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Attorney, U.S. Treasury Dept., 1934-41; Asst. to the Attorney General of the United States, 1937-38; Special Asst. to the Gen. Counsel, Treasury Dept., 1941-42; Comdg. Officer, 5th Army Counter Intelligence Corps, 1943-45; Asst. Gen. Counsel, Treasury Dept., 1946-49; Alternate Member, President's Temp. Comm. on Employee Loyalty, 1946-47; Dep. Dir., Office of Contract Settlement, 1947-49; Asst. to the Special Counsel of the President, 1949-50; Administrative Asst. to the President, 1950; and Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, 1950-53.
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Interview Transcripts
1967
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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.
See also Stephen J. Spingarn Papers and Files
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 They may not be published in full except by permission of the Harry S. Truman Library.
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
A
- 265
Alien property, jurisdicition controversy, 1000-1003
Allen, George, as "court jester", 151
Amerasia case, 1090-1094
Americans for Democratic Action, 187-188
Arnold, Thurman, 267
Ayers, Eben, 119-120
Ayres, William, 652
B
Bailey, John,
- 239-240, 242-243
Bailey, Stephen K., 254
Barkley, Alben, 208-210
Basing-point bill, 156, 630-632
Bell, David, 74, 92, 378
Bentley, Elizabeth; and espionage case, 49-52, 769-777, 937-950, 1090-1092, 1095, 1097-1101
Bernstein, Barton, 103, 159-160, 168-175, 178-180, 222-227, 314-419, 414-415, 925-926, 967
Biffle, Leslie, 204, 211
"Big Four" (Congressional) meetings, 388-391
Bimson, Walter, 1074-1075
Bingham, Hiram, 987, 1003-1004
Blair, John, 906
Branscomb, Ann, 350-351, 426
Brooks, Philip, 221
Buckley, William, 12-13
Buffington, John A., 905
Bureau of the Budget and budget requests, 637-738
Burns, James MacGregor, 253-254
Butler, Paul, 237-238, 261-262
C
Cannon, Clarence,
- 418-419
Carliner, David, 409-411, 923
Carroll, John, 219
Carson, John, 651-652, 1064, 1078
Carter, Clifford, 244
Caudle, Lamar, 860-862
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1033-1042
Chambers, Whittaker, 934
Chatfield, Helen, 134
Cherne, Leo, 479-482, 545
Chewning, David, 458-461
Civil rights, 28-36, 104-105, 158-159, 174-175, 178-185, 200-204, 219, 573-578, 925-928
Civil Rights Commission and Truman's civil rights message, 28-30, 31-33
Clark, Tom, 42-45
Clifford, Clark, 57, 59, 65, 67-68, 71-73, 89-91, 96-97, 99-105, 815-858
Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, (Nimitz Commission), 127-132, 135
Communism in government, See Internal Security
Congressional liaison, 201, 204, 219, 388-391, 1067-1068
Connelly, Matthew, 123, 124
Consumer Dollar Study, 308-314
Cosgriff, Walter, 1074-1075
Costa, Carla, 993-994
Cox, Oscar, 670-674, 1000-1002
Criswell, John, 249-254, 473-478
Croce, Benedetto, 699-701
D
Dawson, Donald,
- 98, 138-140
Defense Production Act of 1950, 205-208, 362-372
Democratic Advisory Committee, 607-608
Democratic National Committee, 423-425, 446, 450, 458-466, 472, 483-484, 554-560, 608-609, 1005-1009, 1012-1015
Dennison, Robert L., 98, 154-157
District of Columbia, "Home Rule", 401-413, 918-924
Douglas, Paul, 254-255
Dudley, Ted, 196-198, 403
E
Edelstein, David N.,
- 787
