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Watergate Affair, 1972-1974

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Alta Mitchell, interviewed by Sarah Jane Adamski

 Series
Abstract 0886 Alta Mitchell, interviewed by Sarah Jane Adamski for IDL 105, October 27, 1974, Sanford, Maine. 24 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. and trans. Mitchell talks about her life and travels during the first half of the twentieth century; her thoughts on early twentieth-century US presidents; why she worked to repeal Prohibition; working for women’s suffrage; her views on Nixon and the Watergate scandal; meeting Truman and his propensity for cursing; welfare work in Germany after WWII; teaching...
Dates: 1974-1980

Betty Brown, interviewed by Rebekah Rawding

 Series
Abstract 1005 Betty Brown, interviewed by Rebekah Rawding, November 1, 1975, Paris Hill, Maine. Brown discusses the events and ideas of the mid-twentieth century; her childhood, including chores and religion; long-standing desire to be a nurse; her thoughts on marriage and the ideal man; rise of society’s ecological consciousness; growing popularity of health food; Nixon and the Watergate scandal; apathy towards government; music of her childhood and teenage years; “Hair” and men with long hair;...
Dates: 1974-1980

Cathy Murray, interviewed by Susan Stewart

 Series
Abstract 1006 Cathy Murray, interviewed by Susan Stewart, November 9, 1975, Augusta, Maine. Murray talks about her childhood in the 1950s and 60s with a working mother and subsequently divorced parents; her job as a speech therapist; movies of the 1970s; her views on women’s liberation and gender roles; her ideal man; recollections of Kennedy’s assassination; view of the Vietnam War; Nixon, the Watergate scandal, and political corruption. Text: 31 pp. transcript plus 4 pp. catalog. Recording: T 1018...
Dates: 1974-1980

William S. Cohen Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SpC MS 0106
Abstract

Personal papers consisting of the records created by Cohen and his staff in the course of Cohen's duties as a member from Maine of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973 to 1978, as a U.S. Senator from 1979 to 1997, and as Secretary of Defense from 1997 to 2001.

Dates: 1955-2001; Majority of material found within 1972-2001

Lewis Kershner, interviewed by Nancy Chellis

 Series
Abstract 1003 Lewis Kershner interviewed by Nancy Chellis, November 3, 1975, in Orono, Maine. Kershner talks about historical events of the 1960s and 70s; Nixon and the Watergate scandal; joining the ROTC and prolonging his college career to avoid being sent to Vietnam; opinion of draft dodgers; positive view of women’s liberation as long as it is not militant; Kennedy’s assassination and how it differed from Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination; reaction to the Kent State and Jackson State...
Dates: 1974-1980

Terry-Ann Lunt Aucoin, interviewed by Michele Byrnes

 Series
Abstract

1013 Terry-Ann Lunt Aucoin, interviewed by Michele Byrnes for IDL 105, fall 1975, Bangor Community College, Maine. 38 pp. Tape: 1 hr. w/ brief cat. and trans. Aucoin, director of the Maine Human Rights Commission, talks about her life and education; politics; Kennedy’s assassination; Kent State; Vietnam War; Nixon and Watergate; ERA; women in the job market. Text: brief catalog and transcript. Recording: T 1024 1 hour.

Dates: 1974-1980

Web page: Senator William S. Cohen, Career Highlights, 02 Jan 1997

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS 106_3_4_8
Scope and Contents

Includes the following sections: Watergate, Iran-Contra & Ethics, A Force for Moderation, Expertise on Defense, Intelligence and Foreign Affairs, Service to Seniors, Making Government Work Better, Promoting Maine Abroad, Working for Maine People, Author, Poet

Dates: 02 Jan 1997