Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Henry Agard Wallace, 1951-1953.
Creator: | Wallace, Henry A. 1888-1965 | Project: | Individual interviews oral history collection. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript 5520 pages Sound recording 2 reels Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteGovernment executive, cabinet member
Scope and ContentsA memoir abundantly supported by diaries and correspondence. Childhood; WALLACE'S FARMER; impressions of Henry Cantwell Wallace; the McNary-Haugen fight; election of 1932; organizing the Department of Agriculture and Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Hugh Johnson; National Recovery Administration and early New Deal personalities; Resettlement Administration; election of 1936; Supreme Court fight; New Deal and farm problems, 1937; Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; "Ever-Normal Granary"; recession, 1937-39; the "purge"; politics and the third term issue; Food Stamp plan; food administration; Forest Service controversy; election of 1940; Mexican trip; World War II; stockpiling; Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; Board of Economic Warfare; Vice-Presidency; "The Century of the Common Man" speech; United States-British relations; invasion of North Africa; Latin American trip, 1943; Britain and Russia in wartime; Democratic Party politics, 1943; trip to Soviet Asia; election of 1944; Department of Commerce; United Nations; Export-Import Bank; Russia after the war; Palestine; resignation; Bernard Baruch atomic entergy plan; NEW REPUBLIC; trips abroad; Progressive Party and the election of 1948; policies. Audio for the interview only covers two segments represented in the transcript. The first segment of audio corresponds to pages 1-61 and was heavily edited for the transcript. The second segment of audio corresponds to pages 1189-1239
A 323-page addendum, undertaken 1952-1953, contains random reflections in answer to questions based chiefly on Wallace's editorials in WALLACE'S FARMER
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976
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