Reminiscences of Leo Goodman : oral history, 1976.

Biographical Note

Trade unionist.

Scope and Contents

Personal occupational background; Helen Gahagan Douglas ̀relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt; work with Douglas: on housing, rent control, National Housing Act of 1949, atomic energy issues, Atomic Energy Act of 1949; Douglas ̀work on small farming; contribution to investigation of House Select Committee on Lobbying Activities; Senate campaign, 1950: Central Valleys̀ importance, Nixons̀ campaign against her, Catholic issue; Douglas ̀rejection of directorship of Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1950.

Subjects

• Douglas, Helen Gahagan, 1900-1980.
• Goodman, Leo.
• Housing--Law and legislation.
• Ingersoll, Fern S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Nuclear energy--Law and legislation.
• Oral histories.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Congress--Elections, 1950.

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