Oral history interview with Paul F. Foster, 1966.

Biographical Note

Naval officer.

Scope and Contents

Family background, Oklahoma and the land rush, Utah, Idaho; Naval Academy, cruises; gunnery and fire control; occupation of Ver Cruz, 1914; submarine service; Navy recruiting; engineering duty; resignation from Navy, 1929; Wall Street, adventures in business; Naval service World War II; Panama, Alaska, Puerto Rico, Assistant Naval Inspector General, Navy Manpower Survey Board; merchandising, Mandel Brothers, 1946-1950; World Bank, 1950-1954; Atomic Energy Commission, Atoms for Peace Program, Operations Coordinating Board, General manager, Atomic Energy Commission; United States representative International Atomic Energy Agency, 1959. Impressions of Admiral Thomas Hart, Lewis L. Strauss, John McCone, Vyacheslav Molotov, and many others.

Subjects

• Businessmen--Interviews.
• Foster, Paul F.--Interviews.
• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mason, John T., 1909-1998, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Merchandising.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Stock exchanges--United States.
• U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
• United States--Foreign relations--1953-1961.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States. Navy.
• World Bank.
• World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, American.