Interview with Albert Benjamin "Happy" Chandler, November 6, 1978
Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Former governor A. B. "Happy" Chandler discusses his accomplishments as governor, including the establishment of the medical school at the University of Kentucky. He mentions the formation in the 1950s of the Eastern Kentucky Planning Commission, which he terms a forerunner of the Appalachian Regional Commission. He also recalls a visit to Morgan and Breathitt counties with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1938. While campaigning in Leslie County, he visited with Mary Breckinridge at Wendover. Chandler comments upon Richard Nixon's visit to Hyden in 1979, his first public appearance following his resignation as president in 1974.Interview Accession
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Dale Deaton
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Academic medical centers--Kentucky--Lexington--Planning Appalachian Regional Commission Barkley, Alben William, 1877-1956 Governors--Kentucky Kentucky--Politics and government. Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 Political campaigns--Kentucky Rural roads United States. Works Progress Administration. University of Kentucky. Medical CenterInterview Rights
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Chandler, Albert Benjamin Interview by Harry M. Caudill. 06 Nov. 1978. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Chandler, A.B. (1978, November 06). Interview by H. M. Caudill. Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Chandler, Albert Benjamin, interview by Harry M. Caudill. November 06, 1978, Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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