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| Transcripts of oral history interviews of the John F. Kennedy Presidency, 1989-1992 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Oral history interview with Norbert Schlei, 1991-12-23 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Schlei discusses his time in Robert Kennedy's Justice Department, and his recollections of the Cuban Missile Crisis and civil rights struggle. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/21 | Oral history interview with Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., 1992-05-21 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on May 21, 1992 ; recorded in New York, N.Y. | |||||||||||||
| Schlesinger was an advisor to President Kennedy (1961-1964). He was a Harvard scholar and American historian. | |||||||||||||
| Schlesinger discusses his entrance into the Kennedy White House and his opinions of other Kennedy appointees. He offers his opinions on foreign relations, Vietnam, Cuba, and civil rights. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/22 | Oral history interview with Robert Seamans, 1989-11-21 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on November 21, 1989 ; recorded in Cambridge, Mass. | |||||||||||||
| Seamans was was an Associate Adiministrator of NASA from 1960-1965; in 1965 he became Deputy Administrator. Later he served as the Secretary of the Air Force (1969-1973) and Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration. | |||||||||||||
| Seamans discusses his role as a NASA administrator and the Space Race of the 1960s, especially the Moon Shot. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/23 | Oral history interview with R. Sargent Shriver, 1992-07-23 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on July 23, 1992 ; recorded over the telephone. | |||||||||||||
| Shriver was married to Eunice Kennedy and thus brother-in-law to John and Robert Kennedy. He was a key organizer during the 1960 presidential election. His major initiative in the Kennedy administration was to champion the creation of and be the first Director of the Peace Corps. Later he would serve as the Director of the Office of Economic Development, ambassador to France, and a vice presidential candidate. | |||||||||||||
| Shriver discusses his relationship with the Kennedys and his roles in the 1960 campaign and subsequent administration. He recollects about his time with the Peace Corps. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/24 | Oral history interview with Joseph Sisco, 1992-03-31 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on March 31, 1992 ; recorded in Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Sisco was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (1951-1965). Later during the Nixon administration he assumed a chief role in Middle Eastern diplomacy. | |||||||||||||
| Sisco discusses foreign policy issues of the Kennedy administration, with emphasis on his recollections regarding Secretary of State Dean Rusk and U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/25 | Oral history interview with George Smathers, 1991-08-31 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on August 31, 1991 ; recorded in Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Smathers was a Representative from Florida (1947-1951) and later Senator (1951-1969). He knew the Kennedys personally before entering government, and served as best man at John F. Kennedy's wedding. | |||||||||||||
| Senator Smathers discusses his relationship to John F. Kennedy and the Kennedy family (he was best man at JFK's wedding) and President Kennedy's rise from Congress to the presidency. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/26 | Oral history interview with Adlai Stevenson III, 1992-01-15 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on January 15, 1992; recorded in Chicago, Illinois. | |||||||||||||
| Stevenson, III, was the son of Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr., who was the governor of Illinois and Democratic presidential candidate in the 1952 and 1956 elections. During the Kennedy administration, Stevenson, Jr., served as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Stevenson, III, served as a senator from Illinois (1970-1981). | |||||||||||||
| Stevenson discusses the Democratic National Conventions of 1956 and 1960, and his father--Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.'s--relationship with John F. Kennedy. He offers his opinions on what his father thought about Kennedy's foreign policy decisions. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/27 | Oral history interview with Viktor Sukhodrev, 1991-02-01 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on February 1, 1991 ; recorded at the United Nations Building in New York, N.Y. | |||||||||||||
| Sukhodrev was a Soviet diplomatic official and interpreter for Nikita Khrushchev, Foreign Minister Andre Gromyko, and other Soviet officials. | |||||||||||||
| Sukhodrev discusses his observations of the Kennedy administration as Nikita Khrushchev's interpreter. He discusses Kennedy and Khrushchev's first meeting at the Vienna Summit, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Test Ban Treaty negotiations, and the assassination of President Kennedy from the Soviet perspective. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/28 | Oral history interview with Phillips Talbot, 1989-11-20 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on November 20, 1989 ; recorded in New York, N.Y. | |||||||||||||
