Oral history interviewee with Alton Frye, 2007.

Biographical Note

Presidential Senior Fellow Emeritus at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Scope and Contents

Early life: childhood in Nashville, Tennessee, frequent travel, and settlement, throughout the Southern region of the United States, father manager of small finance companies, return to Nashville, Tennessee, mother a bank teller, passing of father in 1948, early relationship with future wife, enrollment in St. Louis University; education: St. Louis University B.A., Yale University M.A.; college years: government major, full time radio disc jockey, experience with the KXLW, one of the first black radio stations in America director of St. Louis community center, promotion to director of programs (St. Louis community center), recollections of St. Louis University college faculty, academic interest in international affairs, memories of Yale University, interest in various opinions of United States Republican senators; awards: Southern Honor Scholarship recipient, Owen D. Young Award, Junior Sterling Fellowship; post-college career: congressional fellow, RAND Corporation, Edward W. Brooke legislative director, Edward W. Brooke staff director, Senate staff member, relationship with various senators, recollections of both the Eisenhower Administration/ Nixon Administration, discussion of strategic nuclear arsenals, creation of an institute for Congress as a nonpartisan advisory body to the leadership in the House and Senate; author: Woodrow Wilson Center, science policy, writings on Nazi Germany, wars powers issue; Council on Foreign Relations (CFR): CFR membership, construction of the CFR in Washington D.C., board relations, board rules and regulations, gender and racial diversity, the CFR magazine, growth of Council, CFR Washington D.C. versus CFR New York City, colleague reminiscences, present-day CFR

Subjects

• Arms control.
• Council on Foreign Relations.
• Foreign affairs (Council on Foreign Relations)
• Frye, Alton--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Nuclear disarmament.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rosendorf, Neal, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• United States. Congress. Senate.
• University of Missouri--St. Louis. Center of Community and Metropolitan Studies.

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