Oral History Interview: John Sherman Cooper

In OH64-208, Senator John Sherman Cooper discusses his childhood, his education, community life, his political career, his legal career as a circuit judge, running for governor of Kentucky, his military career during World War II, the Marshall Plan, Congress, NATO, the United Nations, Communism, the Vietnam War, and serving as Ambassador to East Germany. He also discusses various political figures including Alban Barkley, Happy Chandler, chief Justice Frederick Vinson, Harry Truman, Joseph McCarthy, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy (and his assassination), and Barry Goldwater. In OH64-208A, Cooper discusses the Vietnam War in depth. The interview also includes sections on President Eisenhower, World War II, President Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Johnson, senator Fulbright and other member of Congress, and President Nixon.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1029/thumbnail.jp