Reminiscences of Herbert Brownell : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Lawyer, politician

Scope and Contents

Childhood, education; corporate law practice, Lord & Day 1929-1953, 1957- ; work with Security and Exchange Commission law, New Deal administration while in New York State Assembly, 1934-1937; counsel for 1940 World's Fair, NY; responsibilities as Dewey's presidential campaign manager, 1944-1948; corporate law in 1940s-1950s; United States Attorney General, 1953-1957; 1973 Mexican-American Water Treaty dispute; impressions of Richard Nixon and Justice Warren Burger

Subjects

• Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 1904-1996--Interviews.
• Corporation law.
• Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund), 1902-1971.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Law--United States.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Lord & Day.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• New York (State). Legislature. Assembly.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Presidents--United States--Election--1944.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1948.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States. Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General.