Eisenhower administration project : oral history, 1962-1978.

Scope and Contents

This project has gathered firsthand testimony from those who played major roles in the Eisenhower Administration (1953-1961), as well as the recollections of observers and of those knowledgeable about special aspects. In addition to General Dwight D. Eisenhower and members of his family, the list of participants below includes members of the White House staff, cabinet members, political advisers, members of Congress, administrators, scientists, journalists, ambassadors, military and civilian specialists, and others in a position to testify about trends and events of the period. Among topics well documented are the Republican conventions and campaigns of 1952 and 1956, the functioning of White House advisers and staff, the President's relations with his cabinet, the functioning of the Bureau of the Budget and various independent agencies, relations with the press, scientific developments, and other special aspects too numerous to mention, the whole interlaced with anecdotes about major and minor episodes in public life in the 1950s. A series of interviews done in Little Rock, Arkansas, on the school integration crisis there, is of particiular interest. In addition to memoirs done under Columbia's aegis, the series includes twelve donated by Professor Herbert S. Parmet, who conducted them in preparing his EISENHOWER AND THE AMERICAN CRUSADES (Macmillan, 1972), and sixty-eight thus far acquired from the Eisenhower Library through an exchange agreement whereby both institutions share oral history transcripts about Eisenhower, his family, career and administration, under identical restrictions. These acquisitions explain the fact that, in the listing that follows, some names are repeated with different pages numbers after each. Participants and pagination of transcripts: Elie Abel, 45; Helen Ackenhausen, 57; Sherman Adams, 268; Sherman Adams, 50; Bertha S. Adkins, 72; George D. Aiken 31; H. Meade Alcorn, 159; Winthrop W. Aldrich, 38; T. Dale Alford, 84; George V. Allen, 136; Joseph Alsop, 19; Dillon Anderson, 130; Jack Z. Anderson, 64; Robert B. Anderson, 27; J. Sinclair Armstrong, 125; Levy J. Asper, 18; Allen V. Astin, 57; Evan P. Aurand, 138; Henry S. Aurand, 34; Frederick W. Babbel, 169; James W. Barco, 1,061; Ray W. Barker, 97; Rollin D. Barnard, 60; Edward L. Beach, 470; J. Bill Becker, 33; Earl C. Behrens, 44; Jack L. Bell, 31; Stephen Benedict, 137; Stephen Benedict, 34; Charles E. Bennett, 18; Ezra Taft Benson, 12; Andrew H. Berding, 38; John A. Bird, 39; J.W. Bishop, 115; Richard M. Bissell, 48; Douglas M. Black, 53; Harold Boeschenstein, 24; Charles E. Bohlen, 25; Robert R. Bowie, 51; Omar N. Bradley, 23; C.L. Brainard, 77; Karl Brandt, 69; Wiley A. Branton, 61; Vivion Brewer, 43; John W. Bricker, 40; Ellis O. Briggs, 139; Wallace R. Brode, 51. Participants and pagination of transcripts continued: Herbert Brownell, 347; Herbert Brownell, 16; Herbert Brownell, 49; Samuel Brownell, 83; Percival F. Brundage, 52; Wiley T. Buchanan, 174; E. La Mar Buckner, 18; William A.M. Burden, 81; Carter Burgess, 40; Arleigh A. Burke, 249; James V. Burke, 53; Arthur E. Burns, 45; Prescott Bush, 454; Richard C. Butler, 46; Earl L. Butz, 51; Ralph Cake, 78; O. Hatfield Chilson, 54; Mark W. Clark, 91; Lucius D. Clay, Sr., 1,101; Lucius D. Clay, Sr., 113; Lucius D. Clay, Sr., 39; Jacqueline Cochran, 257; Wilbur J. Cohen, 45; Roy Cohn, 15; Clement Conger, 25; Charles D. Cook, 658; Howard A. Cook, 16; Richard W. Cook, 73; Charles A. Coolidge, 35; William G. Cooper, Jr., 40; Kenneth Crawford, 26; Thomas B. Curtis, 46; John A. Danaher, 58; Noobar R. Danielian, 51; Harry Darby, 73; Clarence A. Davis, 106; Wesley D'Ewart, 136; Thomas E. Dewey, 43; Edward T. Dicker, 32; C. Douglas Dillon, 94; Robert J. Donovan, 