Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Prescott Sheldon Bush, 1966
Creator: | Bush, Prescott Sheldon, 1895-1972 | Project: | Eisenhower administration project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | transcript: 454 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteBanker, senator
Scope and ContentsYale; World War I; early business experience, investment banking; W.A. Harriman & Co., 1926-31, Brown Brothers Harriman, from 1931, role of private banking; early political activities, Republican Party in Connecticut; Senator, 1952-62; committees, legislation, Randall Commission on tariff and trade; campaign of 1956, development of Republican platform; impressions of President Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Senators Robert A. Taft and Joseph McCarthy, Averell Harriman, Robert Roosa
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1979
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