Reminiscences of Charles Poletti, 1978.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, politician; interviewee b.1903

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Vermont, education, Harvard Law School; New York politics and legislation while counsel to Governor Lehman, 1933-37, on State Supreme Court, 1937, Lieutenant Governor, 1938-42, Governor, December 1942; World War II, administering liberated Italy; 1964 New York World's Fair, diplomatic problems; association with St. Lawrence Power Development Commission, 1930 to 1960s; impressions of John W. Davis, Corliss Lamont, Robert Moses, Herbert H. Lehman, Franklin Roosevelt, General George Patton

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Lehman, Herbert H. (Herbert Henry), 1878-1963.
• Liebmann, William B., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• New York (N.Y.)--Exhibitions.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Poletti, Charles--Interviews.
• Politicians--Interviews.
• Saint Lawrence River--Power utilization.
• World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984