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Reminiscences of Chester Bowles, 1963.

Creator: Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 866 pages
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Diplomat, government official

Scope and Contents

Education at Choate and Yale; advertising, 1925; Benton and Bowles; radio advertising, product research and pricing; Defense Council; America First movement; Connecticut rationing administrator; Price Administrator; relations with Congress, Cabinet, and government officials; Office of Price Administration; stabilization, postwar period; campaign for Democratic gubernatorial nomination, Connecticut, 1946; Americans for Democratic Action; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, United Nations Relief and Rehablitation Administration, 1946-1947; Governor, Connecticut, 1948-1950; appointment of William Benton as Senator from Connecticut; 1950 campaign; Ambassador to India, 1951-1953; Senate campaign, 1958; posts and relationships, Kennedy administration; Ambassador to India, 1963; Observations on national and international political figures, especially Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, James Byrnes, Donald Nelson, Jawaharlal Nehru, Adlai E. Stevenson

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976

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