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P: So you did two things: you wrote him and you talked to Ed Price.
L: Well, I talked to Ed Price before I wrote to Dr. Tigert.
P: I see.
L: I wanted to know if he was a part of the cover-up. I'd known
about other cover-ups enough to know that I just didn't like it and
I was very unhappy. It was just against my system and it is
today, when I hear of a cover-up in the state. I protested
a cover-up in Bob Grahams's administration the first week.
Well, then I wrote to Millard Caldwell. I knew Millard.
P: You were a friend of Millard Caldwell's.
L: I was a friend. I wasn't so much, but my father and my older
brother were friends of Millard Caldwell. I wrote to Millard and
I said there are a lot of things about this university that ought
to be corrected and there are some people on the outside of the
university that know something about it. I'm writing to you
to support the legislative investigation of the infirmary. I
don't know what will happen there, but it needs to go further.
I also recommended the appointment of Henson Markham as a member
of the Board of Control. I wrote to him. Much to my surprise,
the next week Henson Markham was appointed. So, I had that entree
to the Board of Control.
P: What was your relationship to Henson Markham? Were you friends
in college?
L: Henson Markham was the president of the student body. .
P: When you were here?
L: When I was there on the campus, and I helped to elect him. That's
when we beat the old Beefsteak Club.
P: I was just wondering how far your relationship went back.
L: He was the one who spurred the investigation of Beverly Mann and
ended up with the expulsion of several people.
P: So you helped, perhaps, or suggested Markham to go onto the Board
of Control.
L: And the next week he was appointed. I don't recall that I ever
received a reply from Millard Caldwell to that letter, but the next
week Henson Markham was appointed. Now I'm going to tell you something