Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967 Page: 27
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majority of the Board. In any event, he was in direct contact with
Bullington during the meeting and after I left the meeting, and
subsequently was in contact with members of the Board in relation
to the actions he contemplated them taking.
Cochran: Um'hum. Well I know there was a lot of...to revert back for a
moment to after you returned from the meeting in Dallas, I know
there was a great deal of controversy running through the campus.
Do you recall specifically?
Foster: Yes, there was a lot of activity going on in the controversy. Stu-
dents, many of them, wanted to organize a march on the state capi-
tol and so on.
Cochran: This was in response to the regents reaction to your...
Foster: Yes. And shortly after the incident itself. Initially, the Board
acted in a fashion that we mentioned before, you know in...I think
in the Galveston meeting, for example, in which they attacked some
of the senior members of the department. There was a big turmoil.
The Daily Texan, which is the University's newspaper, took up the
issue and carried it on throughout the controversy. Efforts were
made to expand the case by the editor of the Daily Texan, who was
a young fellow by the name of Elgin Williams. He subsequently was
a professor of economics in various institutions, and he was author
of some fairly important treatises, I think. In any event, it
seemed to me at the time, and it still does, that what the regents
wanted to do was take over the University. And the politicians,
through a highly political and partisan Board, wanted to make the
institution into something of a handmaiden for the ends, whatever
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Cochran, Kendall & Foster, J. Fagg. Oral History Interview with J. Fagg Foster, August 28, 1967, book, April 16, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223563/m1/28/?rotate=180: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.