| Talbot was Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs during the Kennedy administration (1961-1965). He later served as ambassador to Greece. | |||||||||||||
| Talbot discusses the Israel-Arab disputes during the Kennedy administration, the State Department's handling of the Middle East and southern Asia, and other foreign policy issues that arose in his sphere of the diplomatic establishment. He offers many anecdotes about foreign policy heavyweights in the Kennedy administration. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/29 | Oral history interview with James Tobin, 1991-12-17 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on December 17, 1991 ; recorded in New Haven, Conn. | |||||||||||||
| Tobin was a Keynesian economist and member of the Council of Economic Advisors (1961-1962). From 1962 to 1968 he acted as a consultant to the Council. | |||||||||||||
| Tobin discusses President John F. Kennedy's approach to economic affairs and his interactions with Treasury Secretary Clarence Dillon. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/30 | Oral history interview with Jack Valenti, 1991-07-15 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on July 15, 1991 ; recorded in Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Valenti was a public relations advisor to the Kennedy administration and a personal aide to Vice President--and later President--Lyndon Johnson. After his government service he became president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), where he helped create the modern movie rating system. | |||||||||||||
| Valenti discusses the Catholic issue during the 1960 elections, specifically in Texas. He discusses the relationships between John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson. He also recollects being in the motorcade in Dallas on the day of President Kennedy's assassination and being present at Lyndon Johnson's swearing-in as president. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/31 | Oral history interview with George Wallace, 1992-03-05 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on March 5, 1992 ; recorded in Montgomery, Alabama. Governor Wallace was deaf at the time of the interview, so the Strobers used written questions--included with the partial transcript--so there is no audio of the questions being asked on the sound recording. | |||||||||||||
| Wallace was a four-term Democratic Governor of Alabama (1963-1967, 1971-1979, 1983-1987) and a four-time candidate for president of the U.S. (1964, 1968, 1972, 1976). His first three terms were characterized by his outspoken segregationalist views, which he disavowed late in life. An assassination attempt during the 1972 presidential campaign left him partially paralyzed. | |||||||||||||
| Governor Wallace discusses the civil rights issues of the 1960s, specifically concerning integration at the University of Alabama. He also offers his recollections of the 1956 Democratic National Convention, the Bay of Pigs, Robert Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/32 | Oral history interview with Lee White, 1992-12-21 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on December 21, in either 1989 or 1992 ; recorded in Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| White was Assistant Special Counsel to the President (1961-1965). Before 1961, he served as an assistant to Ambassador Joseph Kennedy and Senator John F. Kennedy. He later went on to serve as chairman of the Federal Power Commission. | |||||||||||||
| White discusses the inner workings of the Kennedy White House. He includes the discussions surrounding foreign events and domestic problems, including civil rights. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/33 | Oral history interview with Tom Wicker, 1991-12-04 , 1991-12-11 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on December 4 and 11, 1991 ; recorded in New York, N.Y. | |||||||||||||
| Wicker was a Washington, D.C. correspondent and political reporter for the New York Times (c.1960-1992). | |||||||||||||
| Wicker discusses the major issues and events of the Kennedy administration: from the election, to civil rights, to Cuba, to Vietnam, etc. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/34 | Oral history interview with Donald Wilson, 1992-01-09 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on January 9, 1992 ; recorded in Princeton, N.J. | |||||||||||||
| Wilson was the Deputy Director and Acting Head of the United States Information Agency (1961-1965). | |||||||||||||
| Wilson discusses his experiences in the 1960 presidential election working in the John F. Kennedy campaign, including his opinions on John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Lydon Johnson, and Robert Kennedy. He discusses his work at the United States Information Agency (USIA), his experiences during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/35 | Oral history interview with James Wine, 1989-03-31 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on March 31, 1989 ; recorded in New York, N.Y. | |||||||||||||
| Wine was a campaign advisor to John F. Kennedy during the 1960 election; and as a Protestant was instrumental in crafting Kennedy's speech in Houston assuring voters his Catholicism would not interfere with his ability to act as president. From 1961-1962 he served as Ambassador to Luxembourg, and from 1962-1967 as Ambassador to the Ivory Coast. | |||||||||||||
