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Indiana Politics, 1969; 1978

A Guide to the Collection of Oral History Interviews at Indiana University Bloomington

Finding aid prepared by the staff of the Center for the Study of History and Memory with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access, 2000-2002

Overview of the Collection

Repository
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Indiana University
Franklin Hall 0030B
601 E. Kirkwood Avenue
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: 812/855-2856
Fax: 812/855-0002
E-mail: ohrc@indiana.edu
https://cdrp.mediaschool.indiana.edu

Creator
Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory

Title
Indiana Politics, 1969;1978

Project No.
ohrc064

Interviews
3 interviews. Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials.

Physical Location
Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030B. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. Contact archives@indiana.edu for more information. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office.

Language
Materials are in English

Abstract
The interviews in this project discuss Indiana politics from the nineteen thirties to the nineteen seventies. Presidential elections and Republican conventions are topics of major importance. Also included, however, are discussions about House committees and legislative bills as well as a description of important agricultural events during the time period.

Scope and Content Note

This collection contains three interviews conducted over nine years. The interviews range from 110 to 420 minutes. All interviews consist of audio tapes and most include typed transcripts.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the history of twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
Usage Restrictions
The archive of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University is open to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of the interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Audio files may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for that interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the audio interview. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as researchers fully cite the data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's name, and page(s).
Preferred Citation
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape number and side if no transcript; if digital audio and no transcript, cite time when quote occurs].

Interview List


Interviewee
Halleck, Charles A. December 15, 1969 

Call Number
69-042

Physical Description

199 pages; 7 tapes, 3 3/4 ips, 420 minutes; no index

Interviewer
Patterson, James T.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

Charles Halleck, born 1900 and died 1984, was a United States Representative (R) from Indiana and held the positions of majority and minority leader in the House. He begins by discussing his early life in school and local politics before expanding into his career as representative. He discusses several bills, committees, and legislation worked on as well as the major presidential conventions and elections held during his thirty plus years. He was heavily involved in many of them, and he discusses his opinions of them and the numerous personalities involved. Later, as one of the House leaders, he describes the relationship he had with presidential administrations and how heavily they advised or influenced Congress on particular issues.

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • Army ROTC
    • Delta Theta Pi
    • Indiana University
    • Ku Klux Klan
    • National Labor Relations Board
    • Republican Party
    • United States Supreme Court
    • U.S House of Representatives Committee on Rules
    • Occupation Names
    • attorney
    • United States Representative
    • Personal Names
    • Arends, Leslie C.
    • Bobbitt, Arch N.
    • Dewey, Thomas E.
    • Eisenhower, Dwight David
    • Goldwater, Barry M.
    • Griffin, Robert
    • Hamilton, John
    • Holder, Cale J.
    • Johnson, Lyndon Baines
    • Martin, Joseph W.
    • McCormack, John W.
    • Powell, Adam Clayton
    • Rayburn, Samuel T.
    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
    • Truman, Harry S.
    • Wadsworth, James W.
    • Warren, Earl
    • Willkie, Wendell L.
    • Place Names
    • Jasper County, Indiana
    • Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
    • Rensselaer, Indiana
    • Subjects
    • 1935 Wagner Act
    • 1940 Presidential Election
    • 1940 Republican National Convention
    • 1947 Taft-Hartley Act
    • 1948 Republican National Convention
    • 1952 Presidential Election
    • 1952 Republican National Convention
    • 1959 Landrum-Griffin Act
    • 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
    • 1964 Tonkin Gulf Incident
    • agricultural policy
    • education
    • Eisenhower administration
    • Great Depression
    • labor
    • Marshall Plan support
    • New Deal
    • World War I
    • World War II

Interviewee
Madigan, William L. April 6, 1978 

Call Number
78-017

Physical Description

50 pages; 1 tape, 1 7/8 ips, 110 minutes; no index; photograph of interviewee; newspaper clippings about his retirement

Interviewer
Anderson, Terry H.

Access Status

Open

Scope and Content Note

William Madigan, born 1912 and died 1986, got his A.B degree from Indiana University and became a newspaper reporter for the Indianapolis News and the Associated Press. His duties were to cover political events in the state, so he describes meeting and listening to presidential candidates such as Thomas Dewey and Harry S. Truman. He also covered state politics and laws, specifically the Ripper Bills and those relating to social and agricultural legislation. He enthusiastically describes the 1935 National Corn Husking Contest and briefly discusses his duties at Purdue University after his retirement from the Associated Press. While working at Purdue, he wrote 150 Years of Indiana Agriculture .

  • Keywords
    • Corporation Names
    • 4-H Club
    • Associated Press
    • Indiana University
    • Indianapolis News
    • Purdue University
    • Occupation Names
    • journalist
    • Personal Names
    • Christie, George I.
    • Hulman, Anton J., Jr. "Tony"
    • Jenner, William E.
    • Landon, Alfred M.
    • Minton, Sherman
    • Pitzer, Lawrence
    • Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
    • Schricker, Henry F.
    • Truman, Harry S.
    • Van Nuys, Frederick
    • Watson, James E.
    • Willkie, Wendell L.
    • Place Names
    • Lafayette, Indiana
    • Veedersburg, Indiana
    • Subjects
    • 150 Years of Indiana Agriculture
    • 1935 National Corn Husking Contest
    • agricultural education
    • agriculture
    • corn prices
    • farm depression
    • Great Depression
    • Ripper Bills
    • social legislation
    • urban migration

Interviewee
Walker, E. C. November 16, 1976 

Call Number
76-060

Physical Description

52 pages; 2 tapes, 1 7/8 ips, 140 minutes

Interviewer
Barrows, Robert G.

Access Status

Restricted: Contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice for more information.

Scope and Content Note

E. C. Walker, born in 1944, discusses Larry Conrad's 1976 gubernatorial campaign and recruitment for the position. He discusses campaign office organization and security problems. Walker also talks about the relationship with Democratic Party machinery.

  • Keywords
    • Personal Names
    • Conrad, Larry
    • Subjects
    • 1976 Indiana gubernatorial campaign
    • Democratic Party machinery
    • political campaign office
    • position recruitment
    • security problems

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