Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Kenneth Claiborne Royall, 1963.Biographical NoteGovernment executive, lawyer
Scope and ContentsEducation; Harvard Law School and LAW REVIEW; German saboteurs case, 1942; head legal department, Fiscal Division of Army Service Forces, 1942-1943; Special Assistant to Secretary of War, 1944-1945; postwar congressional relations and investigating committees; Under Secretary of War, Secretaary of War, Secretary of Army, 1945-1949; unification of armed forces; 1948 Democratic presidential nomination; postwar crises: Turkey, Greece, Berlin blockade, Korea, Japan and Douglas MacArthur; integration efforts in Army; rejection of suggested appointment, Nuremberg trials. Impressions of Presidents Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower, Generals. George Marshall and James Van Fleet, Secretaries James Forrestal and Stuart Symington, others
Subjects- Government executives--United States--Interviews.
- Ingersoll, William T., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
- Interviews.
- Korean War, 1950-1953.
- Lawyers--Interviews.
- Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
- Oral histories (literary works)
- Presidents--United States--Election--1948.
- Rounds, Frank W., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
- Royall, Kenneth C. (Kenneth Claiborne), 1894-1971--Interviews.
- United States--Armed Forces--African Americans.
- United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
- United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- United States. War Department.
- World War, 1939-1945.
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