Reminiscences of O. Hatfield Chilson [electronic resource] : oral history, 1976

Biographical Note

Government official

Scope and Contents

Assistant Secretary for Bureau of Public Land Management, 1956-1957, Under Secretary of Department of Interior, 1957-1958: passage of Coordination Acts concerning conservation and reclamation of land, Indian land management problems, helium conservation and production; recollections of Frederick Andrew Seaton and Dwight D. Eisenhower

Subjects

• Chilson, Hatfield, 1903-1991--Interviews.
• Conservation of natural resources.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories.
• Public lands--United States.
• Soapes, Thomas F., interviewer.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States. Bureau of Land Management.
• United States. Department of the Interior.