Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Title:

Oral history transcript, Lewis Blaine Hershey, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan

Number of Pages:

54

Description:

Contacts with LBJ; LBJ’s role in Selective Service Acts in 1940-1950; Presidential cooperation; draft card burning; Burke Marshall Commission; Ramsey and Tom Clark; Ann Arbor sit-in; problem over prosecution; Professor Shea; Joe Califano; Sherman Adams; gaining minority representation; John Doar; Jim Folsom; Patrick Moynihan; rehabilitation program; attitude toward voluntary or national service systems; Ted Kennedy; definition of uniformity in relation to draft; criticism of lack of uniformity in other agencies; immigrant opposition to compulsory armed forces service; local draft boards; college dissent and support; college administrators; Universal Military Training Act; Johnson Amendment; personal statement and summary.

Contributor:

Hershey, Lewis Blaine, 1893-1977

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 Lewis Blaine Hershey

Subject:

Califano, Joseph A., Jr., 1931-

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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