Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Archibald Cox, 2000
| Creator: | Cox, Archibald, 1912-2004 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection.
(see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript: 234 pages Sound recording: 7 sound cassettes | | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteLawyer
Scope and ContentsBorn 1912, New Jersey, elementary and high school education; family background in legal profession; Harvard College: BA 1934, American History and Law School, LLB, 1937; college courses, professors, activities; clerkship with Judge Learned Hand; job at Ropes Gray law firm in Boston, introduction to labor law; activities during World War II: National Defense Mediation Board, State Department, Labor Department; Fair Labor Standards Act, enforcement and modification; Wage Stabilization Board; steel strikes; United Mineworkers Union; experiences as professor at Harvard Law School; work with John F. Kennedy: advisor to Senator Kennedy on labor law, work on presidential campaign 1960, impressions of Kennedy and inner circle; appointment as Solicitor General in Department of Justice; relationship with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; impression of Supreme Court Justices in Warren Court; Supreme Court appointment process; Solicitor General's Office: loyalties, duties, obligations, partisan politics and the judiciary, procedures and functions of the office, relationship with independent agencies; civil rights cases: sit-ins, desegregation, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act, States' rights, Fourteenth Amendment; Legal Defense Fund; apportionment cases; welfare cases; church and state cases; atmosphere in Washington during Cuban Missile Crisis; assassination of John F. Kennedy; work under Lyndon B. Johnson; return to professorship at Harvard and later work with Common Cause
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2006
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