Reminiscences of Henry Breckinridge, 1952

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Family background; Princeton; Harvard Law School; law clerk in Baltimore; practice in Lexington, Kentucky; election of 1912; appointment as Assistant Secretary of War; the Army (generals, red tape, Board of Review); Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom; Mexico; World War I in Europe; mission to Europe; LUSITANIA; preparedness and the administration; congressional relations; Supreme Court justices; Army justice and discipline; soldiers in alien lands; growth of aviation; the New Deal

Subjects

• Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Phillips, Harlan B., interviewer.
• United States--Foreign relations--20th century.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.
• United States. War Department.
• Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924.
• World War, 1914-1918.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972