Edwards, Corwin, 907
Eisenhower, Dwight D., and Harry Dexter White case, 709-711
Election campaign of 1966, 1005-1009
Election campaigns: of May 1950, 20-21
Elman, Philip, 223-225
Elsey, George, 67, 97, 102, 141-144
Espionage. See Internal Security
Espionage, in Italy, World War II, 683-701, 961-962, 981-984, 991-992
Ethics in government, 265-279, 1029-1033
F
"Fair Deal", 318-321
Fair Employment Practices Committee proposal,
- 202-204, 347-350, 352, 382-383
Fair trade legislation, 643-645
Farmer, James, 182-183
Federal Bureau of Investigation, 49, 51-54, 767-774, 776-777
Federal Trade Commission, 271-277, 283-285, 308-311, 579, 591-604
Feeney, Joseph, 201
Fish, Hamilton, 11-12
Foley, Edward, 447-450
Forrestal, James, 48-49
Freer, Robert, 879-883
G
General Electric Company, and price-fixing case,
- 639-640
Genocide treaty, 1070-1073
Glasser, Harold, 726-732, 737-740, 952-953
Golos, Jacob, 1097, 1101
Goodrich, Stanley R., 63-64
Gore, Louise, 618
Graham, Dr. Wallace, 158
Grunwald, Henry, 862-863
H
Haddad, William,
- 427
Hale, Matthew, 372
Hamby, Alonzo, 179, 925-927
Hansen, Donald, 75, 101
Hardy, Mrs. Willie, 488-489, 493
Hardy, Willie, 667
Harper, Alan, 974-978
Harris, Abe, 227
Hastie, William, 391-394
Hechler, Kenneth, 120-121, 144-148
Henderson, Larry, 258
Historians, and the Truman era, 965-978
Hoey, Senator Clyde R., 798
Homosexuality, and the security issue, 798-804
Hoover, J. Edgar, 54, 767-768, 1095-1097, 1101-1102
Horan, Michael, 59
Howrey, Edward F., 595-597
Humphrey, Hubert, 242
I
Institute for American Democracy,
- 301-304, 706
Internal Security, 726-757, 989-990, 1017-1018, 1098-1110
Internal Security bill, (McCarran bill), 210-213, 352-362, 1061-1062
Internal Security Subcommittee hearing, April 1953, 726-736
International Petroleum Cartel report of 1953, 271-279, 583-590
J
Japanese-American (Nisei) regimental combat team (442nd),
- 759-762
Japanese-Americans, relocation of, 758-762
Jenkins, Walter, 243-244, 1049
Jenner, Senator William E., 746-747
John Birch Society, 296-301
Johnson, Kenneth D., 788-789
Johnson, Lyndon B., 193-194, 659, 1050-1051
Johnson, William Sumner, 906-907
Johnston, Olin, 1046
Jones, Roger, 373-374
K
Kampelman, Max,
- 485
Kaplan, Harold, 524, 537-539
Kefauver, Estes, and election campaign of 1956, 228
Kelly, Frank, 121-122
Kern, William C., 599-604
Key West, Florida, and White House staff, 137-138
King, Larry, 332
Kintner, Earl, 475-476, 880-883, 897-899, 900-905, 1064, 1077-1078
"Knock on Every Door" campaign tactic, 228-256, 556-560, 606, 662-663
Korean War, 161-162
Krug, Julius, 82-83
L
Landry, Robert,
- 158
LaRue, Paul, 902
Lawton, Fred, 99
Legislation, and role of Bureau of the Budget, 373-375
Lend-lease Act, origin of, 670-676
Leuchtenberg, William, 159, 174, 966
Lewis, John (chairman of SNCC), 182
Lincoln, Abraham, as a "politician", 85-87
Lincoln, Evelyn, 241
Lightner, Herbert, 747-756
Littell, Franklin, 302
Lloyd, David, 74, 92, 97, 117-118
Lobbyist and influence peddling, 863-893
Lobbyists in Washington, 283-290
Lomax, Louis, 182
Longaker, Richard, 966, 1017
Lowenthal, Max, 125-126, 214-216, 1063-1064, 1078
Loyalty program, 42-55, 58, 59-64, 127-131, 136, 352, 679-683, 702-706, 928-964
Loyalty Review Board, 987
Lynch, Thomas, 40-41
M
MacArthur, General Douglas,
- 161
McCabe, Thomas, 133, 1073-1074
