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Oral history interview with Mark O. Hatfield [Session 29, Recording 01]
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- 2002-02-28 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:30:14
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Mark Odom Hatfield was born in Dallas, Oregon, in 1922. He graduated from Willamette University in 1943. He served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II and was among the first U.S. forces to enter Hiroshima, Japan, after the atomic bombing of the city by the United States, an event that deeply affected his views on war. After his discharge, he returned to Willamette University to study law. After a year, he decided instead to focus on political science and transferred to Stanford University, where he earned his master's degree in 1948. He and Antoinette Kuzmanich were married in 1958; they later had four children. Hatfield was a liberal Republican and represented Marion County in the Oregon House of Representatives from 1951 to 1955, and in the Oregon Senate from 1955 to 1957. He served as Oregon secretary of state from 1957 to 1959, and as Oregon governor from 1959 to 1967. He represented Oregon in the U.S. Senate from 1967 to 1997, serving as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997. He died in 2011.
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Tape 38, Side 1. In the twenty-ninth interview session, conducted on February 28, 2002, Hatfield continues to talk about each presidential election from Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956 to Ronald Reagan in 1980. He talks about the rise of the religious right in the Republican Party, about delivering the keynote speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention, and about the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
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Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and Willamette University. Use is allowed according to the following license: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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- Oregon--Politics and government--20th century
- Christians
- Governors--Oregon
- Legislation--United States
- Legislators--Oregon
- Medical care--Research--Finance
- Nuclear weapons--Moral and ethical aspects
- Political campaigns--Oregon
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Public opinion
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American
- Oregon. Legislative Assembly
- Republican Party (Or.)
- Hatfield, Antoinette Kuzmanich
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- Hansen, Clark (Contributor)