Reminiscences of John S. D. Eisenhower, 1972.

Biographical Note

Army officer, diplomat

Scope and Contents

Aide to President Eisenhower, 1956; Pentagon, 1957: Army Staff on Strategic Capabilities Plan and Joint Strategic Objectives Plan; decisions on weapons systems; opinions of President Eisenhower on: unification and centralization of armed services, size of ground forces, Navy's influence on White House, Pershing missile, first United States satellite, Berlin crises, U-2 affair; Presidential meetings with Lyndon Johnson, John Foster Dulles, Arthur Radford, Nikita Khrushchev, Charles DeGaulle, Konrad Adenauer and others, 1958-60; childhood reminiscences of grandparents' home

Subjects

• Burg, Maclyn, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Diplomats--United States--Interviews.
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
• Eisenhower, John S. D., 1922-2013--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• Veterans--Interviews.
• Weapons systems.

Access Conditions

Interview is in the public domain, 1973