates for 1960; LBJ's politics; civil rights: past and present; appointment to Puerto Rico Commission; Dominican Republic issue; question of statehood; Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City; White House influence on Convention; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; showboating at convention; 1964 ticket; LBJ's options concerning poverty; opinions on black and women cabinet members; LBJ's speech at Howard University; Moynihan Report; race problem; LBJ's release of Kerner Commission Report; ambassador to Luxembourg; protocol incident; re-ranking of spouses; Harris ruling; ambassador's staff and running of the position; position of Luxembourg on Vietnam; appointment to Commission on Violence; RFK; divisions within Democratic Party; money withdrawn from social programs to fight in Vietnam; reports of Commission on Violence.