Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Herbert Brownell, 1968.Biographical NoteLawyer, politician
Scope and Contents1952 pre-convention and election campaigns; Republican Party; selection of the Cabinet; other appointments; Justice Department and Attorney General's Office; immigration; integration; Emmett Till case; Brown case; Tidelands case; Bricker amendment; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; Joseph R. McCarthy; Adam Clayton Powell; Civil Rights Act of 1957; Little Rock crisis; presidential incapacity legislation; national security; labor racketeering prosecution; anti-trust law enforcement; impressions of Dwight Eisenhower
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2013
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