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TRANSCRIPTS OF SIDNEY SHALETT'S INTERVIEWS WITH ALBEN W. BARKLEY, 1953

• The Barkley Ancestral Narrative
• First Experience with radio in 1924; Rene Viviani of France; start of War, 1917; after the war; atrocity camps in Germany; childhood days; Barkley's law practice; airplane story; childhood days misc.; snakes; 1889 cyclone; first girl friend.
• Teenage days; family stories; William Lindsay from Kentucky; Barkley as a salesman; town of Paducah; Dickens and Copperfield stories; first law job; Woodrow Wilson story, 1913; William S. Bishop; famous gavels; Milton H. Smith; featherbed story; Barkley as a teacher; Dean Acheson.
• The antique story; first marriage ceremony; early law days; committees; early upbringin'; Irvin Cobb; the first association with Franklin D. Roosevelt.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt (continued); beginning of the Truman era.
• Campaigning with Franklin D. Roosevelt at Corbin, Kentucky in 1932; events leading to the 1952 convention.
• 1952 convention (continued); bathroom conference with Roosevelt; after Yalta.
• Governor Adlai Stevenson and story that Congressman Frank Clark used to tell; beginning of Barkley's Congressional career and his associations, observations and recollections of President Wilson, discussion about Bryan, Roosevelt, and Truman.
• Wilson administration continued; World War I under President Wilson; Mr. and Mrs. Barkley discuss how they first met.
• Mr. and Mrs. Barkley (continued); Barkley days at Marvin S. C.; discussion about World War I trip to Europe; discussion about President Herbert Hoover.
• Race for the Governor of Kentucky; discussion on old-fashioned orators; Tom Heflin; rules of the House and Senate; typical day of a Senator or Congressman.
• Senate duties; Huey Long; Russell Long; junkets; trip to Korea; trip to Russia in 1930; trip to London; John Garner.
• Discussion about the 12 years of the Republican administration.
• Airplane campaign of 1948; Dewey and Warren; television; Champ Clark; Cordell Hull; on Pearl Harbor Day with the Japanese; death of Roosevelt; discussion about the House of Representatives.
• Irvin Cobb story; Mitchell Palmer's bombing; Barkley's meeting King Michael of Rumania; Claude Kitchen of North Carolina; Barkley's early life; discussion of famous personalities; Henry T. Raney; J. W. Burns; Sam Rayburn; Joe Cannon; Hiram W. Johnson.
• Hiram Johnson (continued); Charles L. McNazry; Charles Curtis; Kenneth S. Wherry; Senator LaFollette; George W. Norris; Woodrow Wilson's love for vaudeville; Marian Anderson at the White House.
• Knickerbocker incident; Richard P. Ernst; Governor Chandler race; Roy Howard; Huey Long; Fred Vinson; Joe Robinson; Col. E. M. House.
• The watch story; Westbrook Pegler; FDR; Yalta story; 80th Congress; Goebbels; little pigs, etc.; load of hay story; agricultural relief; NRA; pleas of business.
• Gold clause; social security; bank deposits; PWA and WPA; merchant marine; rise of Hitler; United Nations; Harry Hershfield story on "where buried."
• Pearl Harbor investigation; the SEC investigation; WOW; poll tax fight; hog-calling; labor role at convention; Mr. Wilson; Roosevelt's early career; 1952 labor stab; Barkley's role in 1920 convention; Justice Brandeis; trip to Israel in 1934.
• Roosevelt; Joining Elks Lodge; Aunt Betty Passage; W. H. Borah and J. H. Lewis; Lewis and Long retort; convention excerpt begins.
• Convention speech; land-lease bill; seniority system; investigations of Senate; cyclone story; miscellaneous.

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