Arthur Levitt project : oral history, 1983-1987.

Scope and Contents

The career of Arthur Levitt (1900-1980) is recounted by family, friends and associates, with particular emphasis on his redefinition of the role and function of New York State Comptroller, a post which he occupied from 1954-1978. His contribution to the office included a new concept of fiduciary responsibility and giving it the character of an aggressive auditor of state and local monies; he believed he had converted the office into a nonpartisan one, in the same sense as a judgeship. Participants and pagination of transcripts: Charles Bensley; Sidney M. Davis; John Jay Feeney, 97; William Covington Hardee, 15; Louis Lefkowitz, 68; Arthur Levitt, Jr.; Dorothy Wolff Levitt; Marion Murphy, 50; Edward V. Regan, 38; Charles Simon, 56; Maury Spanier, 34; Spatz, Theodore, 18; Shirley Vogel; William B. Volet, 60; Robert F. Wagner; and Malcolm Wilson, 31

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Levitt, Arthur, 1900-1980.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government--1951-
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1951-
• Oral histories.