Interview with Kathleen Carter, April 26, 1979

Project: Frontier Nursing Service Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Kathleen Carter is a member of the Washington Committee of the FNS and the wife of former Congressman Tim Lee Carter. She discusses her husband's interest in rural health care from the standpoint of his own background as a physician. Carter also recalls the events surrounding Richard Nixon's visit to Hyden in 1979 and comments upon the Carters' relationship with the Nixons.

Interview Accession

1979oh188_fns087

Interviewee Name

Kathleen Carter

Interviewer Name

Dale Deaton

Interview Date

1979-04-26

Interview Keyword

Congressman Tim Lee Carter Medical care--Appalachian Region Medicine, Rural Physicians--Kentucky President Richard Nixon Rural health services Washington (D.C.)

Interview LC Subject

Appalachian Region--Social conditions Appalachian Region--Social life and customs Frontier Nursing Service, Inc. Hyden (Ky.) Leslie County (Ky.) Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 Politicians--Kentucky Regionalism--Appalachian Region United States--Politics and government--Moral and ethical aspects

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