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Oral History Interviews with
Leon H. Keyserling
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Member of legal staff, Agricultural Adjustment Admin., 1933. Secretary and legislative assistant to Sen. Robert F. Wagner (New York), 1933-37. Gen. counsel, U.S. Housing Authority, 1937-38; deputy administrator and gen. counsel, 1938-42; acting administrator, 1941-42. Acting commissioner, Federal Public Housing Authority, 1942. Gen. counsel, National Housing Agency, 1942-46. Vice chairman President's Council of Economic Advisers, 1946-50; chairman, 1950-53.
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See also Leon H. Keyserling Papers finding aid
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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.
RESTRICTIONS
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 They may not be published in full except by permission of the Harry S. Truman Library.
Appendicies
Appendix I: Unsigned memorandum, dated June 29, 1948, entitled "Should the President call Congress back?" (Truman Library Personal Papers Collection, Papers of Samuel I. Rosenman, 1944-1966: Box 9; Subject File; 1948; Campaign 1948; HST Acceptance Speech).
Appendix II: Copy of June 25, 1946 letter from Senator Robert Taft to Wilson Wyatt, Administrator of the National Housing Agency, recommending Leon Keyserling for the position of Commissioner of the Federal Public Housing Authority (Truman Library Papers of Harry S. Truman Collection, Staff Member and Office Files, Clark M. Clifford Files: Box 7; Housing Administration [Folder 2 of 2]).
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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
- 80
Adams, Sherman, 125
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 5, 6
Altmeyer, Arthur, 16
American Economic Committee, 30, 31
Baruch, Bernard,
- 88
Beaufort County (S.C.) Welfare Board, 2
Beaufort, South Carolina, 1, 2
Bell, David E., 99, 103, 104
Biffle, Leslie L., 177
Black, Hugo L., 34, 176
Blough, Roy, 108, 167
Brandeis, Louis, 18
Brannan, Charles F., 53, 58, 67, 78
Budget, U.S. Bureau of the, 163-164, 166-170
Burns, Arthur, 42, 125, 140, 150-151, 164, 190
Burton, Harold H., 73
Byrnes, James F., 6, 73
Caplan, Benjamin,
- 182-183
Cardozo, Benjamin N., 13, 14
Chapman, Oscar L., 77, 78
Charleston, South Carolina, 1
Civil rights, 81-82
Clark, John D., 37, 41-42, 54, 108, 112-113, 115, 122, 130
Clifford, Clark M., 51, 56, 58, 64, 67-70, 72, 73, 76, 99, 100, 103, 110, 111, 187
Cohen, Benjamin, 36
Colm, Gerhard, 126, 179-182
Collett, J. Caskie, 74
Columbia University, 4
Corcoran, Thomas G., 36
Council of Economic Advisers, 29-32, 37, 40-55
Council of Economic Advisers:
- appointments to, 40-43, 106-109, 111-112, 129-130, 148
budget for, 123-125
Congressional liaison, and, 173-177
economic policies during Korean War, 133-139, 156-158
economic policy of the Truman administration, impact on, 192-194
function of, 44-46, 49-53
membership, background and qualifications, 130-132, 145-147
policies, general economic, 84-86, 88-92
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