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Our guest is one of the most controversial figures in American public life. As a young man, he was a brilliant lawyer and teacher. And at the age of 30, he was named dean of the University of Oregon Law School. During World War Two, he served as chairman of the National Railroad Emergency Board and later as a member of the National War Labor Board. In 1944, he was elected to the United States Senate from the state of Oregon as a Republican. And in 1950, he was reelected, although the state Republican organization did not wholeheartedly support him. Two years later, in disgust, he quit the Republican Party. He served in the Senate for a while as an independent and then joined the Democratic Party. And in 1956, he was reelected to the Senate over a candidate who was warmly endorsed by President Eisenhower. Friend and foe alike agree on one point. He is indeed one of the most brilliant speakers in the nation today. It is a great pleasure to present Senator Wayne Morris of Oregon as our guest on Personal Profile.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=4.95,83.04"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Harold, it's a pleasure to be on this program with you. I think it's an educational program you conduct, and I'm pleased to participate in it with you. Well, Senator.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=83.91,91.47"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's do a little educating. Many of the observers call you various things, a maverick and this and that. How do you define your political philosophy?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=91.89,100.17"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Harold I'm a constitutional liberal. I'd mention three tenets very quickly. When I say I am a constitutional liberal, I believe that in America we need to put into legislative practice the private property guarantees and the human rights guarantees of the Constitution. If we do that, then we have a sound Liberal government. The second tenet I would stress is that the general welfare clause of the Constitution is the keystone of our political system. The only wealth that we really have not going to find it in the Wall Street or in smokestacks or in factories or farms. The only wealth we have is human wealth, human values. And the constitutional liberal seeks, by the way, of the legislative process to do those things necessary to promote the general welfare of people. The last tenet I would mention of many tenets of my political philosophy is the tenant that deals with my responsibilities as a legislator. And this is what gets you in the political doghouse now and then. Harold. You see, I do not believe that party comes first. I believe that principle comes first. I'm Burkey and as we say, I follow the philosophy of Edmund Burke. The primary responsibility of the legislator is to exercise an honest independence of judgment on the basis of the merits of issues in accordance with the facts as he finds them. And that means, for example, that if you think your party is wrong on an issue, you leave your party on that issue. For example, at the present time, may I say I didn't resign from the Republican Party to go into the Democratic Party to follow a mistaken leadership. And at this time, some of the leaders of the Democratic Party are quite wrong on the tax issue. Take Sam Rayburn, for example, speaker of the House of Representatives. He's a great statesman. He has a great record. But I think he's just dead wrong on the tax issue. He's joined with President Eisenhower against tax cuts. I happen to think we need tax cuts. I also happen to think, may I say, Harold, that politicians should keep their word. And the speaker of the House of Representatives was in the House of Representatives during the war when the excise taxes were put up and the excise taxes were put on to do two things. One, to prevent the purchasing of consumer goods. We didn't want the purchasing of any consumer goods during the war that didn't have to be purchased because we wanted to use the economy of ours to prosecute the war. It was a war economy. And of course, they were put on in order to raise quick revenue. But they would put on and let me stress this, they were put on by a House and by a Senate with the repeated pledge that they would be taken off when the war was over. Now, I happen to believe that politicians should keep their word. I speak most respectfully but sincerely when I say this. I think the Senate and the House should take the excise taxes off because they're still discouraging purchasing. They still are serving as a serious brake upon this economy. And that's why I'm not going to follow the Democratic leadership on the tax issue.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=101.34,293.34"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, now, Senator Morse, back in 1944, and you were running for the Senate, I believe your program was principle above politics. Now, in view of this, do you think there's a possibility that you one day may return to the Republican Party?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=293.77,309.02"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I think there's no possibility at all. And I'll tell you why, Because I went to Oregon, a progressive Republican. I came out of the state of Wisconsin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=309.65,316.73"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e I think your first campaigning was for fighting Bob LaFollette.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=317.6,321.8"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I campaigned as a student for La Follette in Wisconsin. And then in 1924, when I was teaching at the University of Minnesota. I campaigned for Bob La Follette for the presidency of the United States. So my position on this matter of so-called party regularity is well known. I never put party regularity first. I put issues first. I put what I considered to be the welfare of the people of this country first. That, as I say, is Burgard. But I want Oregon as a liberal Republican. I had hoped that the progressive idea could be inculcated into the Republican Party in the state of Oregon. I tried hard. I failed. In 1952. Two things became very clear to me. One was I couldn't follow the political expediency of the Republican candidate for the presidency. I knew then the kind of record he was going to make, and he's made that sorry record of expediency. And second, it became very clear to me that the Republican machine in my state intended to get me out of the Republican Party as soon as they could. And so we made a fight of it. I thought all the people of Oregon ought to have a chance to vote on me, not just the Republicans. So I resigned from the party, went independent. And then when the Democrats made clear that they wanted me to come into the Democratic Party, I ran as a Democrat. And the results speak for themselves.