Reminiscences of Gordon Gray : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Government official

Scope and Contents

Education, University of North Carolina, Yale Law School; early legal practice; publishing; North Carolina State Senate, 1938-42, 1946-47; service in World War II; Assistant Secretary and Secretary of the Army, 1947-50; unification of services, civilian control of Department of Defense; Special Assistant to President Harry Truman, 1950; President, University of North Carolina, 1950-55; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1955-57; service intelligence operations; Director, Office of Defense Mobilization, 1957-58; Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for National Security Affairs, 1958-61; Robert Oppenheimer case and Personnel Security Board for Atomic Energy Commission, 1954; National Trust for Historic Preservation; Commission for Financing Hospital Care; Research Triangle Institute

Subjects

• Government executives--United States--Interviews.
• Gray, Gordon, 1909-1982--Interviews.
• Hopper, Paul, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Intelligence service--United States.
• Interviews.
• Military intelligence.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
• United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Department of Defense.
• United States. Department of the Army.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1987