Reminiscences of Edward Betzig, 1986

Biographical Note

Foreign aid advisor

Scope and Contents

Childhood in New York City; education at Colgate and Columbia Universities; service in World War II; travel in Brazil after war; joins Institute of Inter-American Affairs; impressions of work in Saudi Arabia, Iran, and South America; evaluation of effectiveness of US foreign policy in Latin America; discussion of effects of travel on self and family

Subjects

• Betzig, Edward Carl, 1914-2009--Interviews.
• Economic assistance, American.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Institute of Inter-American Affairs (U.S.)
• Interviews.
• Latin America--Description and travel.
• Latin America--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Foreign relations.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• Williams, James D., interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1988