Reminiscences of Frank Thompson, Jr., 1967

Biographical Note

Legislator

Scope and Contents

Boyhood, Trenton, New Jersey; federal support of the arts; Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; New Jersey Democratic politics, 1928-50; creation of National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities; impressions of John F. Kennedy, Jacob Javits

Subjects

• Burns, Joan Simpson, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Federal aid for the arts.
• Federal aid to research.
• Interviews.
• Legislators--United States--Interviews.
• New Jersey--Politics and government.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Politicians--Interviews.
• Thompson, Frank, Jr., 1918-1989--Interviews.
• United States--Intellectual life.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984