Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz

Title:

Oral history transcript, Hubert H. Humphrey, interview 1 (I), 8/17/1971, by Joe B. Frantz

Number of Pages:

28

Description:

Initial awareness of LBJ; Senate run by Southerners; Tidelands; political albatross; DC’s Southern atmosphere; Dick Russell; Harry Byrd; Eugene Milligan; Bob Taft; LBJ as a political operator; LBJ’s relationship with David Dubinsky; Walter George; LBJ as minority leader; committee assignments; estimations of LBJ; Joe McCarthy; Foreign Relations Committee; difference of opinion between LBJ and Humphrey; William Proxmire; jury trials; 1957 Civil Rights Act; JFK; Rule 22 amendment; Mexican-Americans; Black Friday; Warren Court decisions; civil liberties fight; LBJ as a civil libertarian and a pragmatic liberal; relationship between the Humphrey’s and the Johnson’s; HHH as majority whip; Adlai Stevenson; illusion LBJ had of being VP; power of Senators; VP nomination for LBJ; retirement of Theodore F. Green

Contributor:

Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978

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 Hubert H. Humphrey

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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