Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz

Title:

Oral history transcript, Brooks Hays, interview 1 (I), 10/5/1971, by Joe B. Frantz

Number of Pages:

44

Description:

Biographical information; LBJ’s philosophy on leaks; Sam Rayburn; John Rankin insulting to all; Eisenhower appointed Hays to TVA in 1959; Fair Employment Practices Commission; Fulbright; Faubus and Arkansas Central High School fiasco; "Southern Manifesto;" George Wallace; UN 1955; Director of TVA in 1959; Hays’ defeat in 1966; no contact with VP LBJ for nine months; JFK assassination; 1964-1966 to Rutgers University as Arthur Vanderbilt professor; Bill Moyers; church-state relations under LBJ; Community Relations Service; Roy Wilkins; Pope Paul; Southern Committee on Political Ethics, 1967-1968.

Contributor:

Hays, L. Brooks (Lawrence Brooks), 1898-1981

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Brooks Hays

Subject:

Assassinations; JFK Assassination; Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details