Interview with Colgate W. Darden [manuscript], 1978 July.

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Interview with Colgate W. Darden [manuscript], 1978 July.

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In an interview conducted by Charles Hardy, Darden discusses his years as Congressman, Governor of Virginia and president of the University of Virginia. Topics include Harry Byrd, the social security system, wartime Civil Defense, liquor shortages, probation and parole reform, University of Virginia as the capstone of public education, and the United Nations and his investigation of slavery in the Arab world. Topics also include the poll tax, massive resistance, the Bakke decision, the decline of state power, public lack of confidence in the national government, problems in secondary education, and the need for continued emphasis on it, his hopes for world peace, and his philosophy of life.

1 videocassette (60 minutes) : Betamax l-750; color.

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