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=322.34,401.66"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Senator, let's turn for a moment to a matter of great concern all across the nation. Not so long ago, Congressman Mehan of Texas, who is generally considered to be one of the most responsible members of the House of Representatives, particularly when it deals with defense appropriation matters. He had this to say when the Soviets made their big and significant breakthrough with Hispanics last fall and gave us a more meaningful view of our capabilities. We became aroused, humiliated, angry, frustrated and determined. There was even a touch of hysteria which was not very becoming to our great and powerful country. Now the hysteria is gone. The anger has cooled and the determination has been flooded. As I judge the situation, our emotions and resolves have run the whole gamut. From the peak of awareness and urgency to the humdrum plain of complacency. You travel all across the nation quite often, speaking to various groups. Do you agree with this observation?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=402.79,469.34"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e No, I don't share that observation. And there are many other bits of evidence that I could present. But the latest is California. What do you suppose happened in California last week in that election? There wasn't any complacency. There isn't any question about the fact that the people at the grassroots of California are aroused. The tremendous vote that came out, a repudiation of the administration's program, I think, is pretty clear indication that the people are no longer complacent. People of this country are greatly concerned. Let me say to my colleagues in Congress that are way ahead of the Congress. The Congress is lagging the people today. The people want some action, for example, on many fronts. The people want some action on the economic front, to which I've already alluded. The people want some action on the foreign affairs front. And I think the American people are beginning to wake up to the fact that we're supporting totalitarianism around the world, not freedom in area after area. We're supporting dictators around the world, not democracies in too many parts of the world. That's why I made the fight I made a few days ago in the Senate of the United States for the improvement of the foreign aid bill. I'm for foreign aid, but I'm not a rubber stamp for Eisenhower on foreign aid, because I think there's much in this foreign aid that's a great waste. There's an overemphasis on the military and an under emphasis on economic aid based upon loans and not give away. And I think the people are with me on it. And you're going to see, I think in November 58th, they're not complacent. There's going to be a political upheaval in this country, in my judgment, in both November 58th, November 60th.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=470.36,572.13"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Now, you're speaking of foreign aid and our foreign problems. Recently, the director of Foreign Policy Research Institute at the University of Pennsylvania wrote an article about what had happened to the United States since World War Two. He summed it up pretty much like this, that the vital prizes are already gone. The United States and its allies, China is gone. The Suez Canal is gone. Southeast Asia is slipping and France is in peril. The winner in all of these fronts, the countries must go as. Making his biggest war games without firing a shot. Now, at the end of World War Two, American prestige was very high all around the world. And according to virtually all observers who traveled abroad since then, it has slipped steadily. What can we do that we're not now doing to restore our prestige?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=573.14,621.76"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Well, I don't want to seem to be just partizan and political when I say this, but it's an ugly fact and the American people better face up to it. You better get a new secretary of state. I think the sad thing is that John Foster Dulles is so determined to prove himself right when he is so completely wrong. And we continue to make the mistakes by keeping him at the head of the Department of State. And apparently, as President Eisenhower, who lets the dollars do his work for him in the field of foreign policy, doesn't take enough time off the golf course to really study what's going on in American foreign policy. It's a pretty serious thing. Look at what happened in the foreign aid debate last week. Look at how this administration surrendered on a couple of issues. For example, let's take this matter of of empowering the president to use the great prestige of his office and the decisive powers of his office to determine what we should do in so-called satellite countries. We say we want to win the satellite countries over. We spend huge sums of money for espionage and spying purposes and subversive activities and and satellite countries. And we're going to have to do that. It's an ugly fact, but it happens to be true. But here we had in the foreign aid bill a proposal to modify the so-called battle act that would have permitted us by way of a front door entrance through the president's intervention in some instances, to do something for the people in these satellite countries, because if they're going to eventually get their freedom, they're going to have to be strengthened their people. What happened while we had the reactionaries in the Congress proposed to strike it from the foreign aid bill, and then we had the White House weasel on it. And when it became clear that the White House thought maybe that ought to be handled in a separate bill and gave the rationalizations and alibis to enough senators. So we got B 4342. That was the vote. Now, where was Dulles on that? They should have been out there pointing out to the American people that here was a chance for us to strike a blow for freedom. Let's take the language we had in the bill on India. Now, as Asia and Africa go, and I say this as the chairman of the American delegation that went to India last December to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference. I tell the American people on this telecast that as India goes, Asia and Africa will go in the next 50 years and we better wake up to that fact. And Russia is going to woo India. And all we put in this act, this foreign aid act last week was a statement of the fact that we were willing to join with other nations in assisting India economically on its second Five-Year Plan. Now, that meant loans, not gifts. And they then they tried to strike it, but we won that one. But we didn't get any help from the White House.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=622.36,799.54"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e On that note, we'll have to close. It's been a great pleasure to have Senator Wayne Morris of Oregon as our special guest here in Washington on Personal Profile.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=800.14,809.89"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e My pleasure to be with you, Harold.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242#t=810.94,811.9"}]},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2300/collection_resources/141303/file/261242/transcript/76203/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/076/203/original/trint_001-24-181_transcript.vtt?1740082415","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/076/203/original/trint_001-24-181_transcript.vtt?1740082415"}]}]}]}