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Matthew Connelly Oral History Interviews

   

Oral History Interviews with
Matthew Connelly

Chief investigator for the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (the Truman Committee), 1941-44, Executive Assistant to Senator and Vice President Truman, July 1944-April 1945; and Appointments Secretary to the President, 1945-53.
Interview Transcripts
November 28, 1967 | November 30, 1967 | August 21, 1968
By Jerry N. Hess
[Notices and Restrictions | List of Subjects Discussed]

 

Notice
These are transcripts of tape-recorded interviews conducted for the Harry S. Truman Library. A draft of each transcript was edited by the interviewee but only minor emendations were made; therefore, the reader should remember that these are essentially transcripts of the spoken, rather than the written word.

Numbers appearing in square brackets (ex. [45]) within the transcript indicate the pagination in the original, hardcopy version of the oral history interview.

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These oral history transcripts may be read, quoted from, cited, and reproduced for purposes of research. They may not be published in full except by permission of the Harry S. Truman Library.

 

 

 List of Subjects Discussed

 

 
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X-Y-Z

Abels, Jules, 137, 293
Acheson, Dean, 391, 395

    • cabinet member for Harry S. Truman, 330-331
  • Adams, Sherman, 128
    Air Corps, 38, 39
    Air Force, 223
    Alabama, 1, 7, 8
    Albany, Indiana, 36
    Alcoa Company, 51-52
    Allen, George, 94-95, 102, 103, 107, 122, 123, 150
    • in the administration of Harry S. Truman, 242-244
    Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), 51-52
    Amberg, Julius H., 26, 27
    American Federation of Labor (AFL), 104-105
    American Legion, 344
    American Overseas Air Line, 443, 444, 446
    American Trust and Banking Company, 196
    Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 276
    • Truman, Harry S., attitude toward, 428-429
    Anderson, Clinton P. J. 370
    Anderson, Howard S., 306
    Anderson, Jack, 440
    Andrews, Russell P., 215
    Ansberry, Peter, 56-57
    Argentina, 284
    Arizona, 65
    Arlington National Cemetery, 398
    Army Camps, construction of:
    • Connelly, Matthew J., investigates, 32-37
      Truman, Harry S., investigates, 29
    Arvey, Jacob M. (Jake), 275
    Associated Gas and Electric Company, 18
    Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), 46, 398
    Ayers, Eben, 185-186

    Ball, Senator Joseph, H., 67
    Baltimore, Maryland, 395
    Baltimore Sun, 183
    Barkley, Vice President Alben W., 77, 81, 82, 166, 167, 225, 272, 417, 422

    • and the Democratic National Convention, 1948, 276-279
      Democratic National Convention, 1952, difficulties with delegates, 418-419
    Barnes, James M., 188-189
    Barrows, Roberta, on staff of Harry S. Truman, 250-252
    Barry, Francis (Frank), 306
    Batt, William L., Jr., 292
    Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, 103
    Bell, David E., 155, 209-211, 302, 426
    Bethesda Navy Hospital, 343
    Biddle, Francis, 357-358
    Biffle, Leslie, 227, 277, 418-419, 421, 422
    Big Four Powers, 223, 224, 227-228
    Bilbo, Senator Theodore, 391
    Birkhead, Kenneth, 292
    Bixler, Catherine, 139, 141
    Blair-Lee House, 173, 395, 398, 400, 420, 437
    B'nai B'rith, 430
    Boston, Massachusetts, 105, 110, 387
    Boyle, William M., Jr., 11, 43, 86-87, 13