Reminiscences of Raúl Margueirat, 1972

Biographical Note

Government official

Scope and Contents

Close support of Juan Peron from 1943; eyewitness account of Peron's coming to power in 1945; appointment as chief of protocol and ambassador; vignettes of supporters and major figures, many anecdotes and personal observations; circumstances of Juan Duarte's suicide; Eva Peron: trip to Europe, Foundation, political emergence, influence, illness and death; relations with United States; meetings with Dwight Eisenhower in United States, Milton Eisenhower's visit to Buenos Aires; events of 1955

Subjects

• Argentina--Foreign relations.
• Argentina--Politics and government--20th century.
• Government executives--Argentina--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Margueirat, Raúl--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Peronism.
• Perón, Eva, 1919-1952.
• Perón, Juan Domingo, 1895-1974.
• Romero, Luis Alberto, interviewer.