| Title: |
Pat M. Holt
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
U.S. Congress. Senate. Historical Office
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| Collection: |
Senate Oral History Project
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| Series: |
Item 5 of Series Pat M. Holt
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| Description: |
A journalist who had reported for various newspapers and for the Congressional Quarterly, Pat Holt joined the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 1950. Because of his ability to speak Spanish, he became the committee's specialist in Latin American relations in 1958. Shortly afterwards came Vice President Richard Nixon's ill-fated tour of South America, ending with the storming of his limousine in Venezuela, and then Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba. Latin American relations assumed an increasingly important position on the committee's agenda. In 1965, suspicions over the Lyndon Johnson administration's version of conditions in the Dominican Republic gave Holt a unique opportunity to examine State Department and CIA records. His findings played a part in Chairman J. William Fulbright's break with the Johnson administration. Holt later served as chief of staff under the chairmanships of Fulbright and John Sparkman.
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| Extent: |
17 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Holt_interview_5.pdf
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
1953 to 1963
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| Speaker: |
Holt, Pat M., 1920-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
5-Sep-1920
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Gatesville, TX; Texas; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Chief of staff
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| Age at speaking: |
60
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| Document date: |
27-Oct-1980
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| Interviewer: |
Ritchie, Donald A.
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| People discussed: |
Fulbright, J. William; Fulbright, James William, 1905-1995; James William Fulbright; JFK; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963
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| Organizations discussed: |
U.S. Congress. Senate; U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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| Historical events discussed: |
Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
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| Locations discussed: |
District of Columbia; North America; South America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; District of Columbia; Federal government; Fulbright, J. William; Fulbright, James William, 1905-1995; International relations; James William Fulbright; JFK; John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Kennedy, John F.; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald, 1917-1963; Legislative bodies--United States; Legislators--United States; North America; Oral history; Political science--United States; Presidents--United States; Presidents--United States--Staff; South America; U.S. Congress. Senate; U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations; United States; United States--Officials and employees; United States--Politics and government
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0022093-23081
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