McCarran, Senator Pat, 127
McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 125-126, 135-137, 256-261, 292
McCarthyism, 423-424, 615-616, 1079-1080
McClellan, General George B., 161
McCormack, John, 234-235, 251-252
McCune, Wesley, 303
McGuire, Charles, 476, 478
MacIntyre, Everett, 905
McMillan, John, 411-412
McNeill, Robert, 245
Marks, A1, 462-463
Marshall plan, 417-420
Mason, Lowell, 641-642, 645-650, 899
Maylon, Charles, 201
Mead, James, 592-603
Meloy, Larry, 788-789
Messing, Gordon, 691-692
"Military mind", 155
Mitchell, Stephen, 260-262
Morgan, Edward, 259-260, 1079-1080
Morgenthau, Hans, 321-322, 324-330, 1025-1026
Morgenthau, Henry, 659-661
Morison, Samuel Eliot, 263-266
- and Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1952), 621-623
Morris, Robert, 726-757
Mrowa, Kamel, 278-279
Mumford, Lewis, 9-10
Mundt-Nixon bill, 361-362
Murphy, Charles S., 26-28, 45-46, 70, 73-74, 91-94, 100-103, 105-106, 204, 289, 386-387, 924
- and Spingarn, Stephen, 217
and White, Harry Dexter, case, 712-714
N
Nash, Philleo,
- 81, 113-114, 219-220
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 5-7, 345-346
National Counter Intelligence Association, 741, 747-753, 754, 990
National Counter Intelligence Corps, 985
National Issues Committee, 291-292
Navajo-Hopi rehabilitation bill, 79-82
"Negro" vote in 1948, 343-347
Neustadt, Richard E., 74-76, 96, 102, 394-398
Newman, Sarah, 197-198
Niles, David, 108-109, 219, 1063, 1065
- and White House staff conferences, 111-114
O
O'Brien, Larry,
- 239
O'Conor, Senator Herbert R., 211-213, 1060-1061
Oil companies, and cartel controversy, 271-279, 1018-1023, 1081-1084
Oliphant, Charles, 859-863
Oral history, methodology of, 676-679
P
Pearson, Drew,
- 287-288, 742-743
Perlman, Philip, 223-224, 226-227, 384-386
Perlo, Victor, 726-731
Pfretzchner, Paul, 455-457
Phillips, Cabell, 71-72, 90
Phillips, William, 486
Poker-playing, 124, 1076
Politics, myths of, 468-471, 510-516
Poverty programs, in Truman administration, 415-416
Powers, Ralph, 748, 756
Presidential campaign of 1948, 46-48, 56
President's Loyalty Commission, 784-796
President's Temporary Commission on Employee Loyalty, 59-64, , 928-964
Q
Quinn, Vincent,
R
Rauh, Joseph L., Jr.,
- 185-187, 193, 195-196, 198-199, 403-404
Raum, Arnold, 226-227
Rayburn, Sam, and Defense Production Act of 1950, 370
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), hearings, 139
Reese, Matthew, 450-454
Republican National Committee, and election of 1966, 463-465
Rice, Steve, 27 27
Roche, John P., 247-248, 479-480, 482, 485
Romagna, Jack, 132-133
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1085-1086
Roosevelt, Theodore, and Spingarn, Joel E., 2-3
Rose, Chapman, 716-718, 720, 723
Ross, Charles G., 115-117, 119
Rostow, Walter, 551-552
Rush, Dean, 1079-1080
Russell, Bertrand, 169, 171-173
S
"Scandals" in Eisenhower administration,
- 269-270
"Scandals" in Truman administration, 265-269, 862-863, 893
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 429, 431-432
Schwarzwalder, John, 754-755
Shackleton, Polly, 194-196
Shannon, William V., 89
Shea, Frank, 1001-1002
Sheehy, Joseph E., 905
Shulman, Marshall, 399
Siler, Carl, and "police bruality" case, 494-509, 665-668
Small business program, 132-133, 1073-1078
Smith, Bedell, and communism in government, 989-990
