Interview with Herman E. Talmadge, April 21, 1971

Partial Transcript: This is Hugh Cates, April 21st, 1971; I'm in the office of Senator Herman Talmadge of Georgia, a Democrat, and I'm about to talk to him about the late Richard Brevard Russell.

Keywords: Civil War; Eugene Talmadge; Great Depression; Kimball House Hotel

Partial Transcript: I think Senator Russell was probably the greatest man that I have served with in the United States Senate.

Keywords: Civil War; Democratic Executive Committee; Euguene Talmadge; Southern Democrats

Partial Transcript: Senator Talmadge, there's so many questions I would like to ask you, but I would like to ask you this one first.

Keywords: Chief Justice Richard Brevard Russell; Ellis Arnall; Eugene Talmadge; President Theodore Roosevelt; Southern Democrats; Walter F. George

Partial Transcript: Senator, I'd like to pose this question to you.

Keywords: Calendar Committee; Charles Robert Crisp; Democratic Steering Committee; UGA; United States Senate; University of Georgia; Ways and Means Committee

Partial Transcript: Senator Talmadge, someone asked me to ask you specifically about a little dinner or luncheon which you planned.

Keywords: Armed Services Committee; Gainesville Times; Secretary of Defense George Marshall; Sylvan Meyer

Partial Transcript: Senator Talmadge, I'd like to get you to comment about two things that were in the news yesterday.

Keywords: American Indians; Armed Services Committee; C5-A; Civil Rights; Civil War; Native American reservations; Soviet Union; Supreme Court; communism; segregation; unilateral disarming

Partial Transcript: Senator Talmadge, how do you think the press of world problems and national problems, how did this affect Senator Russell's health?

Keywords: Alexander Atkinson; Carl Sanders; Congressional Record; Great American Award; Lyndon B. Johnson; Patrick McNamara; U.S. Senate; civil rights

Partial Transcript: Senator, I would be amiss if I did not ask you to comment, maybe, a little more about the relationship of Senator Russell with Lyndon Johnson.

Keywords: Democratic Minority Leader Johnson; Dwight Eisenhower Administration; Robert Russell; Warren Commission