51; James H. Douglas, Jr., 52; Lewis Douglas, 56; George Douthit, 48; William H. Draper, Jr., 18; Roscoe Drummond, 32; Eleanor L. Dulles, 973; Eleanor L. Dulles, 124; Eleanor L. Dulles, 41; Donald A. Dumont, 76. Participants and pagination of transcripts continued: Ed Edwin, 46; Dwight D. Eisenhower, 114; Edgar Eisenhower, 117; John S.D. Eisenhower, 144; John S.D. Eisenhower, 147; Milton Eisenhower, 115; Milton Eisenhower, 55; Milton Eisenhower, 54; Edward L. Elson, 293; Ford Q. and Anita M. Elvidge, 47; Harold Engstrom, 61; Luther H. Evans, 34; Orval Faubus, 135; Robert H. Finch, 69; Leonard Firestone, 15; Ivan M. Fitzwater, 59; Ralph Flanders, 51; J. Clifford Folger, 42; Edward Folliard, 72; Marion B. Folsom, 163; Abram Forney, 18; Clarence Francis, 37; William B. Franke, 50; Howard Funk, 12; Thomas S. Gates, Jr., 59; Thomas S. Gates, Jr., 38; James M. Gavin, 36; Robert O. Gemmill, 87; Barry Goldwater, 81; Andrew J. Goodpaster, 137; Arthur Gray, Jr., 32; Gordon Gray, 338; Gordon Gary, 58; Robert K. Gray, 38; Howard C. Green, 100; Peter Grimm, 21; Nat R. Griswold, 84; Ernest Gross, 984; Alfred M. Gruenther, 97; Homer Gruenther, 107; Amis Guthridge, 27; L. Richard Guylay, 90; Louis M. Hacker, 38; James C. Hagerty, 569; James C. Hagerty, 109; Najeeb E. Halaby, 32; Leonard Hall, 59; Leonard Hall, 24; Leonard Hall, 62; Charles A. Halleck, 35; Robert E. Hampton, 57; John W. Hanes, Jr., 27; D.B. Hardeman, 146; Raymond A. Hare, 114. Participants and pagination of transcripts continued: Bryce N. Harlow, 144; Karl G. Harr, Jr., 41; Wilson Harwood, 52; Gabriel Hauge, 130; Gabriel Hauge, 28; Brooks Hays, 165; Leonard D. Heaton, 80; Loy W. Henderson, 57; Hans von Herwarth, 4; Stephen Hess, 41; John Hightower, 41; Robert C. Hill, 105; Luther H. Hodges, 39; Eric Hodgins, 162; Leo A. Hoegh, 95; John B. Hollister, 52; Amory Houghton, 96; A.F. House, 43; Patricia House, 46; Katherine G. Howard, 600; Elizabeth Huckaby, 75; George M. Humphrey, 62; Joe Ingraham, 58; Joe Ingraham and H. Jack Porter, 177; Nettie Stover Jackson, 43; Albert Jacobs, 38; Neil H. Jacoby, 141; Jacob Javits, 15; Frederick Peterson Jessup, 105; Jesse C. Johnson, 36; Roger W. Jones, 73; Len B. Jordan, 65; Walter H. Judd, 149; Walter H. Judd, 149; James T. Karam, 29; Kenneth B. Keating, 126; Henry J. Kellerman, 23; David W. Kendall, 85; Gordon Kidd, 108; James R. Killian, Jr., 400; Arthur A. Kimball, 104; Helen S. King, 29; George Kinnear, 47; Grayson Kirk, 59; Herbert G. Klein, 39; Goodwin J. Knight, 94; William F. Knowland, 170; Walter Kohler, Jr., 52; Robert L. Kunzig, 40; William S.B. Lacy, 20; James M. Lambie, Jr., 49; Alvin H. Lane, 39; Alvin H. Lane, 49; Sigurd S. Larmon, 92; William H. Lawrence, 37. Participants and pagination of transcripts continued: J. Bracken Lee, 70; William L. Lee, 482; Barry Leithead, 52; Lyman Lemnitzer, 64; John W. Leonard, 107; Orme Lewis, 54; R.A. Lile, 31; John Davis Lodge, 195; Mrs. Robert J. Long, 5; Mary Pillsbury Lord, 428; Robert A. Lovett, 21; Clare Boothe Luce, 108; John Luter, 79; Eugene J. Lyons, 90; Clarence Manion, 98; Thomas C. Mann, 60; Thomas C. Mann, 90; Henry J. Matchett, 42; Earl Mazo, 52; Charles V. McAdam, 62; Edward A. McCabe, 171; Kevin McCann, 158; Carl W. McCardle, 48; Nancy J. McCarty, 58; John J. McCloy, 47; John J. McCloy, 16; John A. McCone, 16; Alvin McCoy, 35; James McCrory, 19; John F. McDonnell, 59; Neil McElroy, 88; Edward Perkins McGuire, 97; Theodore R. McKeldin, 78; Sidney McMath, 31; Henry R. McPhee, Jr., 58; Clifton L. Mears, 73; Livingston T. Merchant, 86; Robert E. Merriam, 209; Henry L. Miller, 58; L. Arthur Minnich, 34; J. Bradshaw Mintener, 65; William L. Mitchell, 84; John A. Moaney, 138; Ray Moore, 45; Malcolm Moos, 41; Edward P. Morgan, 53; Gerald D. Morgan, 133; E. Frederick Morrow, 175; True D. Morse, 114; Robert D. Murphy, 45; Robert