| Wine discusses his role in the 1960 presidential campaign as a key advisor to John F. Kennedy on the issue of religion and his Catholocism. He also speaks about the Kennedy administration's handling of foreign relations with African nations. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 2/36 | Oral history interview with Ralph Yarborough, 1992-01-18 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on either January 18 or 19, 1992 ; recorded in Austin, Texas. | |||||||||||||
| Yarborough was a liberal Democratic Senator from Texas (1957-1971). He was an early supporter of John F. Kennedy for president, and sometime ally/sometime enemy of Lyndon Johnson in Texas politics. He was present in the Dallas motorcade at President Kennedy's assassination. | |||||||||||||
| Senator Yarborough discusses his interactions with President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. He also recollects about being in the presidential motorcade on the day Kennedy was assassinated. | |||||||||||||
| Transcripts of oral history interviews of the Richard M. Nixon Presidency, 1992-1994 | |||||||||||||
| Oral history interviews conducted by Gerald S. and Deborah H. Strober for their book entitled Nixon: An Oral History of His Presidency. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/1 | Oral history interview with Morris Amitay, 1993-12-16 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on December 16, 1993; recorded at Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Amitay was a legislative aide to Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D-Conn.). | |||||||||||||
| Amitay discusses his observations on U.S. National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger's American-Israeli policies, inclusing Kissinger's opposition to a large-scale relief effort during the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, and the latter's personal sense of Jewishness. Amitay further relates a meeting between Kissinger, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Yitzhak Rabin, Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern, and Senator Abraham Ribicoff. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/2 | Oral history interview with Bobby Baker, 1993-12-03 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on December 3, 1993 ; recorded at Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Baker was a confidant of President Lyndon B. Johnson. | |||||||||||||
| Baker discusses President Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run for reelection in 1968, President Richard Nixon's decision not to burn the Watergate tapes, circumstances surrounding Teamsters president James Hoffa's release from prison, Nixon's marriage, and Baker's personal observations on key Nixon administration staff. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/3 | Oral history interview with Bernard Barker, 1993-10-03 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on October 3, 1993; recorded at Miami, Florida. | |||||||||||||
| Barker was member of a special investigations unit in the Nixon White House that carried out the Watergate burglary. | |||||||||||||
| Barker discusses his recruitment by Howard Hunt for, and subsequent involvement in, the Fielding and Watergate burglaries, and the resulting investigation, trial, and conviction. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/4 | Oral history interview with Yuri Barsukov, 1994-01-08 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on January 8, 1994; recorded via telephone. | |||||||||||||
| Barsukov was correspondent for Soviet newspaper Izvestia in Washington. | |||||||||||||
| Barsukov discusses reaction in the Soviet Union to President Richard M. Nixon's election in 1968, and the subsequent changing U.S.-Soviet relationship; Barsukov further discusses Soviet leaders' reactions to Nixon's resignation as President, and the alleged passing of U.S. documents to the Soviet embassy in Washington by Daniel Ellsberg. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/5 | Oral history interview with Richard Ben-Veniste, 1994-01-26 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on January 26, 1994 ; recorded at Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Ben-Veniste was Watergate assistant special prosecutor and chief of the Watergate Task Force. | |||||||||||||
| Ben-Veniste discusses working on the Watergate Task Force, the Watergate tapes and their importance in the subsequent prosecutions, the proposed Stennis compromise and the subsequent Saturday Night Massacre firing of Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, the question of erasure of one of the Watergate tapes, and contemporary opinions about prosecution of former President Richard M. Nixon after his resignation. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/6 | Oral history interview with Robert Bork, 1993-11-19 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on November 19, 1993 ; recorded at Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Robert Bork was Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General of the United States. | |||||||||||||
| Bork discusses his hiring as Solicitor General of the United States, President Richard M. Nixon's legal philosophy, the Watergate scandal, circumstances surrounding Bork's firing of Watergate Special Prosecuter Archibald Cox (known as the Saturday Night Massacre), and Vice President Spiro Agnew's resignation. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/7 | Oral history interview with Ben Bradlee, 1994-03-01 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on March 1, 1994 ; recorded at Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Bradlee was executive editor of the Washington Post newspaper. | |||||||||||||