Smith, Stephen (Kennedy campaign), 241-242
Souers, Sidney W., 979
Speech writing, in 1948 campaign, 46-48
Speech writing for President Truman, procedures of, 117-119
Spingarn, Edward, 263
Spingarn, Jerome, 490
Spingarn, Natalie Davis, 492-493
Spingarn, Stephen:
- and Bernstein, Barton, 159-160, 168-175, 178-180, 222-227
civil rights program, role in, 31-34, 174-175
candidate in Democratic primary, Washington, D.C., 185-193
Clifford, Clark, assistant to, 66-68
as Commanding officer, 5th Army Counter Intelligence Corps, 24-25
and Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights (Nimitz Commission), 126-132, 135
and consumer protection program, 196-198
in election campaign of 1956, as debater, 439-443
election campaign of 1956, as Director of Special Activities, 228-231
election campaign of 1956, speechwriter in, 426-433, 436-438
and election campaign of 1960, 445-447
and Elsey, George, 142-143
and Federal Trade Commission:
as "gadfly", 669-670
and Harry Dexter White case, 713
and Harry S. Truman Library, deposit of papers in, 1086-1087, 1102-1103
and Home Rule Committee (District of Columbia), 921-924
and Internal Security issue in 1953, 726-757
and Johnson, Lyndon B., 21-24, 1050-1051
and inflation, fact sheet on (1966), 561-572
as "legislative counsel" on White House staff, 77-78
and liberalism, 181-184, 199
and Lowenthal, Max, , 1078 1063-1064, 1078
and loyalty questions, 57-59
military record of, 683-700
political philosophy of, 15-23
and Siler "police brutality" case, 494-509
and "spy articles", author of, 698-700
and Truman, Harry S., 576, 1062-1063, 1084-1085
White House, early invitations to, 8-9
White House staff, appointed to, 41-42, 57-58, 93, 1065-1068
wire-tapping, position on, 58
Sprecher, Drexel, 430
Staebler, Neil, 248-249
Steelman, John, 107
Stevenson, Adlai, 279-281, 443, 609-610
Stitt, Art, 738-741
Stoll, Norman, 69
Strout, Richard, 330-331
Symington, Stuart, 366-367
T
Thurmond, J. Strom,
- 1043-1048
Tillet, Gladys, 439-440
Tinsley, William, 905
Tipton, Stuart, 617-621
"To Secure These Rights" - civil rights report, 315-318
Truman, Bess, 624-625
Truman, Harry S.:
- as administrator, 1027-1029
and civil rights, motives for supporting, 576-578
civil rights policy of, 31-34, 158, 175, 200-204, 219-220, 224-225, 925
and Home Rule, for District of Columbia, 918-924
as "non-political", 83-85
and Spingarn, Stephen, 217-218, 576-580, 605-608
and White Harry, Dexter, case, 612-614, 707-725
White House staff, relations with, 334
Truman, Margaret, 624-626
Tubby, Roger, 97
Tydings Committee report, 127, 131
U
Ullman, William Ludwig,
V
Vanech, A. Devitt "Gus",
- 60-63, 703, 784-787, 794, 1066-1067
Vaughan, Harry, 148-150, 152-153
Vietnam War, 160-168, 516-552, 1104-1105
W
Walker, Senator Herman,
- 728-729
Walston, Lord Harry, 170
Warner, Sturgis, 404
Washington, D.C., "home rule", 401-413, 918-924
Watson, Marvin, 250
Wheelock, John, 907-909
White, Harry Dexter, case, 612-614, 707-725, 934, 1087-1088
White, Walter, 222
White House, administration of, 108-109
White House files, organization of, 133-134
White House manual, 382-390
White House staff conferences, 109-113, 379
White House Staff:
Wilkins, Roy, 225, 347
Williamsburg (yacht), 388
Wire-tapping, 58
Wright, Joseph, 627, 894-896
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