D. Murphy, 21; Ancher Nelsen, 34; Arthur Nevins, 87; Herschel D. Newsom, 108; Kennedth D. Nichols, 100. Participants and pagination of transcripts continued: Roderic O'Connor, 144; Floyd and Helga Oles, 125; Dennis O'Rourke, 41; Don Paarlberg, 164; Hugh A. Parker, 76; Bradley H. Patterson, 65; Hugh Patterson, Jr., 86; John S. Patterson, 54; G.R. Pearkes, 53; Charles H. Percy, 33; Wilton B. Persons, 161; Howard C. Petersen, 69; Lelia G. Picking, 24; Richard M. Pittenger, 37; Sir Charles Portal, 11; H. Jack Porter, 47; H. Jack Porter, 53; Terrell E. Powell, 34; Wesley Pruden, 33; Howard Pyle, Jr. and Charles Masterson, 134; Elwood R. Quesada, 88; Maxwell Rabb, 38; Maxwell Rabb, 23; Ogden R. Reid, 22; Ralph W.E. Reid, 51; Edward E. Rice, 73; Chalmers Roberts, 36; Charles Roberts, 72; Clifford Roberts, 878; Walter S. Robertson, 194; Nelson A. Rockefeller, 40; William P. Rogers, 51; Robert V. Roosa, 153; Richard H. Rovere, 44; Roy R. Rubottom, Jr., 95; Stanley M. Rumbough, 39; Harrison E. Salisbury, 48; Irving Salomon, 39; Leverett Saltonstall, 151; Irene Samuel, 48; Howland Sargeant, 26; Raymond J. Saulnier, 71; J. Earl Schaefer, 38; Leonard Scheele, 44; Raymond Scherer, 54; G. David Schine, 20; Robert L. Schulz, 293; Fred C. Scribner, Jr., 83; Stephen Shadegg, 30; Bernard M. Shanley, 123. Participants and pagination of transcripts continued: Dudley C. Sharp, 67; James Sheldon, 186; Joseph S. Sheldon, 28; Joseph S. Sheldon, 59; William T. Shelton, 35; James R. Shepley, 39; Robert Lee Sherrod, 52; Allan Shivers, 58; David M. Shoup, 29; Rocco Siciliano, 112; William H. Simpson, 127; Ellis D. Slater, 38; Ilene Slater, 58; Bromley Smith, 36; Howard K. Smith, 44; Merriman Smith, 79; William J. Smith, 90; Robert E. Smylie, 72; Orin Snider, 52; Murray Snyder, 66; Mansfield D. Sprague, 57; Elmer B. Staats, 59; James R. Stack, 132; John H. Stambaugh, 102; Maurice H. Stans, 84; Harold Stassen, 68; John R. Steelman, 89; Thomas E. Stephens, 98; Robert G. Storey, 65; Lewis L. Strauss, 177; Theodore Streibert, 35; Arthur Summerfield, 93; Glenn W. Sutton, 45; D. Walter Swan, 95; Joseph Swing, 76; Robert H. Thayer, 44; Walter N. Thayer, 52; Jessie Thornton, 41; Edward J. Thye, 76; Webster B. Todd, 90; Thor C. Tollefson, 82; Janet Tourtelotte and Edith Williams, 68; Everett Tucker, Jr., 62; Elbert Tuttle, 113; Nathan F. Twining, 250; Wayne Upton, 64; James J. Wadsworth, 248; David W. Wainhouse, 32; Abbott M. and Wanda Washburn, 91; Arthur V. Watkins, 98; Sinclair Weeks, 172; Anne Wheaton, 178; Francis O. Wilcox, 63; E. Grainger Williams, 65; W. Walter Williams, 103; Charles F. Willis, Jr., 50; Ray I. Witter, 41; Henry Woods, 56; Henry Wriston, 51; Charles R. Yates, 34; Milton R. Young, 31; Zaghi, Frederick A., 12

Subjects

• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Education.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• Agriculture--United States.
• Cabinet officers--United States--Interviews.
• Communism--United States.
• Diplomatic and consular service.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Judicial process--United States.
• Korean War, 1950-1953.
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Politicians--United States--Interviews.
• Presidents--United States--Election--1952.
• Press conferences.
• Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
• School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock.
• United Nations.
• United States--Economic policy--1945-1960.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• United States--History--1953-1961.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States--Race relations.
• United States--Social conditions.
• United States. Congress.
• United States. Department of Defense.
• United States. Department of State.
• Women--Political activity--Interviews.
• World War, 1939-1945.