Reminiscences of John Roy Steelman : oral history, 1957.

Biographical Note

Labor administrator

Scope and Contents

Boyhood and education; work as federal conciliator with emphasis on years as Director of United States Conciliation Service; relationship of Conciliation Service to the Department of Labor; impressions of Frances Perkins, Isador Lubin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Thomas G. Corcoran, and others; labor adviser and special assistant to President Truman; Cabinet and White House staff meetings; relations with leading members of both Houses of Congress; personalities and influences which helped to shape the major decisions of the Truman administration

Subjects

• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--United States.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Shaughnessy, Donald F., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Steelman, John Roy, 1900-1999.
• Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1953.
• United States. Conciliation Service.
• United States. Department of Labor.