Reminiscences of Arnold Saltzman, 1996.

Biographical Note

Businessman.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: Brooklyn, New York, Czechoslovakian ancestry, family reminiscences; Columbia College [CC], 1932-1936; B.A. political science and economics 1936, debate team, Jewish Students Organization president, Beta Sigma Rho chancellor; campus poitical environment; Premier Knitting Company: family business, sales manager, vice-president, factory unionization 1936; Office of Price Administration [OPA] 1940: general price administrator, price controls debates, War Production Board member, National War Mobilization effort; marriage 1942; Coast Guard ensign; Botany Mills vice-president; Seagrave Corporation president: national conglomerate, glass manufacturing, name change to Vista Corporation 1961; government activities: Atomic Non-Proliferation Treaty involvement; Central American diplomacy 1960s, Salvador, Guatemala, educational reform; Democratic Party campaigning, fund-raising; Kennedy and Johnson administration comparison; political impressions; Vietnam War: Columbia University 1968 demonstrations, own opposition, growing public distrust of government; 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention: Platform Committee involvement, protests, Hubert Humphrey's nomination bid; Czechoslovakia and Russia diplomatic missions late 1960s; Advisory Committee on National Growth and Development chairman; Speakers Committee for New York state legislature; New York State senator Democratic nomination bid; advisor to New York State Congressional Delegation 1973;League for Economic American Democracy: small business loans 1970s; Israel and Egypt diplomatic missions 1973; United States government and business relations; Soviet Union break-up: defense market impact, U.S. policy, advisor to Khyngystan, Georgia, Ukraine, natural resource utilization, privatization legislation; international economic globalization: North American Free Trade Agreement's [NAFTA] impact; Windsor Production Company president; Columbia University alumni activities: CC Fund chairman, John Jay Associates chairman, Board of Overseers chairman, Trustee, fund-raiser, Double Discovery Program funding, Saltzman Center for Constitutional Democracy Studies 1996; colleague reminiscences.

Subjects

• African Americans--Economic conditions.
• Businessmen--Interviews.
• Columbia University--Alumni and alumnae--Interviews.
• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Former Soviet republics.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978.
• Interviews.
• Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973.
• New York (State)--Politics and government--1951-
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Saltzman, Arnold A.--Interviews.
• Soviet Union--Relations--United States.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States--Relations--Soviet Union.
• United States. Office of Price Administration--Interviews.

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