Clifford Gibbons Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Andy Huse
Publication Date
2024
Date
2023-05-17
Abstract
In this third installment of Cliff Gibbons recollections, Gibbons discusses his fathers’ relationships between other U.S. Senators. Cliff Gibbons recalls controversies and scandals on the senate floor that took place during his father’s tenure that informed professionalism and laws. He brings up the qualifications of the Civil Rights Act and Judge Smith, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and the Vietnam war, committees that served to support Lyndon B. Johnsons Great Society agenda, and Clayton Powell’s discharge petition.
Keywords
Sam M. (Sam Melville) Gibbons (1920-2012), John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy (1917-1963), Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) Johnson (1908-1973), Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (1908-1972), John McCormick (1891-1980), Sargent Shriver (1915-2011), Richard Helms, Charles B. Rangel (1930- ), Robert McNamara (1919-2009), Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Howard Worth Smith (1883-1976), White House (Washington D.C.), Jeb Bush, University of South Florida, Political campaigns, Education
Extent
01:23:09; 24 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Tallahassee (Fla.); Tampa (Fla.); Washington (D.C.)
Language
English
Digital Date
2024
Media Type
Oral histories
Format
Digital Only
Identifier
gibbons-cliff-ohp-3
Recommended Citation
Gibbons, Clifford S., "Clifford Gibbons Oral History Interview, Part 03 of 10" (2024). Clifford Gibbons Oral History Project. 2.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgibbons_ohp/2
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