Oral history interview with Prescott Sheldon Bush, 1966.

Biographical Note

Banker, senator

Scope and Contents

Yale; World War I; early business experience, investment banking; W.A. Harriman & Co., 1926-31, Brown Brothers Harriman, from 1931, role of private banking; early political activities, Republican Party in Connecticut; Senator, 1952-62; committees, legislation, Randall Commission on tariff and trade; campaign of 1956, development of Republican platform; impressions of President Eisenhower, John Foster Dulles, Senators Robert A. Taft and Joseph McCarthy, Averell Harriman, Robert Roosa

Subjects

• Bankers--Interviews.
• Banks and banking.
• Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co.
• Bush, Prescott Sheldon, 1895-1972--Interviews.
• Connecticut--Politics and government--20th century.
• Interviews.
• Investment banking.
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States. Congress.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1979