Reminiscences of Marietta Tree : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Civic leader, diplomatic representative.

Scope and Contents

Recollections of Adlai Stevenson; appointment to UN Human Rights Commission; US mission to the UN under Stevenson; Democratic Advisory Committee; Stevenson's relationship with Lyndon Johnson; 1952 campaign; press representation during the 1950's; 1956 campaign; Cuba missile crisis; NSC; Marine landing in Dominican Republic; last weeks of Stevenson's life and Stevenson funeral. Impressions of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, George Ball, John F. Kennedy.

Subjects

• Civic activism.
• Civic leaders--Interviews.
• Davis, Kenneth, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Diplomacy.
• Diplomatic representatives--Interviews.
• Fritchey, Clayton, interviewee.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ive
• Fritchey, Clayton--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.
• Tree, Marietta, 1917-1991--Interviews.
• United Nations.
• United States--Foreign relations--1950's.