Life History: Lee Hamilton, 2014
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Indiana University Bloomington
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Overview of the Collection
Repository:
Indiana University Center for Documentary Research and Practice
Indiana University
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Creator
Center for the Study of History and Memory
TitleLife History: Lee Hamilton, 2014
Project No.
ohrc119
Interviews
1 interview. Audio files, transcript, and digital video.
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
Congressman Lee Hamilton (1931- ) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana from 1965-1999, and worked
as a Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. His scope of work allows him to draw poignant connections between the social
and political upheaval of the 1960's Vietnam War and Civil and Women's Rights Movements with the challenges of the first decades
of the 21st Century. He describes the shift of the American experience from post-WWII exceptionalism to the cynicism of the
Watergate Scandal and 9/11. His anecdotes about Presidents from Johnson to Obama (including Christmas Day games with Bush)
offer quirky, insider perspectives about each of their idiosyncrasies. He is now a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory
Council and is the Director of the Center on Congress and a professor at Indiana University, encouraging youth to improve
on the flaws and structural issues of Congress he saw while working there.
Scope and Content Note
This series of six interviews was conducted in the Summer of 2014. The second interview session was recorded by video. Congressman
Lee Hamilton discusses his long political career as a representative for the U.S. House of Representatives for the Indiana
9th District.
Administrative Information
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
Hamilton, Lee July 3, 2014
July 8, 2014
July 18, 2014
July 23, 2014
September 3, 2014
September 12, 2014
Call Number:
14-075
Physical Description
199 pp.; 6 .wav files, 16 bit/44.1 kbs, 1 video file; index
Interviewer:
Lopez, Gloria; Truesdell, Barbara; Bodnar, John
Scope and Content Note
Congressman Lee Hamilton (1931- ) was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Indiana from 1965-1999, and worked
as a Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. His scope of work allows him to draw poignant connections between the social
and political upheaval of the 1960's Vietnam War and Civil and Women's Rights Movements with the challenges of the first decades
of the 21st Century. He dscribes the shift of the American experience from post-WWII exceptionalism to the cynicism of the
Watergate Scandal and 9/11. His anecdotes about Presidents from Johnson to Obama (including Christmas Day games with Bush)
offer quirky, insder perspectives about each of their idiosyncrasies. He is now a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory
Council and is the Director of the Center on Congress and Professor at Indiana University, encouraging youth to improve on
the flaws and structural issues of Congress he saw while working there.
Access Status
Open
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Keywords
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Corporation Names
- Center on Congress
- Democratic Party
- Democratic National Committee
- DePauw University
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Indiana University
- United States Congress
- United States of Representatives
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Geographic Names
- Indiana
- Germany
- China
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Occupations
- Politician
- Attorney
- Congressman
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Personal Names
- Bush, George, Sr.
- Carter, James Earl Jr.
- Cheney, Dick
- Clinton, William Jefferson
- Hussein, Saddam
- Johnson, Lyndon Baines
- Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Lugar, Richard G.
- Mills, Wilbur
- Nixon, Richard Milhous
- Obama, Barack
- Reagan, Ronald Wilson
- Russell, Richard
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Subjects
- 1964 presidential election
- 9-11
- abortion
- Al-Qaeda
- American exceptionalism
- campaign
- campaign fundraising
- campaign office
- Cold War
- Democrats
- Foreign Relations of the United States
- Great Society
- Iran-contra affair
- Panama Canal
- parades
- political changes
- political involvement
- political party affiliation
- Roe v. Wade
- Soviet-American relations
- Vietnam War
- Watergate
- women and labor
- women's rights
- World War II