| Bradlee discusses events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, President Richard Nixon's relationship with the press, the Watergate investigation and legacy, Bradlee's character observations of Nixon's staff, informant Deep Throat (FBI associate director William Mark Felt), Nixon's foreign affairs legacy, and the former President's attempts to rehabilitate his image in later life. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/8 | Oral history interview with Herbert Brownell, 1993-09-22 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on September 22, 1993 ; recorded at New York City, New York. | |||||||||||||
| Brownell was Attorney General of the United States during the President Dwight D. Eisenhower administration. | |||||||||||||
| Brownell discusses the Vice-Presidential career of Richard M. Nixon, the latter's run for the Presidency in 1960 and for Governor of California in 1962, Nixon's selection of Spiro Agnew as his Vice-Presidential running mate, the snubbing of Nixon's old cohort of political allies in favor of a new Presidential entourage, and the legacy of Richard Nixon's Presidency. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/9 | Oral history interview with Stephen Bull, 1992-12-29 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on December 29, 1992 ; recorded at Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Bull was special assistant and appointments secretary in the White House Office of President Richard M. Nixon. | |||||||||||||
| Bull discusses working on the 1968 Richard Nixon Presidential campaign, Bull's recruitment as appointments secretary in the White House office, his working relationship with President Nixon, a typical day in Nixon's schedule, the Watergate scandal, the alleged partial erasure of one of the Watergate tapes, and the appointment of Gerald Ford as Vice President. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/10 | Oral history interview with Alexander Butterfield, 1993-01-21 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on January 21, 1993 ; recorded at Beverly Hills, California. | |||||||||||||
| Butterfield was special assistant to President Richard M. Nixon and discloser of the existence of the Oval Office tapes. | |||||||||||||
| Butterfield discusses the Oval Office tapes, Butterfield's duties as White House special assistant, President Richard M. Nixon's marriage, Nixon's work habits, Electronic Data Systems founder H. Ross Perot, and Butterfield's testimony to Watergate investigators including revelation of the existence of the Oval Office tapes. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/11 | Oral history interview with Dwight Chapin, 1993-11-01 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on November 1, 1993 ; recorded at New York City, N.Y. | |||||||||||||
| Chapin was appointments secretary for President Richard M. Nixon. | |||||||||||||
| Chapin discusses Richard M. Nixon's 1968 Presidential campaign, Richard Nixon's personality, Chapin's indictment and conviction of lying to a grand jury, and key Nixon administration staff including White House communications director Herbert Klein, Secretary of State William P. Rogers, and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, White House special counsel Charles Colson, Donald Segretti, Martha Mitchell (wife of Attorney General John Mitchell), and Murray Chotiner. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/12 | Oral history interview with William Colby, 1993-11-17 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on November 17, 1993 ; recorded at Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
| Colby was Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 1973 to 1976. | |||||||||||||
| Colby discusses investigations into the anti-Vietnam War movement, the election of Chilean President Salvador Allende, Daniel Ellsberg, the clandestine activities group known as the Plumbers, the Watergate break-in, and the Yom Kippur War. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/13 | Oral history interview with Charles Colson, 1993-06-16 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on June 16, 1993 ; recorded via telephone. | |||||||||||||
| Colson was special counsel to President Richrd M. Nixon. | |||||||||||||
| Colson discusses President Richard M. Nixon's working relationship with key staff figures, especially National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, politics as warfare mentality in the Nixon White House, Watergate planner E. Howard Hunt, and the Watergate break-in. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/14 | Oral history interview with Archibald Cox, 1993-09-29 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on September 29, 1993 ; recorded at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |||||||||||||
| Cox was special prosecutor for the Watergate investigation. | |||||||||||||
| Cox discusses his appointment as Watergate special prosecutor, the Watergate investigation, details of the proposed Stennis compromise, and the Saturday Night Massacre firing of Cox, Attorney General Elliot Richardson, and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 3/15 | Oral history interview with Samuel Dash, 1993-10-18 | ||||||||||||
| Interview conducted by Deborah Hart Strober and Gerald S. Strober on October 18, 1993 ; recorded at Washington, D.C. | |||||||||||||
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