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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-HHH-01
Humphrey discusses first impressions of JFK, their shared service on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, political wrangling over the Democratic vice presidential candidacy in 1956, 1960 Democratic primaries and Presidential election.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-HWH-01
In this interview Hazen discusses how he came to support JFK for the 1960 presidential nomination; Paul Corbin and JFK’s campaign in Wisconsin’s seventh district during both the primary and the general election; how Republicans in the seventh district voted in the Wisconsin primary and the general election; JFK’s ignorance of how the farm economy worked; tensions between JFK’s and Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaigns; the attempt to woo Humphrey’s Wisconsin delegates over to JFK’s side; the 1960 vice presidential nomination; and bitterness over Humphrey’s loss of the Democratic nomination in 1960, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-EWIP-01
This interview focuses on the 1960 Democratic primary and general election in Wisconsin and the Kennedy administration’s legislative program, among other topics.