Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb

Title:

Oral history transcript, William S. Livingston, interview 1 (I), 7/15/1971, by David G. McComb

Number of Pages:

38

Description:

Biographical information; Livingston's career at the University of Texas; early plans for LBJ to donate his papers to a library on the UT campus and open an institute of public service; the need for more schools to train students for public service; Benjamin Wright; Harry Ransom choosing Livingston to chair the committee to plan the institute; deciding that the school would be broad-based and interdisciplinary; appointing planning committee members; architectural firms chosen to design the school; space use and space need requirements; allocating space within the school before the function and structure of the program were decided; site selection; internal campus transportation; the planning committee's February 1966 report; the development of educational and administrative objectives for the school; schools around the United States that were models for what might be done at UT, such as the University of Southern California, Princeton, Harvard, and Syracuse University; how the UT school would be different from other schools; what the school planned to offer academically; the naming of the LBJ School of Public Affairs; committee meetings; meeting with deans of other schools to develop plans for the purpose of the school; the committee's second report in August 1966; a delay in school development from August 1966 to July 1967; Stuart MacCorkle; Livingston trying to get information from Harry Ransom about progress on the school; the Regents' July 1967 approval of committee recommendations regarding the school, including the name of the school, what sort of degree would be offered, and how the School should be staffed; Stuart MacCorkle's resignation from UT; the relationship between MacCorkle and Alton Burdine; dissolving the planning committee to create an interim faculty advisory committee.

Contributor:

Livingston, William Samuel, 1920-2013

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

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Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with William S. Livingston

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

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