Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Henry Breckinridge, 1952.
Creator: | Breckinridge, Henry, 1886-1960 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 327 pages 10 leaves of letters from Woodrow Wilson; 107 leaves of interviewee's journal and letters | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteLawyer
Scope and ContentsFamily background; Princeton; Harvard Law School; law clerk in Baltimore; practice in Lexington, Kentucky; election of 1912; appointment as Assistant Secretary of War; the Army (generals, red tape, Board of Review); Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom; Mexico; World War I in Europe; mission to Europe; LUSITANIA; preparedness and the administration; congressional relations; Supreme Court justices; Army justice and discipline; soldiers in alien lands; growth of aviation; the New Deal
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972
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